Re: Mileage Calculation
I lived in France for two years in the early 60's and then Germany for one year. Everything was in litres and kilometers. I got over to your island once, but don't remember what the signs said - just glad I wasn't driving!!
Funny story: although tanks were usually sent by rail, for some reason I don't now recall, I was driving a tractor trailer pulling it from the Chech border back almost to Kyserslaughten. (sp) I was in a convoy, but got lost from it. Hurry up, slow down - and you go around a corner, come to a fork, and cannot see the convoy in front or in back, and you take a guess and take the wrong fork.
Anyway, about 3AM I am downtown, in a little bitty German town, stopped, trying to figure out where I was on the map. The local policeman is holleren at me in German for having that rig in their downtown area. He finally cooled down and we figured out how I could get from where I was back to the main drag, and he helped me find a place to turn around. All the while I am worried the US is wonderen if I have absconded with their mutimiillon piece of property and whether I am going to get in trouble. Well, as it turned out, the convy was a total flop, and many got lost, just not with a tank in back. The guy leading the convoy didn't pace it right.
I lived in France for two years in the early 60's and then Germany for one year. Everything was in litres and kilometers. I got over to your island once, but don't remember what the signs said - just glad I wasn't driving!!
Funny story: although tanks were usually sent by rail, for some reason I don't now recall, I was driving a tractor trailer pulling it from the Chech border back almost to Kyserslaughten. (sp) I was in a convoy, but got lost from it. Hurry up, slow down - and you go around a corner, come to a fork, and cannot see the convoy in front or in back, and you take a guess and take the wrong fork.
Anyway, about 3AM I am downtown, in a little bitty German town, stopped, trying to figure out where I was on the map. The local policeman is holleren at me in German for having that rig in their downtown area. He finally cooled down and we figured out how I could get from where I was back to the main drag, and he helped me find a place to turn around. All the while I am worried the US is wonderen if I have absconded with their mutimiillon piece of property and whether I am going to get in trouble. Well, as it turned out, the convy was a total flop, and many got lost, just not with a tank in back. The guy leading the convoy didn't pace it right.
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