Woodshire Bill posted:Blame it all on the Founding Fathers. When we had our Revolution, we should have also broken from the British measurement system and followed our allies, the French, and adopted the metric system, everything down to even hundredths of a meter. Washington could have done it by "executive order".
It sure would have made life simpler, but imagine how much less interesting discussions would have become.
but the French use 1.43.5, as do the British, so no use blaming Europeans then for 1/4'' scale