Mystery car badges

**Chops** · 9th February 2016, 05:14 PM

Looking at it, it seems to have a wheel on it, could it possibly be from an old motor bike?

**p38arover** · 9th February 2016, 06:06 PM

I thought the same but the top looks like a steering wheel.

If anyone will know, it will be someone on Hemmings FB page https://www.facebook.com/HemmingsNews

I'm not on FB so I can't see their page.

**WedWon** · 9th February 2016, 06:57 PM

I found it!

Purely by accident - google browsing

It's part of a four piece badge on the bonnet of an Austin Atlantic

See?

**numpty** · 9th February 2016, 07:32 PM

Originally Posted by ramblingboy42

the tape is definitely a museum piece too.....we stopped using inches in 1974.

'76

**WedWon** · 9th February 2016, 07:34 PM

1974 is metric for 1976

Hanha

**Bytemrk** · 9th February 2016, 07:34 PM

Originally Posted by ramblingboy42

the tape is definitely a museum piece too.....we stopped using inches in 1974.

Tell that to the blokes that sell us tyres

**JDNSW** · 10th February 2016, 06:03 AM

Originally Posted by WedWon

I found it!

Purely by accident - google browsing

It's part of a four piece badge on the bonnet of an Austin Atlantic

And a lot of other Austin models - see the Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin_Motor_Company

Probably from an early model where the badge was cast with the wings separate.

John

**Redback** · 10th February 2016, 06:54 AM

Originally Posted by numpty

'76

75

**JDNSW** · 10th February 2016, 09:38 AM

Originally Posted by Redback

75

Science had been using metric units since before federation, but the following are a few key dates:-
1947 - use of metric units became legal
1965 - pharmaceutical industry converted
1970 - Metric Conversion board established
1971 - wool industry changed
1972 - all primary schools teaching metric system only
1973 - all secondary schools using metric system
1974 - many industries changed - road signs July 1st
1976 - building and construction industry completed a two year transition
1977 - All packaged goods required to be labelled in metric units. Most remaining industries converted
1987 - real estate industry converted
1988 - metric system becomes the only legal measurement system in Australia.

But there are residual uses of Imperial units which are likely to remain for a long time. Examples include the use of inches in rim diameters and specification of altitude in feet in aviation, both of which are used virtually worldwide, despite the fact that virtually the only non-metric country in the world is the USA.

It is often stated that the use of nautical miles in navigation is also a hangover of Imperial measurements, but in fact this is an accepted international measurement used in many treaties and is also accepted by the BIPM the international body that administers metric units.

John

**p38arover** · 10th February 2016, 09:45 AM

Originally Posted by JDNSW

It is often stated that the use of nautical miles in navigation is also a hangover of Imperial measurements, but in fact this is an accepted international measurement used in many treaties and is also accepted by the BIPM the international body that administers metric units.

John

If I recall correctly from my playing with navigational charts in OTC/Telstra as Marine Manager, it was the distance subtended by an arc of 1 minute on a meridian of the earth.

Wait....

Here we are: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nautical_mile

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