Per NIST Handbook 44, Appendix C, if the word is unmodified, the short hundredweight and ton are meant. Long hundredweights and tons must be declared such (in the US), "short" is optional and may be omitted, but understood.
I assume in the UK the long hundredweight and ton would the default and would not have been modified. Neither is legal for trade any more, only kilograms and metric tons (does the UK primarily use tonne or metric ton?) ________________________________ From: Henschel Mark <mw-hensch...@neiu.edu> To: U.S. Metric Association <usma@colostate.edu> Cc: U.S. Metric Association <usma@colostate.edu> Sent: Mon, April 8, 2013 6:23:45 PM Subject: [USMA:52640] RE: Germany: Thieves swipe 5 tons of chocolate spread We have both short tons and long tons. I think the short ton is 2,000 pounds whereas the long ton is based on the hundredweight, which is 112 pounds (sic). So a long ton in the USA could very well be 2240 pounds. Mark ----- Original Message ----- From: Martin Vlietstra <vliets...@btinternet.com> Date: Monday, April 8, 2013 4:48 pm Subject: [USMA:52636] RE: Germany: Thieves swipe 5 tons of chocolate spread To: "U.S. Metric Association" <usma@colostate.edu> > But they got their conversion wrong – 1 tonne is 2209 lbs and an ordinary ton is 2240 lbs (at least that is what I was taught in school in South Africa), or is something different in the United States? ;-) Martin Vlietstra From:owner-u...@colostate.edu [mailto:owner-u...@colostate.edu] On Behalf Of John M. Steele > Sent: 08 April 2013 16:25 > To: U.S. Metric Association > Subject: [USMA:52629] Germany: Thieves swipe 5 tons of chocolate spread Amazingly, it is an AP article and they are metric tons. http://news.yahoo.com/germany-thieves-swipe-5-tons-chocolate-spread-103316137.html BERLIN (AP) — These thieves might really have sticky fingers. Police said Monday an unknown number of culprits made off with 5 metric tons (5.5 tons) of Nutella chocolate-hazelnut spread from a parked trailer in the central German town of Bad Hersfeld over the weekend.
