Cart (unit)

The cart was a Brunswick and Zwickau volume measure. Charcoal was measured with it.

The measure in the Duchy of Braunschweig was defined as follows on March 30, 1837 as part of the standardization of measures:

• 1 cart = 100 cubic feet = 2,324 cubic meters or steren

The cubic foot was so fixed in its dimensions

• 1 cubic foot = 1728 cubic inches = 1728 cubic lines = 0.02324 cubic meters (0.0232375393 cubic meters = 0.677928825 Parisian cubic feet )

In Zwickau it was a coal measure .

• 1 cart = 5 bushels (Dresdner)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Eduard Döring: Handbook of coin, exchange, measure and weight. Verlag J. Hölscher, Koblenz 1862, p. 145.
2. ↑ Christian Nelkenbrecher : JC Nelkenbrecher's General Pocket Book of Coin, Measure and Weight. Sanderschen Buchhandlung, Berlin 1828, p. 83.
3. ^ Christian Noback , Friedrich Eduard Noback : Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight relationships. Volume 2, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851, p. 1532.