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DURING the War the conditions prevailing in the production of war equipment, whereby the United Kingdom manufactured replacement parts for American products and the United States manufactured products to British designs, caused both countries to study each other's standards. This led, in 1943, to the Director of the British Standards Institution going to New York with the object of setting up machinery for co-ordinating the standards of the United Nations as an aid to the war effort and to discuss the formation of a temporary organisation which could act until such time as full international discussions were re-opened.
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International Organisation for Standardisation. Nature 160, 389–390 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/160389a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/160389a0