CWT is also used in car parks and common parlance.
I've never used or heard "quarters" though (apart from quarters meaning qtr
pound)> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected]> Subject: [USMA:40425]
RE: UK government cracking down on "stoned" patients> Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008
21:03:46 -0500> > >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:
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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>
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