Vehicle weight, payload, troop capacity

[David_Hayward (RIP)]

There were 20 'Hundredweights' in the Imperial Ton, so 1 cwt = 112 lbs. This was also a bag of cement so I know how much it is to carry just 1 cwt! !Ho hum! What a typo! 16 ounces or ozs in a pound, 112 lbs in a cwt. and 20 cwts in a ton! And 12 x 12 = 144 or ONE GROSS! Kids nowadays only go to 10 x 10!

If you think that the military ratings are odd, just consider the variety of ratings that the civilian authorities used when the trucks were demobbed!

There has always been it seems a disparity between US ratings and say British ratings. For example the 1929-32 Chevrolet Light Delivery was in the US a 1/2 ton chassis or 10 cwt. but the British rating was 12 cwt. From 1927-28 the 1-Ton US chassis was 20-25 cwt., and then 1929-32 25 cwt. The British rated 1 1/2 ton US modified Canadian and US 4 x 2 trucks from 1940 as 3-tonners