>In article <75c641b84f%%Rail@greywall.demon.co.uk>,
>Graeme Wall greywall.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>>>> In message
>>>> yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>

>>>>> "Chris Tolley" supanet.com> wrote in message
>>>>> news:1elluliiz4796$.rdlhm236k4b0.dlg@40tude.net...

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>>>>>> 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.
>