Metrication Board
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The Metrication Board was a non-departmental public body that existed in the United Kingdom to promote and coordinate metrication within the country and prepare the public for the change. It
It was established in 1969 in the wake of the May 1965 decision by the President of the Board of Trade to convert to the metric system, a decision that resulted from widespread agitation by commerce and industry representatives in favour of the recommendation of the Committee on Weights and Measures (Hodgson Committee) in 1950. In 1980, the Board was wound up to reduce government spending.
Similar bodies were instituted in Canada - the Metric Commission - and South Africa, where the metric system was introduced in 1971, .
