A man in an awful hole
26th June 1982, Page 53
26th June 1982
Page 53
Page 53, 26th June 1982
— A man in an awful hole
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ALTHOUGH BAFFLED by the incomprehensible units of measurement that are replacing the civilised British ones with which I have lived for lightyears, there is a new one that I welcome for its graphic homeliness. It is the DDB. This is the volume of a double-deck bus and its author, Geoffrey Read, Manchester's city engineer, is using it to measure cavities.
The biggest hole he has found so far equalled four DDB, closed a main city road for a year and cost nearly £1 million to repair.
It is to be hoped that the DOB will not catch on with dentists, whose charges, as I have recently found, for filling MCC (mini-car cavities) are already astronomical.