Bidon (unit)

Bidon was a measure of volume for liquids, more precisely: for wine . The measure was only valid for the French fleet and the name was derived from the wooden vessel, similar to a bucket with tires, in which the sailors received their rations of wine.

• 1 bidon = 5 pints (paris. 1 pint (simple) = 46.05 Parisian cubic inches ) = 230.25 Parisian cubic inches ≈ 4.57 liters

literature

• Carl Günther Ludovici: Newly opened Academie der Kaufmann, or encyclopaedic merchant lexicon, everything worth knowing and non-profit in the broad areas of commercial science and commercial studies in general: containing: the richest universal library from which the businessman and those studying action can take a break at every opportunity can, and what all, because of their commerce or their trade, strange countries and places, stacking places and defeats, institutions, regulations and aids that concern shipping and trade, the large trading companies, are explained and described in the most precise way. Volume 1, Breitkopf and Härtel, Leipzig 1797, p. 1839.
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