Re: British weight measures

[Bill Mounce <bmounce@bellatlantic.net>]

Could it be a quarter of a cwt?

Jerome Yuzyk wrote:

> only tangentially Alpine-related:
>
> I was reading about the history of Humber and there was reference made to
> the weight of one of their cars being    26 cwt 2 qr   . I've seen the
> 'cwt' measure listed in Rootes literature but have never got around to
> asking what it meant, and now this 'qr' measure. Anybody?
>
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