Metric now : your guide to metrication in Singapore
Digitised Book 216.73.216.165 (0)
1976
Information About
Economic survival dictates that Singapore joins the nine-tenths of the world using the metric system of measurement. This guide to metrication in Singapore provides insights to government's effort in making this happen, and contains successful stories from various industries.
Additional Details
- Title
- Metric now : your guide to metrication in Singapore
- Creators
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- Subject
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- Metric system--Singapore
- Publisher
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- Singapore Metrication Board, 1976
- National Library Board Singapore, 1976
- Contributors
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- Singapore. Metrication Board
- Digital Description
- application/pdf, col. ill.
- Provenance
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- Table of Contents
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- making the painful switch less painful -- Manufacturing: it’s an intense market where the slow one will lose out -- Lam Soon reaps new business with the switchover -- Packaging: packing in the vital message to the masses -- A better way to reach out to the world at the metal box -- Everything’s going smoothly as F & N responds promptly to the call -- Avery looks forward to a world-wide swing to metric -- Building and construction: it’s a step in the right direction say the builders -- Engineering: policy of parent firms a key factor to change -- Why going metric is a must at the big shipyards -- Keeping pace at Keppel with a dual system -- Easing the change-over with metric tools -- Retail trade: getting 2 million people to think alike -- Cold Storage: where time and patience win the day -- Oil: a huge task but it’s all systems go -- Metric products -- Acknowledgements -- Advertisers’ index.
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- Copyright
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- All Rights Reserved. National Library Board Singapore 2009.