The following table is intended to help British and American customers with the conversion of metric measures and units.
Linear measures
| 1 millimetre (mm) |
0.0394 inches |
| 1 metre (m) |
1.094 yards |
| 1 kilometre (km) |
1094 yards |
| 1 mile |
1.609 km |
| 1 inch |
25.4 mm |
Cubic measures
| 1 cubic centimetre (ccm) |
0.061 cubic inches |
| 1 cubic inch |
16.387 ccm |
Measures of capacity
| 1 litre (l) |
1.76 pints (Brit.) |
0.22 gallons (Brit.) |
| 1 litre (l) |
2.11 pints (U.S) |
0.2642 gallons (U.S) |
| 1 gallon (Brit.) |
4.546 litres |
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| 1 gallon (U.S) |
3.785 litres |
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Weight
| 1 kilogramme (kg) |
2.205 pounds |
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| 1 pound |
0.454 kilogrammes |
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| 1 stone |
14 pounds |
6.35 kilogrammes |
Temperature
| 0 °Fahrenheit |
-17.8 °Celsius |
| 32 °F |
0 °C |
| 90 °F |
32.2 °C |
| 212 °F |
100 °C |
To convert Fahrenheit into Celsius subtract 32 and multiply by 5/9ths.
To convert Celsius into Fahrenheit multiply by 9/5ths and add 32.
Fuel consumption
| 10 litres/ 100km |
28 mpg (miles per gallon) |
| 8 litres/ 100km |
35 mpg |
| 20 mpg |
14.2 litres/ 100km |
Tension
| 1 Newton metre (Nm) |
0.741 pounds per feet (Lbft) |
| 1 Lbft |
1.35 Nm |
Pressure
| 1 bar |
14.5 psi (pounds per square inch) |
| 1 psi |
0.069 bar |
Speed
| 100 km/h |
62.2 miles per hour |
| 100 mph |
160 km/h |
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