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"Money machines like cash registers must be changed or converted, and the overall cost of adjusting machinery to decimalisation will cost the country more than 70 million pounds."
As Britain's switch to decimal currency draws ever closer - "Decimal Day" is now just a year away - Bernard Falk looks at some of the techniques being employed to prepare people for the changeover. He asks members of the Decimal Currency Board and business owners if they think that we will be ready.
Clip taken from 24 Hours, originally broadcast on BBC One, 13 February, 1970.
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"Money machines like cash registers must be changed or converted, and the overall cost of adjusting machinery to decimalisation will cost the country more than 70 million pounds."
As Britain's switch to decimal currency draws ever closer - "Decimal Day" is now just a year away - Bernard Falk looks at some of the techniques being employed to prepare people for the changeover. He asks members of the Decimal Currency Board and business owners if they think that we will be ready.
Clip taken from 24 Hours, originally broadcast on BBC One, 13 February, 1970.
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