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Old May 31st 10, 04:32 AM posted to uk.railway,misc.transport.urban-transit,uk.transport.london
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On Sun, 30 May 2010 00:51:39 +0200, Andrew Price
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On Fri, 28 May 2010 21:58:50 -0700, Nobody wrote:

Ah, the US liquid measurement isn't the same as Imperial.

I think it probably was, until the UK standardised the gallon in the
19th century as being that volume of water which weighs ten pounds.
Before that, I suspect that the gallon was identical on both sides of
the pond.

There were different gallons for different substances. The US gallon
appears to be what was the 1707 UK wine gallon :-
http://www.uepengland.com/bbs/index....-and-measures/

In the UK the gallon was fixed for all substances from 1890 when the
dry gallon (0.96944 "wet" gallons) was abolished :-
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/A477155
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