Spon (unit)

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Spon was a Swedish / Norwegian volume and grain measure .

The dimensional chain was

  • 1 ton = 2 spons = 32 heads = 56 cans = 112 stops

The value for 1 ton = 146.565 liters is calculated for

  • 1 Spon = 73.2825 liters

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ C. Bopp: The international measure, weight and coin agreement through the metric system. Julius Maier, Stuttgart 1869, p. 131.