Hi
I just thought I would post a picture of some of the Micrometres I have now put in their boxes they are now like me retired from the world of work. At the centre top is the one inch Brit Moore and Wright and at the centre bottom is the Starrett one/two inch with its one inch trial piece and bow size adjustment from your part of the world incidentally this is the only micrometre I have ever owned that could walk usually overnight to other peoples benches and sometimes toolboxes. This micrometre was given to a family member who was working on the ‘Rolls Royce Merlin’ engines at a time when we Brits had a falling out with our German cousins by one of your Air Force Engineers and he always said that ‘it was like being given a gold bar and dam it he even said that they had dozens of them.’ In fact when I owned it and used it at work it was given the name the ‘American’ or the short version starting in y and ending in k I am sure you know the one because its accuracy was second to none it sort of became the final arbiter for size. It also was keeper of what the apprentices would call those ‘idiotic inch fraction things!’ as you can see from the picture they are engraved on each side of the Micrometres bow. Left and right is the favoured Japanese Micrometre maker nowadays Mitutoyo these two micrometres are from the changeover period we Brits had to go through the one on the right is inch and the left with the thimble mechanism is milometers and after going through the angst of the changeover I will admit now that working in Metric is on the whole easier but I fought against it all the way, just shows how wrong you can be.
