Hundredweight (UK) (cwt (UK))
112 pounds (50.80 kg), eight stone. Twenty of them make a long ton.
1 hundredweight (UK) = 50.80234544 kilograms (exactly).
About the hundredweight (UK)
Hundredweight, abbreviated cwt, comes from the medieval Latin centum for a hundred, though the English hundred around 1300 varied in size. The Weights and Measures Act 1835 fixed the imperial unit at 112 pounds, which is 8 stone, or about 50.80 kilograms. NIST gives the factor as 50.80235 kilograms and does not mark it as exact.
A rival 100 pound version crossed the Atlantic and was used in the United States and Canada. Britain banned it in 1824 over fraud fears, then legalised it in 1879 as the cental after merchants importing American wheat and tobacco pressed for it. Twenty long hundredweight make a 2,240 pound ton. The unit measured cattle, fodder, fertiliser and coal, and old anvils and church bells carry weights stamped in hundredweight, quarters and pounds. Guernsey and older van and truck ratings still use it.
Sources: Wikipedia: Hundredweight; NIST SP 811, Appendix B.8 conversion factors
Hundredweight (UK) conversion chart
1 hundredweight (UK) expressed in every other weight & mass unit:
| Unit | 1 hundredweight (UK) |
|---|---|
| Kilograms | 50.80234544 |
| Grams | 50,802.34544 |
| Metric Tons | 0.05080234544 |
| Pounds | 112 |
| Ounces | 1,792 |
| Milligrams | 50,802,345.44 |
| Micrograms | 50,802,345,440 |
| Carats | 254,011.7272 |
| Stone | 8 |
| Short Tons | 0.056 |
| Long Tons | 0.05 |
| Troy Ounces | 1,633.333333 |
| Daltons | 3.059388749×10²⁸ |
| Earth Masses | 8.506470888×10⁻²⁴ |
| Solar Masses | 2.554845959×10⁻²⁹ |
| Quintals | 0.5080234544 |
| Grains | 784,000 |
| Drams | 28,672 |
| Hundredweight (US) | 1.12 |
| Quarters (UK) | 4 |
| Slugs | 3.481066419 |
| Troy Pounds | 136.1111111 |
| Pennyweights | 32,666.66667 |
| Scruples | 39,200 |
| Apothecaries' Drams | 13,066.66667 |
| Roman Pounds | 154.4613726 |
| Roman Ounces | 1,854.100199 |
| Attic Talents | 1.939316897 |
| Attic Minas | 116.3590138 |
| Attic Drachmas | 11,635.90138 |
| Obols | 69,815.4083 |
| Shekels (biblical) | 4,417.595256 |
| Hebrew Talents | 1.763970328 |
| Monme | 13,547.29212 |
| Kin | 84.67057573 |
| Kan | 13.54729212 |
| Qian (Chinese) | 10,160.46909 |
| Liang (Chinese) | 1,016.046909 |
| Jin (Chinese) | 101.6046909 |
| Dan (Chinese) | 1.016046909 |
| Catties (Hong Kong) | 84 |
| Taels (Hong Kong) | 1,344 |
| Tola | 4,355.555556 |
| Seers | 54.44444444 |
| Maunds | 1.361111111 |
| Zolotniks | 11,909.20772 |
| Funts | 124.0542471 |
| Poods | 3.101356178 |
| Libras (Castilian) | 110.4175578 |
| Arrobas (Spanish) | 4.416702314 |
| Arrobas (Brazilian) | 3.386823029 |
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