PART IIMATERIALS AND PRINCIPLES OF CONSTRUCTION AND MARKING OF MEASURES OF LENGTH

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Every measure of length shall be conspicuously, legibly and durably marked (in the case of a flexible measure, near the beginning of the measure) with the following items—

a

on each graduated side, its nominal length expressed in one only of the following units of measurement in full or by means of one of the following abbreviations or symbols only:—

metre

m

centimetre

cm

millimetre

mm

yard

yd

foot

ft

inch

in;

b

the name or trade mark of the manufacturer of the measure; and

c

its tractive force, if it is a flexible measure with a nominal length exceeding five metres in metric units or ten feet in imperial units.