candian or mercury speedometers

[fordman]

does your guys bumps have km on the speedometers? i dont think american trucks started having them until the dentside era. along with mph.

[mark F-100]

Had a 69 F-100 years ago, bought in Canada it was miles per hour.We didn't see that funny Km per hour until later on. All our vehicles are Km per hour now.Funny thing is a lot of people still talk miles per hour and miles per gal. Just another thought, I can drive further on a gal. of gas then you because our gal is a little bigger. Why has it been always that way?

[fordman]

imperial gallons vs other types of gallons i guess.

[two-bit]

"Because the sun never sets on the British empire"....just a guess.
For those of you who don't know...
An Imperial Gallon is 5 qts
An American gallon is 4 qts

Why the difference, no idea?

Two-bit

[Oren09]

Odd... I thought quart meant quarter- as in one fourth of a gallon. Those odd Brits

[Ranchero50]

Ever drink a true British pint of ale? It's a big quart glass of the smoothest 'F' you up juicein the world. Drinks like coolade...

Jamie

[mk]

The speedos up here were mph until about '77. They started brainwashing the kids with metric textbooks a couple of years earlier. Metric speedometers were available earlier for the export vehicles, though.


mike