John (Kilopascal) wrote in USMA 11666: >If there is a US hundredweight, then it is obsolete and out of use. I have >never heard of it or seen it in use. I'm sure if I asked around, people >would give me an odd look. Maybe there is some fringe group or industry >that uses it, but I doubt one will find a scale around calibrated in this >odd unit. Robert F. Legget in "Standards in Canada" on page 45 wrote "One of the strange changes in British standards, this one imposed by King Edward I, changed the hundredweight from 100 pounds to 112 pounds -- its definition to this day." The (Canadian) Weights and Measures Act definjes the hundreweight as 100 lb. NIST 811 defines the long hundredweight as 112 lb, and the short hundredweight as 100 lb. Joseph B. Reid 17 Glebe Road West Toronto M5P 1C8 Tel. 416 486-6071
