CMP fuel tank sizes

[Grant Bowker]

Regardless of my thoughts on Brexit (it seems a bit odd to be committing to something without knowing what you are comitting to, did the UK join the EU without knowing the terms?), I feel that since CMPs were designed in inches (and fractions?) in most cases it makes sense to discuss them in the units they were designed in. On the other hand, I feel vehicles designed in metric should normally be discussed in metric.


On second thought, perhaps the blind commitment to leave the EU isn't so odd, every few years we put an X on a ballot and trust that politicians (of many parties) will honestly represent us in a responsible fashion.... and unfortunately few of them do so once elected.

[Tony Smith]

Originally Posted by Grant Bowker

I feel that since CMPs were designed in inches (and fractions?) in most cases it makes sense to discuss them in the units they were designed in.

Exactly.

Excuse my Brexit comment, it was a good-natured poke at a topical subject. As I have explained in a couple of PMs I received on the matter, it was in no way meant to be a criticism or rejection of our European members.

We are custodians of historic vehicles, and the obligation is on us to try and keep that history as accurate as possible in preservation. I would hate to see some restorer in the year 2045 quote that "CMPs were an unusual combination of SAE, Whitworth and Metric systems".

I have worked on other projects that were designed using Imperial measurements, and while it totally did my head in trying to work out how many 2 13/64" boards went into a 6'7" panel, it worked out in the end because that was the system that it was designed to work with in the first place.

As Cliff started this thread with the intention of scaling parts for a model, I can fully understand the simplicity of the mathematics when working with Metric measurements to give dimensions for 1/35 or 1/43 models. It just makes thing easy.