diff --git a/include/boost/numeric/ublas/vector.hpp b/include/boost/numeric/ublas/vector.hpp
index 93a0d45e..25475750 100644
--- a/include/boost/numeric/ublas/vector.hpp
+++ b/include/boost/numeric/ublas/vector.hpp
@@ -32,7 +32,8 @@ namespace boost { namespace numeric { namespace ublas {
 
         // Resizing helper. Allow 'preserve' parameter to be used where possible.
 
-#ifndef BOOST_NO_TEMPLATE_PARTIAL_SPECIALIZATION
+#ifdef REMOVED
+//#ifndef BOOST_NO_TEMPLATE_PARTIAL_SPECIALIZATION
         // ISSUE Overloaded free function templates fail on some compilers!
         // Thanks to Karl Meerbergen for the functor workaround which we use by default
         template <class T>
@@ -61,7 +62,10 @@ namespace boost { namespace numeric { namespace ublas {
         void resize (T& a, typename T::size_type size, bool preserve) {
             a.resize (size, preserve);
         }
-        // Specialise for std::vector
+        /* ISSUE Specialise for std::vector
+         * however compilers without template partial specialization (MSVC-6/7)
+         * also think this is bjam uBLAS_test ambiguous when std::vector is used!
+         */
         template<class T>
         BOOST_UBLAS_INLINE
         void resize (std::vector<T> &a, typename std::vector<T>::size_type size, bool /* preserve */) {