Coal & Fuel Mining

A dry volume measure equal to 36 bushels, tightly enforced at the Port of London to regulate domestic coal shipments.

Approx. 1,309 litres

An industrial shipping measure optimised for northeastern coal carts and river barges, roughly double the London variant.

Approx. 2,618 litres

An industrial weight unit equal to 8 Newcastle chaldrons, named after the flat-bottomed boats that ferried coal down the River Tyne.

21.54 tonnes

A retail street trade bag legally defined as one hundredweight (112 lbs) to prevent consumer short-measuring.

112 pounds = 50.802 kilograms

An underground mining container used in British collieries to haul newly hewn coal from the tunnel face to the surface.

4 to 7 hundredweight

A traditional heavy weight measure derived from "cartload," standardised at roughly 2,240 pounds for bulk commodities like lead and coal.

Approx. 2,240 pounds

A massive Northern English colliery volumetric standard used to calculate landowner mining royalties, equal to roughly 22 keels.

Approx. 22 keel