• British Standards (BS) are the standards produced by the BSI Group which is incorporated under a royal charter and which is formally designated as the...
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  • later adopted as a British Standard. It was the world's first national screw thread standard, and is the basis for many other standards, such as BSF, BSP...
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  • British Standard Pipe (BSP) is a set of technical standards for screw threads that has been adopted internationally for interconnecting and sealing pipes...
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  • British Standards are the standards produced by BSI Group which is incorporated under a Royal Charter (and which is formally designated as the National...
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  • the 55 degree Whitworth thread form. It was introduced by the British Engineering Standards Association in 1908. The table provides BSF sizes, the threads...
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    The British Standards Institution (BSI) is the national standards body of the United Kingdom. BSI produces technical standards on a wide range of products...
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  • A standards organization, standards body, standards developing organization (SDO), or standards setting organization (SSO) is an organization whose primary...
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  • (RP) is the accent traditionally regarded as the standard and most prestigious form of spoken British English. For over a century, there has been argument...
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    official standards arose to enable the interchange of compatible devices. British standards have proliferated throughout large parts of the former British Empire...
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    in American bars, a pastime which spread to Britain by the early 1960s. In the years following, the British game diverged from the American in equipment...
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