Jim McCracken wrote: >Very interesting use of the old word for a metric ton. Does anyone from >Canada on the List know if in fact this is a truck with a load rating of >2000 kg, or if this is "Europeanized" spelling of a "ton" of 2000 lb??
It was in Australia, not Canada. Its load rating is, of course, 1000 kg, not 2000 kg. As the long ton (2240 lb) was never European (only British and British Commonwealth), there never was an official Europeanized spelling (as far as I know). The Italians had a word for it -- tonellata -- which they defined as 1016 kg. (However, 1017 kg would have been more accurate.) Bill Potts, CMS Roseville, CA http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
