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The Metric Martyrs was a British advocacy group who campaigned for the freedom to choose what units of measurement are used by traders. The group believed that vendors should have the freedom to mark their goods with imperial weights and measurements alone. This opposes the current legal position that imperial units may be used so long as metric units are also displayed.

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rdfs:comment	Die Metric Martyrs waren eine englische Bürgerinitiative, die sich gegen die Durchsetzung des metrischen Maßsystems und für den Erhalt des imperialen Systems einsetzte. Vorsitzender war Neil Herron. (de) The Metric Martyrs was a British advocacy group who campaigned for the freedom to choose what units of measurement are used by traders. The group believed that vendors should have the freedom to mark their goods with imperial weights and measurements alone. This opposes the current legal position that imperial units may be used so long as metric units are also displayed. (en)
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Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage	Metrication opposition Political advocacy groups in the United Kingdom Metrication in the United Kingdom Metrication opposition House of Lords Early day motion Member of Parliament Ell City of Sunderland Gordon Brown Thoburn v Sunderland City Council Legal history of the United Kingdom Magna Carta Trading Standards Institute London quarter Acts of Union 1707 Ed Miliband European Commission European Communities Act 1972 (UK) European Court of Human Rights Directive 80/181/EEC The Crown Advocacy group John, King of England Philip Davies Imperial units Metrication in the United Kingdom Unit of measurement Halberget Divisional Court Act of Union 1707 Conditional discharge Selvedge Weights and Measures Acts of the United Kingdom
Link from a Wikipage to an external page	http://metricmartyrs.co.uk/
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has abstract	Die Metric Martyrs waren eine englische Bürgerinitiative, die sich gegen die Durchsetzung des metrischen Maßsystems und für den Erhalt des imperialen Systems einsetzte. Vorsitzender war Neil Herron. (de) The Metric Martyrs was a British advocacy group who campaigned for the freedom to choose what units of measurement are used by traders. The group believed that vendors should have the freedom to mark their goods with imperial weights and measurements alone. This opposes the current legal position that imperial units may be used so long as metric units are also displayed. The advocacy group was formed by individuals who had been accused of offences related to selling loose produce using imperial measures, including not displaying metric signage, and for using unstamped weighing machines (which had had their stamps removed by the authorities). Newspapers dubbed the group the "metric martyrs" after Chris Howell, then weights and measures spokesman for the Institute of Trading Standards Administration (today the Trading Standards Institute), said that they could martyr themselves if they wanted to. (en)
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is Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage of	Eleanor Sharpston Metrication opposition US Metric Association 1994 Dagenham by-election Thoburn v Sunderland City Council Anthony Bennett (Veritas politician) Metric Martyr Metric martirs Metric martyr Metrication in the United Kingdom Michael Shrimpton Implied repeal European units of measurement directives Euroscepticism in the United Kingdom UK Metric Association Metric martyrs

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