page_title: Chaldron
hierarchical_section_title: Chaldron
caption_attribution_description: Image Title: The collier. Creator: Havell, R. &amp; D. -- Engraver Additional Name(s): Walker, George, 1781-1856 -- Author Alternate Source Title: Costumes du comte d'York, réprésentés dans une série de quarante planches, fac-similes des desseins originaux, accompagnées de descriptions en anglois et en francois. Published Date:1813 Medium: Engravings Item Physical Description: 38 x 27 cm. Item/Page/Plate: Plate 3 Source: The costume of Yorkshire, illustrated by a series of forty engravings, being fac-similes of original drawings. With descriptions in English and French. Source Description: 5 p. l., 3-96 p. col. front., 40 col. pl. 48 cm. Location: Stephen A. Schwarzman Building / Rare Books Division Catalog Call Number: (Parsons) VWIP+ (Walker. Costume of Yorkshire) Digital ID: 1123151 Record ID: 359058 Digital Item Published: 3-1-2004; updated 3-25-2011
context_page_description: A chaldron was an English measure of dry volume, mostly used for coal; the word itself is an obsolete spelling of cauldron. It was used from the 13th century onwards, nominally until 1963 when it was abolished by the Weights and Measures Act 1963 but in practice until the end of 1835 when the Weights and Measures Act of that year specified that thenceforth coal could only be sold by weight.
context_section_description: A chaldron (also chauldron or chalder) was an English measure of dry volume, mostly used for coal; the word itself is an obsolete spelling of cauldron. It was used from the 13th century onwards, nominally until 1963 when it was abolished by the Weights and Measures Act 1963 but in practice until the end of 1835 when the Weights and Measures Act of that year specified that thenceforth coal could only be sold by weight.
caption: John Blenkinsop's pioneering locomotive pulling several chaldrons (1813).
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