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Graeme Wall wrote: In message wrote: "Chris Tolley" wrote in message ... Yes, but you appear to have forgotten the convention for writing the amounts down. It would be either "1s 3d" or "1/3". If one of your Thought it would also have been set off as 1' 3". As someone else has pointed out, for angles, but not, in my experience, for monetary values. Remember the default was 3 values, pounds, shilling and pence, the use of ' and " wouldn't allow that. Though admittedly I was only 12 on D-Day, I don't remember ever seeing or learning the 1'3" format Hounslow3 mentions. I'm certain that " was never used for pence. On greengrocers' signs prices might have been shown as 1'3 per lb, for instance, but the triangular apostrophe-like thing was really a stylised form of the diagonal stroke (solidus I think it's called ?) in 1/3. On the other hand as far as I recall, prices like 1/3d were not uncommon in shop windows, even though not technically correct. I'd tend to agree from memory as a nipper in New Zealand, as well... though after 41 years (as of Thurday 10 July -- DC Day's anniversary) who's to say what was exactly on signs! |
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On Tue, 1 Jul 2008 13:13:12 GMT, "Dik T. Winter"
wrote: I can't remember ever having seen a cheque used in the Netherlands. But I know that cashing them can be a problem, so much so that cashing a cheque that I received for a refund from the US would cost me more than its value. On the other hand, you won't find an "acceptgiro" in use in the UK. That probably explains the lower use of cheques in NL, apart from the low limit from the old days of NLG300 for the then Eurocheques? -- Old anti-spam address cmylod at despammed dot com appears broke So back to cmylod at bigfoot dot com |
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Graeme Wall wrote: In message wrote: "Chris Tolley" wrote in message ... Yes, but you appear to have forgotten the convention for writing the amounts down. It would be either "1s 3d" or "1/3". If one of your Thought it would also have been set off as 1' 3". As someone else has pointed out, for angles, but not, in my experience, for monetary values. Remember the default was 3 values, pounds, shilling and pence, the use of ' and " wouldn't allow that. Though admittedly I was only 12 on D-Day, I don't remember ever seeing or learning the 1'3" format Hounslow3 mentions. I'm certain that " was never used for pence. On greengrocers' signs prices might have been shown as 1'3 per lb, for instance, but the triangular apostrophe-like thing was really a stylised form of the diagonal stroke (solidus I think it's called ?) in 1/3. On the other hand as far as I recall, prices like 1/3d were not uncommon in shop windows, even though not technically correct. I'd tend to agree from memory as a nipper in New Zealand, as well... though after 41 years (as of Thurday 10 July -- DC Day's anniversary) who's to say what was exactly on signs! |
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![]() "Colum Mylod" wrote On the other hand, you won't find an "acceptgiro" in use in the UK. Girobank used to offer this sort of service - to pay money to someone you filled in and signed a Transfer slip, including the account number of the account you wanted to credit, and sent it to Girobank. It never really caught on, except for payments e.g. to utilities, who sent with their bill a Transfer slip, filled in with their account number, and you had to complete it including your account number of the account to be debited. In any event it could only be used when both parties maintained Girobank accounts. Apart from that most people used Girobank as a normal cheque account, and since Girobank has been taken over by Alliance & Leicester the Transfer slip system has been abolished. Peter |
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On Jul 4, 7:57*am, "Peter Masson" wrote:
"Colum Mylod" wrote On the other hand, you won't find an "acceptgiro" in use in the UK. Girobank used to offer this sort of service - to pay money to someone you filled in and signed a Transfer slip, including the account number of the account you wanted to credit, and sent it to Girobank. It never really caught on, except for payments e.g. to utilities, who sent with their bill a Transfer slip, filled in with their account number, and you had to complete it including your account number of the account to be debited. In any event it could only be used when both parties maintained Girobank accounts. Apart from that most people used Girobank as a normal cheque account, and since Girobank has been taken over by Alliance & Leicester the Transfer slip system has been abolished. I actually used a Girobank transfer slip to pay in a shop a couple of times (Woolworths I think). They looked at me a bit oddly, but it was accepted and went through OK. |
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![]() "Nobody" wrote in message ... Years ago when the Canadian dollar was trading in the region of 70-75 US cents, the finance chair of our (apartment) strata corporation began separating out Yankee quarters from the cash inserted in the complex's laundry machines. She'd amassed a considerable number of 25-cent pieces (replacing the value of submitted Ammurican quarters with equivalent Canadian two-bit pieces so the corporation's books balanced). She knew I was about to visit Seattle, and asked if I'd cart the loot across the line and Make A Profit by exchanging the US quarters for Green Back paper. Any bank I approached, refused to accept the large numbers of coins as I wasn't/we weren't a customer. I finally found one that accepted the metal, although at a "discount" to handle the loose change... so I ended up basically with paper/bills worth the same "face value" of the original mass of coins in Canadian dollars anyway. The problem was that I could barely pick up the money and had to put it in a large rucksack to get it there. I got over £80 even with the ripoff. But it would require about 9 million people to do something similar to add up to the three quarters of a (presumably American) billion suggested. I am not one of them any more. Next time, roll them and take them to a grocery store. . |
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