Chaldron
Chaldron (also Chaudron or Chalder) was originally (since 1826 ) a British unit of measurement for pourable solids, either as a measure of volume or weight, but later only used for hard coal . Use of the unit ended in 1963 with the reform of the Weights and Measures Act .
Depending on the area, a chaldron was specified differently:
- The London Chaldron was 24 Hundred Weights (English hundredweight ) or 2,688 British pounds trade (= 1,219.25 kg ).
- The Newcastle Chaldron measured 53 hundredweights or 5,936 pounds = 2,692.5 kg.
- For coal in particular, 1 chaldron = 36 bushels, which corresponds to a weight of 566 pounds (avoirdupois) (approx. 256 kg).
- 1 Chaldron was 4 Imperial Quarters = 1,163.125 l .
- 1 chaldron = 12 sacks = 36 bushels = 144 pecks / packs = 288 gallons = 65,944 19/20 Parisian cubic inches = 1306 ¾ liters
- 21 Chaldron = 1 Score (equivalent to the old German shock)
When purchasing 5 Chaldron (60 sacks) of coal, the seller had to add 3 sacks, as a so-called port size in English. Ingrain.
In Newcastle upon Tyne we were working on hard coal
- 8 chadron = 1 keel
The Newcastle Chaldron was different from the London one and twice as big.
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of the coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world. Verlag Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830, p. 45.
- ^ John R. McCulloch, Karl Friedrich Enoch Richter: Handbook for merchants or overview of the most important items of trade and manufacturing. Volume 1, JG Cotta'sche Buchhandlung, Stuttgart / Tübingen 1834, p. 351.