Re: [Bell Historians] Re: £ - s - d; or even t-c-q-l?

[Chris Povey]

Seems to be some mixing up here. £-s-d is the abbreviation for the old imperial money. Ton-cwt-qtr-lb, or t-c-q-l, is the abbreviation for imperial weight (Avoirdupois).

I guess we're talking about weight?

Chris Povey

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Mike Chester 
  To: bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 11:50 AM
  Subject: [Bell Historians] Re: £ - s - d.


  --- In bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com, "Alan Buswell" <aaj.buswell at ...> 
  wrote:
  > Does anyone have a formula whereby one can add/subtract Tons - 
  > hundredweight - quarters - pounds suitable for computer use? I'm not 
  > well up in these matters.
  > 
  > Alan B.
  >

  Depending on how many you might want to do you might use this site?.

  http://home.swbell.net/csz_stl/towerbells/Cwt-Qtr-Lb_Calculator.html

  Could convert things into pounds, add them up and covert them back into 
  Lsd?

  Mike



              
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