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THE annual general meeting of the British Standards Institution was held at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers on June 4, under the chairmanship of Mr. W. Reavell. In reporting on the progress of the work during his year of office, Mr. Reavell made reference to the arbitration in connexion with the standards to be adopted in Great Britain for the 16-mm. sound films which, at the invitation of the General Council, Lord Riverdale had undertaken in February last, and the decision of which is now being loyally adopted throughout the industry. Mention was also made of the forthcoming visit of the director to New York and the Argentine in connexion with the work of the newly formed Argentine Institute for the Rationalisation of Materials. At the luncheon which followed the meeting, Lord Riverdale referred to the very economic manner in which the work is carried out, dealing as it now does with some eight hundred committees and more than a thousand meetings a year. Some people fear that standardisation means stagnation, but this is provided against in the precautions the B.S.I, takes when standards are brought into being and in the frequent review and revision of those standards. Industry does not fully appreciate the value of standardisation in the matter of capital expenditure. It means the possibility of reduction of stocks which in turn means liberating capital, and this might amount to millions of pounds in the British Empire.
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British Standards Institution. Nature 137, 979 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137979b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/137979b0