General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

Weights and Measures, would call in shops unannounced, and check to see if the scales were accurate, and you had to adjust the scales, to make sure they were 'level'
Weights which were used on things like vegetable scales, mainly for weighing potatoes, for example 5lb of potatoes, would have two 2lb weights, and 1lb pound weight, and when the new crop of potatoes came through, the Jerseys, Cyprus etc, and I found some cracking cockroaches in sacks of potatoes, and I was warned to watch out for finding Scorpions in sacks of spuds from Cyprus, and you would then weigh those in 2lb and 3lb bags, and the weight of the weights would be checked, by the Weights and Measures man, and if you had reason to have the weight of your weights adjusted, because the Weights and Measures man, said that the Weights were wrong, then the person or company which adjusted the weight of the weights, would then melt their official stamp, which said who they were, they would melt their official stamp into the adjusting lead content in the weight

I was once in a shop where the Weights and Measures came in, and found that the Rathbones medium sliced bread was underweight, all the loaves were 1 gram underweight, and this was in the early 1970s, so they had already started weighing stuff in grams back then, and what a palava that was, every loaf was checked, both with and without the wrapping on, the Breadman was upset, because these two Weights and Measure men, had waited outside of the shop, for the Rathbones delivery man to show up, so they must have had a tip off, and as he carried his last tray of bread into the shop, they pounced, and he had to stop at the shop, whilst they went about their business, and when the bread was found to be underweight, they said that he could not deliver anymore bread to the other shops on his round, and he then got on the shop phone to the bakery, and a boss from Rathbones showed up in a transit van, and he had to take the bread back from the shop to the bakery, escorted by the Weights and Measures squad, along with the bread delivery van, I don't know what they did then, but the shop had no Rathbones Medium Sliced bread that day