>From the first link: But our hapless stone faces other handicaps:
. Its larger relatives, the quarter and the hundredweight, have already fallen into disuse; -- Except, unfortunately, in change bell ringing. Weighing bells in cwt/qr/lb is "tradition" and no one even sees anything funny about it. Carleton Ringer at the Washington National Cathedral Weight of tenor bell: 1630 kg Shown on the bronze plaque as 3588 lb And in all the literature as 32-0-4 (come to think of it, a reasonably close approximation of the mass of any tower bell is: take the cwt figure, divide it by 2, multiply by 100, and that's around the mass in kg - in our example, 32/2 = 16 x 100 = 1600 kg) -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 18:39 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:40424] UK government cracking down on "stoned" patients http://www.metricviews.org.uk/2008/02/13/scales-error-risk/ http://www.lacors.gov.uk/lacors/NewsArticleDetails.aspx?N=0&Ne=0+2000+3000+4 000+5000+6000+7000+8000+9000+10000+11000&id=18737 Ezra
