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  1. 05-20-2015 02:54 PM #8
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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter Laidlericon View Post
    Has anyone encountered centinches yet?
    We have had 1000s of engineering railway drawings updated from the original blue prints some going back to the 1930s in to CAD, and we do see converted metric drawings with the occasional decimal measurement remaining.

    One of these was "chains", I suppose the chap didn't know what it was and left the original term... for 22yds
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