UK vs US Lbs

[Andy in Sig]

Are UK and UK Lbs the same weight? I've been searching on the net and most sites suggest (but don't specifically state) that they are. Anybody know for sure?

 

[marinyork]

Pounds are the same, I think it's the hundredweight you're thinking of, they are different.

 

[Andy in Sig]

Thanks very much for that. It was quite important to know.

 

[Yellow Fang]

Why do you want to know the weight of British and American local bike shops? What would that prove exactly?

 

[Canrider]

Pounds are the same, tons are different (apparently).

 

[Renard]

as are gallons.

 

[marinyork]

A ton is worked out from a hundredweight which is why that's different. A hundredweight seems to have been taken quite literally at some point?

 

[cisamcgu]

long ton (simply ton in countries such as the United Kingdom which formerly used the Imperial system of weights and measures) is a weight ton or gross ton, and is 2,240 pounds (exactly 1,016.0469088 kg)

short ton (usually called simply ton in North America or sometimes called a net ton) = 2,000 lb (about 907.18474 kg).

Both the long ton and the short ton are composed of twenty hundredweights, each having different values for the hundredweight (112 and 100 pounds respectively)


(From wiki)

 

[yenrod]

The long and short of it !