chaldron

This was just large enough to accommodate the custom-built chaldron wagons.

The wagons were of the usual colliery chaldron type.

Known in the UK as a tippler or chaldron wagon.

A chaldron was a horse-drawn wagon containing 17 cwt of coal.

Many attempts have been made to calculate the weight of a Newcastle chaldron as used in medieval and early modern times.

It was said that if the dandy wagon was missing the horse would try to jump onto the rearmost chaldron.

The chaldron shape survived in a few cases, such as low-speed working around a large factory site, such as a steelworks.

The value of a chaldron of coal depended on the size of the lumps of coal and also their water content.

They are called "Chaldron Optical System," which relates to his upcoming novel "Chronic City," due out in October.

The first railway bulk-cargo gondolas, indeed the first freight wagons, were the chaldron cars of the early coal-carrying plateways.

Since 1975, it has been on display in the car park of the National Railway Museum, York, carrying a coal wagon of the original chaldron style.

In 1758, from the Rainton coalfield, 20866 chaldrons of coal were shipped abroad (a chaldron weighed two tons 13 hundredweight).

Historically, coal taxes (metage, payable on each chaldron of 35 bushels or the imperial ton) were charged by the City based on volume measurements.

A chaldron (also chauldron or chalder) was a dry English measure of volume, mostly used for coal; the word itself is an obsolete spelling of cauldron.

The chaldron was used as the measure for coal from the 13th century, measuring by volume being much more practical than weighing low-value, high-bulk commodities like coal.

The chaldron was the legal limit for horse-drawn coal wagons travelling by road as it was considered that heavier loads would cause too much damage to the roadways.

Dues were set to shipping at the rate of a farthing per ton of general cargo and a halfpenny per chaldron (25 cwt) of Newcastle coal.

The company expanded into other energy fields - an 1875 ad in The Eagle offered to deliver coke for fuel at $4 per "chaldron," an English measure equivalent to 36 bushels.

It was the first commercial adhesion steam locomotive, employed to haul coal chaldron wagons from the mine at Wylam to the docks at Lemington-on-Tyne in Northumberland.

He took part in the contest, and in spite of his early reputation, was spelled down on the word "chaldron," which he spelled "cauldron," as he had been taught, while the dictionary used as authority gave that form as second choice.

Their function in most cases was to facilitate the transport of coal in chaldron wagons from the coalpits to a staithe (a wooden pier) on the river bank, whence coal could be shipped to London by collier brigs.

The Newcastle chaldron was used to measure all coal shipped from Northumberland and Durham, and the London chaldron became the standard measure for coal in the east and south of England.

In 1600 the Company of Hostmen was incorporated through a charter granted by Elizabeth I. This gave them exclusive rights to trade coal in the Tyne in return for a one-shilling tax on every chaldron (wagonload) of coal shipped from the Tyne.

Then 2 bushels make a strike, 2 strikes make a coom, 2 cooms make a quarter, 4 quarters make a chaldron (though in the demanding city of London, it takes 41/2 quarters to make a chaldron).

There are a number of industrial steam locomotives (including rare examples by Stephen Lewin, from Seaham, and Black, Hawthorn & Co), and many chaldron wagons (the region's traditional type of colliery railway rolling stock, and which became a symbol of Beamish Museum).