This may confuse everyone even more.
I work at a printing company where I buy paper by the "cwt". It is translated to
"hundred weight" but in the paper industry it is equal to 100 U.S. pounds.
I am sure that this does not help anyone.
Thanks
Dan Amidon
1963 Sunbeam Alpine GT - Still welding in patch panels.
Jan Eyerman wrote:
> 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
> > > = Sunbeam Alpine Series II #9118636 | www.bss.ab.ca/sunbeam
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