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justanothername Not any more it doesnit, except in a few small-scale ways still using old plans, etc.
The Statute Mile and Yard are still used for roads distances, speeds and vehicle fuel consumption; the railways still use those plus the Chain. You can still buy a pint of beer or cider dispensed in a pub. Some building and engineering materials are still made in feet and inches.
Otherwise all goods in the UK have to be sold in metric measures; all trade, building, engineering, science etc. use the metric system - or more accurately the SI derivation of the metric system invented in 18C France.
This has been so since I think late-1970s, certainly 1980s. It's mainly now only us oldies of bus-pass age still able to use the Imperial as well as Metric measurements.
Virtually the
only country now using Imperial measures for everyday use, including trade, is the United States of America, though they call them "American" not "Imperial", and their Gallon and Ton are old versions different from those later formalised as the Imperial ones.
I wonder when the USA will change too. I can understand that many Americans resist it by political misconceptions, not-invented-here syndrome, fear of change or plain lack of personal knowledge; but I think she will bow to the inevitable, perhaps within the next few decades, for science, trade and industry.
Ironically the USA may have been fairly near to adopting the newly-invented metric system from France, very early after its Founding.
