Posted by TOG@Toil on August 14, 2008, 8:45 am
> Conversely, I visualise the unit of a gallon as the contents of one of
> the 5l petrol cans in the garage.
<G>
Yes, me too. And five gallons, or 23 litres, is a jerrican.
Posted by Scraggy on August 14, 2008, 11:55 am
TOG@Toil wrote:
>>
>> Conversely, I visualise the unit of a gallon as the contents of one
>> of the 5l petrol cans in the garage.
>>
> <G>
> Yes, me too. And five gallons, or 23 litres, is a jerrican.
BA uses 20 ltr gerrycans. Always has.
Do you think that Uncle Adolf would have tolerated cans containing such a
'not korrekt' amount?
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Posted by boots on August 15, 2008, 3:12 am
On 15 Aug 2008 00:12:57 GMT in uk.rec.motorcycles,
crn@NOSPAM.netunix.com says:
>>
>> Even the Americans will have to come round eventually like the rest of
>> the industry does.... and maybe stop planes falling out the sky when the
>> pilot does the sums wrong when he orders his fuel in litres but works
>> out the comsumption in gallons (or even US gallons ffs)....
>Errrm - Airliners load fuel in tonnes (metric ton = 1000kg) which are
>almost the same size as imperial tons.
Is that everyone apart from the Canadians then?
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> the 5l petrol cans in the garage.