Coal basket

The coal basket , filled but not heaped, was a Swiss measure of volume for the charcoal . The coal basket was only available in the cantons of Zurich and Zug and the measure could be divided into four quarters.

1 coal basket (old) = 13.75 Swiss cubic feet = 0.376392 cubic meters
1 coal malt = 2 coal baskets = 27.5 cubic feet = 0.752784 cubic meters
1 coal basket (new) = 12 Swiss cubic feet = 9.45233 Parisian cubic feet = 324 liters
1 old basket = 1.161705 new basket
1 new basket = 0.860804 old basket

Individual evidence

↑ August Schiebe : Universal encyclopedia of commercial science: containing: coin, measure and weight. Volume 3, Friedrich Fleischer Leipzig and the Schumann Brothers Zwickau 1839, p. 583.
↑ ^a ^b Tables for comparing the hitherto customary weights and measures of the Canton of Zurich with the New Swiss weights and measures. Publisher Orell Füssli and Company, Zurich 1837, p 64th
^ Christian Noback , Friedrich Eduard Noback : Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight relationships. Volume 1, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851, pp. 1113, 1523.

[1] August Schiebe : Universal encyclopedia of commercial science: containing: coin, measure and weight. Volume 3, Friedrich Fleischer Leipzig and the Schumann Brothers Zwickau 1839, p. 583.

[Tafel-2] Tables for comparing the hitherto customary weights and measures of the Canton of Zurich with the New Swiss weights and measures. Publisher Orell Füssli and Company, Zurich 1837, p 64th

[3] Christian Noback , Friedrich Eduard Noback : Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight relationships. Volume 1, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851, pp. 1113, 1523.