STANDARDIZATION 43 



adoption by hook manufacturers of a uni- 

 versally applicable standardization of hooks. 

 It would seem to be so particularly to be 

 desired from their point of view. 



Hook manufacturers, it appears, are a 

 peculiar and very independent class of people, 

 and I have been told in several quarters that 

 attempts to standardize hooks on a common- 

 sense basis would not meet with encourage- 

 ment from the people who are responsible for 

 their manufacture. The reason for this is 

 wrapped in the profoundest obscurity. 



Nevertheless, I have been able after no 

 little trouble, it is true through the good 

 offices of Mr. John Forrest, of 24, Thomas 

 Street, London, W., to get hooks made which 

 are not only of unimpeachable shape and 

 general quality, but are graded in a uniform, 

 logical, and intelligible series. 



The idea was to replace the whole confused 

 and confusing system of notation by one which 

 would have no reference whatever to numbers 

 or letters, but only to definite measurements 

 in terms of inches. There may be and under 

 the circumstances it is quite natural that there 

 should be different conceptions of the size of 



