Would anyone kindly help with converting a very old imperial meter reading to kwh please?

While the last estimation made from them  is  :

Now we’re getting somewhere!  That was a long time ago, but we can now assume that the meter reached 9999 sometime after you moved in, started again at 0000 and has now reached 0244. Over those 2½ years, then, you seem to have used 820 units of gas, or perhaps 27 per month on average. 

27 x 2.83 = 76 m³ which equates to something of the order of 850 kWh, probably £50 or £60 each month on average, plus, of course, the standing charge of around £9 a month. If this is very different from the amounts you’ve been paying, you’re either in for a nice windfall or a major shock to the wallet. I’m afraid that with the latest estimated reading you showed above being so much lower than the actual one, you may be presented with a big bill. If it’s too big to manage, your supplier will make it easier for you by giving you time to pay, so call them when you get the bill. 

So i have been paying 60£ direct debit every single month for the past yeras for both energy snd gas! But once in three month EDF would sent me a gas bill usually for over 150£ which has been paid too! 
Now when i decided to give this metter reading they did sent me a 700£ debit! 
 

The reason why i was sceptic about is the fact that it is too much  and smth seems off because i have already paying and it still is to high debit after the redading! 

i have raised a complain to them but for the fact that i believe they mis calculate it...now i am lost ahha! Thank you very much for the explain! 
 

I would also be pushing EDF to fit a new gas meter, the one in your image has a date of 1990 on it so it’s 35 years old.

(They may be reluctant to change it though, some gas meters could be certified for 40 years).

Can someone explain please- this gas metter reads in Single ft cubic or 100s of cubic feet?! 
 

I decided to give this metter reading to my gas company and they have treated it as : 

14.6990 Estimated reading

244.0000 Customer reading

229.3010 Units (100s of ft cubic) 

 

and this jumps my bill to 700£ debit even though I have paid gas regularly ! 
 

From gov website not all the imperial gas measure in 100s of ft cubic) but EDF wont agree! 
 When turn it into cubic meters they calculate it by 2.83 instead of 0.0283 ! 
 

Am i wrong? Can anyone help? Thnx

Personally I don’t think you are wrong, I’m having the exact same issue with EDF with the exact same meter and the exact same conclusion of being overcharged, mine states .071ft3/rev just like yours, I have watched the proving clock, mine flicks over the red digit in 10 revolutions, should be just over 14 revolutions, so I have concluded that the rotating red digit is relative to the .071ft3/rev on the face plate, EDF requires the 4 black dial digits, as you said, there billing formulas as well as being stated on the bill, seems to consider the digit to the immediate left of the red dial as (100s of ft3), I have it in an email and EDF still say it is the correct multiplier x2.83, i personally think it should be (units) x 0.283 not (units) x 2.83 as that is for calculating HCf - cubic meter. Have you had any further developments as any help would be appreciated as I’m still fighting, mine started around 2022 aswell, send me an email and I’ve got screenshots of their online system changing it immediately after I sent a reading and by morning it has been deleted and reversed charges are taken off a much higher figure 

These photos were taken immediately after sending a meter reading, reversing charges till the balance was £1067 in credit

2 hours later in this instance, all the information has changed shown here with the exact same dates and reversed charges except they are taken off a much higher initial balance that just shows up out of fresh air, I am convinced that there is something wrong and all I get in the complaint department is we’ve checked the billing and it’s correct 

So my old Parkinson Cowan meter reads in Ft3, the proving wheel rotates 10x to increment the red digit so the red digit is proving relatively accurate (accounting for mechanical flick over in the gearing)to the.071ft3/rev on the face plate, (should be just over 14 revolutions) but that’s not the argument, what is the argument is why the black digit immediately left off the 1ft3 red digit is considered 100ft3, not 10ft3 when a full 0-0 rotation of the red digit increments the black dial 1, Any help will be appreciated 

This image is from the official government guidelines about gas meter readings:
  

The ‘4 black dial digits’ you mention give the reading in hundreds of cubic feet, and you can just ignore the other figures.

100 ft³ = 2.83 m³, so that is the multiplier to be used when calculating the volume used to convert to kWh. ​​​