"BL" wrote:

I read somewhere (you can probably find reference to it via
Google) that Yard-O-Led was so named because their pencils were
designed to carry 12 3-inch (ergo a yard of) leads.

| All pencils contain one yard of lead (12 x 3 inch leads), hence
| the name Yard-O-Led

http://www.filofax.co.uk/corpsales/SEURLF/ASP/SFS/SFE/yardo.htm

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Steve

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