... Decimal day Today, at last, is Decimal Day. It has finally caught up with us. A great many of us have undoubtedly been inclined, perhaps too readily, to push the whole business into the back of our minds on the happy assumption that “it will be all right ...

... D (for decimal) Day South Africa changed to a decimal coinage today, With pounds, shillings, and pence becoming rands and cents.—B.U.P. ...

... DECIMAL DAY APPROACHES In six months time decimal currency will be with us and, although Government departments, the Post Office and commercial concerns are already indicating prices in £sd and decimal currency, shopkeepers on the whole are slow off the ...

... Decimal Day Advice For Retailers RETAILERS who change to decimal working on or within a few days after D Day (February 15, 1971) should stock up their tills with more small change than usual for the first few days, but demand will quickly fall off and ...

... BR.’s Plan For Decimal Day WHEN British Rail *go {¥¥ gecimal” on February 14th next year, a day ahead of the rest of the country, there will be no difference in season ticket rates or long distance fares. Short distance fares may go up or down slightly ...

... DECIMAL DAY MAY BE EARLIER An estimate that Britain's changeover period to decimal coinage would not exceed 18 months was made last week by the Decimal Currency Board. People should plan for “D-Day” as February 15, 1971; it was possible that the change ...

... PREPARING FOR “DECIMAL DAY” (1971) Britain’s currency goes decimal on February 15, 1971. The first five and ten “new penny” coins will be issued this year (equivalent to a shilling and a florin respectively) and new decimal coin sets will be sold to the ...

... Security operation on Decimal Day By GEORGE HUME More than a million cheques will be cleared through Scottish banks.during an all-night opera tion on Wednesday at the start of the last but major phase of the decimal change-over cperation which is costing ...

... DECIMAL DAY DRESS REHEARSAL FOR B.R. ORITISH RAIL are going decimal a day early—Sunday, February 14. It's a dress rehearsal to lessen booking office queues on D-day, February 15. Banks will close for four days before D-day. All cheques must then be written ...

... ADVERTISING FEATURE PREPARING FOR DECIMAL DAY 00l 7, The sales tieKet produced by the NCR Change Computation Point 3 cash register itemises the dofl“b&kmdmndfi-Muln‘fimmnduma the amount tendered and the change given. hmmnhsbeenteuderedf«auleot n;;mmmmmum; ...

... Ten years after - Decimal Day February 15, 1971, was the sae o e i o rency, and over from 2sd. Mr But{’s.Govemment.. of the ‘day “have been blamed for- it, but. they were merely inheritors of the Deciprevious Labour A tion. In the first. decimal -decade ...

... All of these coins will be circulating on decimal day. TTHE Decimal Currency Board advise us all to plan now for the conversion to decimal currency. To this end, they have issued a learned paper, “ Machine vending in decimal,” by Mr A. R. Butler, BSc ...