Don't forget rods, gills, pottles, etc.
Jan Eyerman
(in New Jersey, USA)
Bill Mounce <bmounce@bellatlantic.net> wrote:
Vic, can you now fill us in on pitches, chains, furlongs and leagues? God, I
miss the Imperial system! Bill in plain old Pennsylvania.
Victor Hughes wrote:
> 'Cwt' is the abbreviation for 'hundredweight', which equals 112 pounds
> (abbreviation = lbs). qr is the abbrevaiation for 'quarter' which means
1/4
> of a hundredweight which equals 28 lbs. Don't ask why they say 2 quarters
> rather than a half - a 'half' is a beer measurement. Incidentally, one
> half of a qr is a stone (st = 14 lbs) which is how the english quote their
> personal weight eg 'I weigh 8 stone' (not 112 pounds as our American
cousins
> would say). So 26 cwt 2 qr equals 26 by 112 lbs plus 2 by 28 lbs. All
> weights Imperial
>
> Are you confused enough yet?
>
> Vic, from Australia where we had these measurements until converting to
> metric in the 1970's
>
> S3 Alpine, originally registered as 20 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?
> >
> > --
> >
> > = J e r o m e Y u z y k | jerome@supernet.ab.ca
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