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Graeme Wall wrote:
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"Chris Tolley" wrote in message
...

Yes, but you appear to have forgotten the convention for writing the
amounts down. It would be either "1s 3d" or "1/3". If one of your

Thought it would also have been set off as 1' 3".

As someone else has pointed out, for angles, but not, in my experience, for
monetary values. Remember the default was 3 values, pounds, shilling and
pence, the use of ' and " wouldn't allow that.

Though admittedly I was only 12 on D-Day, I don't remember ever seeing
or learning the 1'3" format Hounslow3 mentions. I'm certain that " was
never used for pence. On greengrocers' signs prices might have been
shown as 1'3 per lb, for instance, but the triangular apostrophe-like
thing was really a stylised form of the diagonal stroke (solidus I think
it's called ?) in 1/3.

On the other hand as far as I recall, prices like 1/3d were not uncommon
in shop windows, even though not technically correct.


I'd tend to agree from memory as a nipper in New Zealand, as well...
though after 41 years (as of Thurday 10 July -- DC Day's anniversary)
who's to say what was exactly on signs!

On Tue, 1 Jul 2008 13:13:12 GMT, "Dik T. Winter"
wrote:

I can't remember ever having seen a cheque used in the Netherlands. But
I know that cashing them can be a problem, so much so that cashing a
cheque that I received for a refund from the US would cost me more than
its value.

On the other hand, you won't find an "acceptgiro" in use in the UK.
That probably explains the lower use of cheques in NL, apart from the
low limit from the old days of NLG300 for the then Eurocheques?

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In article ,
Graeme Wall wrote:
In message
wrote:

"Chris Tolley" wrote in message
...

Yes, but you appear to have forgotten the convention for writing the
amounts down. It would be either "1s 3d" or "1/3". If one of your

Thought it would also have been set off as 1' 3".

As someone else has pointed out, for angles, but not, in my experience, for
monetary values. Remember the default was 3 values, pounds, shilling and
pence, the use of ' and " wouldn't allow that.

Though admittedly I was only 12 on D-Day, I don't remember ever seeing
or learning the 1'3" format Hounslow3 mentions. I'm certain that " was
never used for pence. On greengrocers' signs prices might have been
shown as 1'3 per lb, for instance, but the triangular apostrophe-like
thing was really a stylised form of the diagonal stroke (solidus I think
it's called ?) in 1/3.

On the other hand as far as I recall, prices like 1/3d were not uncommon
in shop windows, even though not technically correct.


I'd tend to agree from memory as a nipper in New Zealand, as well...
though after 41 years (as of Thurday 10 July -- DC Day's anniversary)
who's to say what was exactly on signs!

In article EMOVE writes:
On Tue, 1 Jul 2008 13:13:12 GMT, "Dik T. Winter"
wrote:
I can't remember ever having seen a cheque used in the Netherlands. But
I know that cashing them can be a problem, so much so that cashing a
cheque that I received for a refund from the US would cost me more than
its value.

On the other hand, you won't find an "acceptgiro" in use in the UK.
That probably explains the lower use of cheques in NL, apart from the
low limit from the old days of NLG300 for the then Eurocheques?

I do not think so. I do not know when the "acceptgiro" was introduced, but
since I have a regular job (1969), everything was handled with money
transfers between my account and the other account. When I got my salary
it was transfered to my account. When I had to pay something I filled in
a form to transfer money from my account to another account, and did send
it to my bank. The only difference between this and the pre-1980 period
was that my salary for my part-time jobs was paid in cash.

The acceptgiro was only a simplification of the standard way to do things:
fill in a form and send it to your bank; the acceptgiro had many parts
already pre-filled.

I think the main reason is that already late in the fifties, early in the
sixties, nearly everybody had an account with a bank to transfer money with.
I got mine when I was 17 years old. I could cash in from that account at
many places (the nearest sigarshop would be possible many times), put into
that account in the same places. Pay bills with regular money transfers,
and so on.
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home: bovenover 215, 1025 jn amsterdam, nederland; http://www.cwi.nl/~dik/

"Colum Mylod" wrote

On the other hand, you won't find an "acceptgiro" in use in the UK.

Girobank used to offer this sort of service - to pay money to someone you
filled in and signed a Transfer slip, including the account number of the
account you wanted to credit, and sent it to Girobank. It never really
caught on, except for payments e.g. to utilities, who sent with their bill a
Transfer slip, filled in with their account number, and you had to complete
it including your account number of the account to be debited. In any event
it could only be used when both parties maintained Girobank accounts. Apart
from that most people used Girobank as a normal cheque account, and since
Girobank has been taken over by Alliance & Leicester the Transfer slip
system has been abolished.

Peter

On Jul 4, 7:57*am, "Peter Masson" wrote:
"Colum Mylod" wrote



On the other hand, you won't find an "acceptgiro" in use in the UK.

Girobank used to offer this sort of service - to pay money to someone you
filled in and signed a Transfer slip, including the account number of the
account you wanted to credit, and sent it to Girobank. It never really
caught on, except for payments e.g. to utilities, who sent with their bill a
Transfer slip, filled in with their account number, and you had to complete
it including your account number of the account to be debited. In any event
it could only be used when both parties maintained Girobank accounts. Apart
from that most people used Girobank as a normal cheque account, and since
Girobank has been taken over by Alliance & Leicester the Transfer slip
system has been abolished.

I actually used a Girobank transfer slip to pay in a shop a couple of
times (Woolworths I think). They looked at me a bit oddly, but it was
accepted and went through OK.

"Nobody" wrote in message
...

Years ago when the Canadian dollar was trading in the region of 70-75
US cents, the finance chair of our (apartment) strata corporation
began separating out Yankee quarters from the cash inserted in the
complex's laundry machines.

She'd amassed a considerable number of 25-cent pieces (replacing the
value of submitted Ammurican quarters with equivalent Canadian two-bit
pieces so the corporation's books balanced).

She knew I was about to visit Seattle, and asked if I'd cart the loot
across the line and Make A Profit by exchanging the US quarters for
Green Back paper.

Any bank I approached, refused to accept the large numbers of coins as
I wasn't/we weren't a customer.

I finally found one that accepted the metal, although at a "discount"
to handle the loose change... so I ended up basically with paper/bills
worth the same "face value" of the original mass of coins in Canadian
dollars anyway.

The problem was that I could barely pick up the money and had to put
it in a large rucksack to get it there. I got over £80 even with the
ripoff.

But it would require about 9 million people to do something similar to
add up to the three quarters of a (presumably American) billion
suggested. I am not one of them any more.


Next time, roll them and take them to a grocery store. .