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The current '''British Weights and Measures Association''', or '''BWMA''', is an ] established in the United Kingdom (UK) in 1995, founded by Vivian Linacre.<ref name="DANGO">{{cite web | last = | first =| authorlink = | coauthors = | title = Database of archives of Non Governmental Organisations – BWMA | work = | publisher = DANGO | date = 17 April 2007 | url = http://www.dango.bham.ac.uk/record_details.asp?id=831&recordType=ngo | format = | doi = | accessdate = 17 August 2007 }}</ref> The current body was established in 1995, but there had also been a predecessor organisation, also called the BWMA, that was established in 1904, and lapsed after the First World War.
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==Aim of the BWMA==
The BWMA's stated aim is to uphold the freedom to use the ] and to oppose the compulsory imposition of the ] in the UK. By the time of the modern BWMA's founding in 1995, British schoolchildren had been educated using only metric measures since 1974 (earlier in some places), and British industry had changed to using metric tools and equipment during the 1980s and were in most cases manufacturing to metric standards since about that time.

===Campaigns===
* BWMA maintain that people should be free to use the metric system if they want, but that it should not be forced upon them.<ref name="PRN123374">
{{cite press release
| title = British Weights & Measures Association – Annual Awards
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| url = http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/cgi/news/release?id=123374
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* BWMA campaigns against the metrication of road signs<ref></ref> and in 2009 published their response<ref></ref> to a consultation hosted by the UK's Department for Transport which discussed a proposal to require compulsory dual Metric/Imperial signage of height limits and width limits. BWMA's responded that dual-units signage should not be made compulsory, and that the legal provisions (from the 1980s) allowing voluntary dual-units signage should be repealed so that only Imperial units could be displayed. This, the BWMA claimed, was to "avoid confusion." (However, the BWMA also asserts that people should be free to choose whichever measurement system that they find most convenient.)

* BWMA support the ] – a group of traders prosecuted for their defiance of the ]<ref></ref> and the ].<ref></ref>

* BWMA gives detailed advice on how traders can circumvent regulations mandating metric weights and measures.<ref></ref>

* BWMA members have published a number of books arguing for customary measures. These include ''The General Rule'' by BWMA President Vivian Linacre (Squeeze Press) and ''About the Size of It'' by ].

*The BWMA has published a "rogues' gallery" of those they label "Metric Culprits." These include a long list of individuals and bodies that have advocated or supported metrication, including the Irish Minister for Transport, Martin Cullen, who metricated road signs in ] in 2005.<ref></ref>

===Opposition===
*These actions contrast with the ] (UKMA), which campaigns for compulsory ] for all legal and official purposes, including trade and road signs.

==Patrons and honorary members==

===Patrons===
* ]<ref name="BWMA001"/> (1930–2008)
* Vice-Admiral Sir Louis Le Bailly (1915–2010)<ref name="BWMA001"/>
* ]<ref name="BWMA001"/> (1923–2012)
* ] (1932–2011)<ref name="BWMA001">
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* ]<ref name="BWMA001"/> (b. 1931)
* ]<ref name="BWMA001"/> (b. 1952)
* ] (1923–2011)<ref name="PM Letter">
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* ]<ref name="PM Letter"/> (b. 1937)
* ]<ref name="BWMA001"/> (b. 1955)
* ]<ref name="BWMA001"/> (b. 1922)
* ]<ref name="BWMA001"/> (1926–2008 )
* ]<ref name="PM Letter"/> (b. 1937)
* ]<ref name="BWMA001"/> (b. 1930)
* ]<ref name="PM Letter"/>
* ]<ref name="PM Letter"/> (b. 1944)
* ]<ref name="BWMA001"/> (b. 1937)
* ]<ref name="BWMA001"/> (1920–2010)
* ]<ref name="BWMA001"/> (1925–2008)
* ]<ref name="PM Letter"/> (b. 1927)
* ]<ref name="BWMA001"/> (b. 1960)
* ]<ref name="BWMA001"/> (b. 1951)
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* ]<ref name="PM Letter"/> (b. 1958)
* ]<ref name="PM Letter"/> (1946–2011)
* ]<ref name="BWMA001"/> (b. 1937)
* Dr. James Le Fanu<ref name="PM Letter"/> (b. 1950)<ref></ref>
* ]<ref name="PM Letter"/> (b. 1942)
* ]<ref name="BWMA001"/> (b. 1943)
* ]<ref name="BWMA001"/> (b. 1941)
* ]<ref name="PM Letter"/> (1945–2013)
* ]<ref name="BWMA001"/> (b. 1932)
* ]<ref name="BWMA001"/> (b. 1939)
* William Poole<ref name="PM Letter"/>
* ]<ref name="PM Letter"/> (b. 1944)
* ]<ref name="PM Letter"/> (b. 1963)
* ]<ref name="BWMA001"/> (b. 1965)
* ]<ref name="PM Letter"/> (b. 1937)
* ]<ref name="PM Letter"/> (b. 1951)
* ]<ref name="PM Letter"/> (1929–2009)
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==Notes==
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==References==
* ] (2007). ''About the Size of It: The Common Sense Approach to Measuring Things'', ], ISBN 978-0-230-01628-6
* Linacre, Vivian (2007). ''The General Rule: A Guide to Customary Weights and Measures '', The Squeeze Press, ISBN 978-1-906069-01-8

==External links==
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