Weights And Measures (1956)

M/S of Lewisham Market, as a stall holder weighs some oranges for a woman in a bobble hat and empties them into her shopping bag. An inspector from the ’Weights and Measures’ Department walks up to the stall, shows the trader his identity card and starts to examine and test his weights and scales in a spot check. The inspector nods that everything is sound and the trader gets back to work. M/S in the Weights and Measures office at the London County Council, where a man is seen weighing loaves of bread on a pair of scales; another man brings more loaves with labels attached with elastic bands; the man weighs the loaves and makes notes. M/S of a bespectacled man pouring a pint of milk into a measuring jug to check it is a pint! Another man empties a tin of baked beans into a measuring jar and checks it on the scales. M/S of a man weighing skeins of brightly coloured wool on a pair of scales; C/U of this man concentrating and adding fine weights to the scales. M/S of a man at a workbench measuring ou