'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?
>
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