The Metrication Board in the United Kingdom was a Quango that existed between 1969 and 1980, when it was wound up to reduce government spending.
Its purpose was to promote and coordinate metrication within the country and prepare the public for the change. It was established 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.
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