A sawmill on the Queen’s Sandringham estate in Norfolk has been rapped over the knuckles for primarily using imperial measures on its oak and teak products.
A trading standards officer visiting Sandringham Mill discovered timber labels showing imperial measures first, followed by the metric equivalent in smaller type.
EC regulations stipulate that metric measurements must be more prominent than imperial.
The mill, which now plans to sell in metres, was also found to be without a metric measuring stick.
Mill manager Peter Borner said that imperial measures were shown because a lot of customers were ‘retired and didn’t understand metric’.
Trading Standards said the Queen did not have ‘crown immunity’ and had to change the labels or face a fine.
