Birmingham Metal and Munitions had ceased manufacture of ammunition by 1920. 1987 Town wins National Allotment Society Waterlow Trophy. Used the monogram 1942 to 1945. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: G..F3 or C..F3 Government Cartridge Factory No 3, Blackpole, Worcestershire, UNITED KINGDOM. DWM Deutsche Waffen Und Munitionsfabrik, Karlsruhe, GERMANY. The latter resulted in colliery workers houses springing up on the main Durham road. Everyman Theatre opens. In 1887, when they were renamed the Royal Ordnance Factories, control passed to the financial secretary's Civil Department, from which in 1899 they returned to the . Cost 87,000. MW Small Arms Ammunition Factory No 6, Welchpool, AUSTRALIA. 1968 Bessemer Park Housing commenced (1,009 houses). 1969 Courtaulds Ltd. open spinning factory at Green Lane. The Dene is landscaped. Into the 20th Century In 1926 when Nobel Industries became part of the new Imperial Chemical Industries, the old Kynoch factory at Witton was retained as the ammunition centre as part of the Metal Group within ICI. AOC Bombrini, Parodi et Delfino, Rome, ITALY. 1944 Christmas Eve a stray German VI Flying Bomb exploded in Tudhoe Cricket Club field at 6 am D-Day, 6th June. Spennymoor was ringed with collieries, black furnaces and coke ovens and the new prosperity showed itself in the building of better houses and in the opening of Co-operative stores. DAC Dominion Arsenal, Quebec, CANADA. Manufactured .303 cartridges from 1915 1918 in: Incendiary Buckingham (VII.B), B Mk 1, B Mk 2Z, SAAF Small Arms Factory Footscray, AUSTRALIA. ROF Blackburn. A new 3-bedroom semi cost 3,375 to buy on private housing estate. Known to have manufactured .303 cartridges in: US United States Cartridge Co, Lowell, Mass., UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 1995 H.M. Queen Elizabeth II visited the Thorn Lighting factory at Spennymoor. The views expressed are theirs and unless specifically stated are not In WWI the Ministry of Munitions took over responsibility for manufacture of explosives (see H. M. Explosive Factories) and for filling of munitions (see National Filling Factories and National Projectile Factories, etc). More than 17,000 women worked at the factory, and Ms Scott said . Colour coding appears in several forms on small arms ammunition. 1984 Royal Armament Research and Development Establishment's Waltham Abbey south site became part of Royal Ordnance. 2001 Memorial to two Hurricane pilots killed in aircrash at Tudhoe in 1942 unveiled at York Hill Cemetery. 1818 The work of the Lewisham establishment was transferred to Enfield. The works then possessed the largest mill in Europe, capable of rolling plates up to 13 feet in width. 2002 Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee, Parade of Golden Roses, Jubilee Park. By this time we were given mugs of tea and corned beef sarnies. PMP Pretoria Metal Pressings (Pty) Ltd., Pretoria, SOUTH AFRICA. They received their first Government contract for the supply of Mk 7 Ball ammunition in 1915 and continued to produce until the end of 1918 at their new factory at Tyseley. UT = Utah Ordnance Plant - Salt Lake City, Utah. POF Pakistan Ordnance Factory, Rawalpindi, PAKISTAN. Known to have produced 7.7 x 56R ball cartridges, which are interchangeable with the .303 cartridge post 1961. The last .303 ball cartridges manufactured at Radway Green in 1973 were loaded with nitro-cellulose powder and not cordite, cordite having last been used for the .303 cartridge in the 1960s. TW = Twin Cities Ordnance Plant - Minneapolis, Minnesota. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded .303 cartridges in: AE Arsenal do Ejercito, Lisbon, PORTUGAL. This cupro-nickle jacketed bullet, produced at the Dum Dum ammunition factory in India, had an exposed lead nose which gave rapid expansion on impact and therefore greater wounding effect when it hit a body. 1942 1942 1943 1944 Tikkakoski Arsenal - Finland Tikkakoski was the first private arms manufacturer in Finland. CAC Colonial Ammunition Co., Melbourne, AUSTRALIA. 1962 Pavilions added to Merrington Lane playing fields. As he was being transferred from Italy to Germany he escaped by jumping from the train and for this among many other things he received the Military Medal. c 1948. The last tracer round introduced into British service was the G Mark 8 round approved in 1945, the last armour piercing round was the W Mark 1Z introduced in 1945 and the last incendiary round was the B Mark 7 introduced in 1942. 1940 German H.E. 1987 Middlestone Moor Community Centre extended. I worked at the Royal Ordnance factory (ROF) at Spennymoor. ROF Brackla; ROF 41 at Brackla and ROF 53 at Waterton, ROF Dunham on the Hill; Explosives storage depot. Royal Ordnance Factory. I remember Lord Haw Haw on radio speaking from Germany calling. Since the introduction of the .303 cartridge in 1889 it has been manufactured in at least 20 countries and in nearly 200 military variants as well as in numerous experimental and sporting cartridge configurations. ROF Brackla; Filling Factory No. Smart and Brown opens on Ordnance Factory site. Royal Small Arms Factory Factory No 2. This is a list of Royal Ordnance Factories. Manufactured .303 cartridges with this headstamp January 1924 to February 1925. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: NORMA or norma Norma Projectilfabrik, Amotfors, SWEDEN. By Barry W. Gracia, An extensive website on the Vickers machine gun, Harrington Aviation Museum DropZone Newsletter, Identification Manuals Nos 1, 2, 3, and 4 on the .303 British Service Cartridge. 1964 Black and decker open factory at Green Lane. Spennymoor, The one good road was maintained by tolls collected at turnpike gates. This factory made and marked cases but filling was carried out at the Royal Ordnance Factory Swynnerton, Staffs. Known to have produced .303 cartridges during the period 1940 1944 in: C-P Crompton Parkinson Ltd, Doncaster, Yorkshire, UNITED KINGDOM. We were shown how the airmen assembled our bullets and taken to try the Frainer Bomber (named the Lincoln Frainer). This mark of bullet remained the standard ball round for the remainder of the .303 cartridges service life. This round had a muzzle velocity of 1830 feet per second and a chamber pressure of about 19 tons per square inch. Nevertheless, the whole of this countryside was made desolate by Williams soldiers, and for many years it was the haunt of outlaws and wild animals. Known to have manufactured 7.7 x 56R bulleted blanks, which are interchangeable with the .303 cartridge. However, as always in industrial life, boom was followed by bust or near bust, and by 1879 miners wages were down to 4s 9d a day and those of ironworkers to a mere 3s a day. Known to have produced .303 ball cartridges . CHINA is known to have produced some 7.7mm rimmed ammunition for use in captured Japanese machine guns from 1945 onwards. 1940 1949. Dean & Chapter andMainsforth Collieries opened. This factory was built in 1916 and was administered on behalf of the Government by the Kings Norton Metal Co. Production of .303 cartridges did not start until late 1918 and the production of all ammunition finally ceased in early 1919. 1887 Report by Lord Morley's committee into the Manufacturing Departments of the Army, which consisted of 4 establishments: Woolwich, Waltham Abbey, Enfield and Birmingham; the committee made a number of recommendations for reorganisation, having taken account of modern industrial practices[4]. Lost in the Blackout. A Pretoria West Metal Pressings Pty., Pretoria, SOUTH AFRICA. An era of prosperity dawned in the 1860s and 1870s when the miners were earning 1 per day. 1966 Bus Station and Parkwood Precinct opened. Cartridges known to have been manufactured in: MEN Maschinenfabrik Elisenhutte, Nassau, WEST GERMANY. Cordite was used as a propellant from 1891 and the first adopted cordite cartridge, the Cartridge S.A. Ball, Magazine Rifle Cordite Mark 1, had a 215 grain round nosed cupro-nickel jacketed bullet giving a muzzle velocity of about 1970 feet per second at a chamber pressure of about 17.5 tons per square inch. 1931 Road Tolls ceased at Page Bank Bridge. I remember lads coming home from Dunkirk, I helped WRVS to feed and sew stripes on their clothes. T = Tikkakoski Arsenal - Finland. Also manufactured Mk VI Dummy cartridges, SBR Sellier & Bellot, Riga, LATVIA. BPD Bombrini, Parodi et Delfino, Rome ITALY. Troubled Years Town Hall refurbished. This firm was first formed by George Kynoch at Witton in 1862 as a manufacturer of percussion caps. The first blow was the closure in 1901 of the ironworks which had been rendered obsolete by the pace of change elsewhere. A nursery school was opened in the park to look after children while mothers did war work. Yokosuka Naval Arsenal, JAPAN. D, DF, N or S Indian Government Ammunition Factory, Dum Dum, Calcutta, INDIA. Production gap from Jan 1921 to March 1921 after the factory was leased to the Government Known to have produced during 1920-21 the .303 cartridges in: CP Crompton Parkinson Ltd, Guiseley, Yorkshire, UNITED KINGDOM, although filling took place at Doncaster (see below). Known to have produced 7.7 x 56R ball cartridges, which are interchangeable with the .303 cartridge. MEXICO Fabrica National de Munitions, Mexico City, MEXICO. 1934 to 1939 Many new Royal Ordnance Factories were built to enhance the capacity of the Royal Arsenal, Royal Gunpowder Factory and the Royal Small Arms Factory which, being close to London, were susceptible to being bombed[6]. Despite the high levels of unemployment, the housing situation at last took an upturn in the 1930s when the Urban District Council began to use its wider powers to take action on unfit houses. On 16 October 1346 David of Scotland was encamped with a great army on the hills near Durham, and raiding bands under a Douglas had been terrorising the neighbourhood. There was no production of .303 ammunition in 1961. Floral waistcoats and ribboned hats were worn on these highly colourful occasions. The bullet to this round was designed to break up with a puff of smoke on impact with a target or the ground . WRA = Winchester Repeating Arms - New Haven, Connecticut. The coal industry has been replaced by manufacturers of consumer goods, and factories of Electrolux, Thorn Lighting and Black and Decker were established. Royal Arsenal Factory No 1. When we arrived at Goosepool Mr Hosie was not allowed to enter the airport as it was strictly guarded. 1941 Royal Ordnance Factory opens. 1939 Outbreak of World War II. Spennymoor is known to have produced .303 cartridges such as Ball Mk 7 and 8Z, Blank L Mk 5, Incendiary B Mk 6, B Mk 6Z, B . This company was formed in 1890 at Kings Norton, it owned its own rolling mills and had a loading plant at Abbey wood in Kent. R..W Rudge Whitworth Ltd., Tyseley, UNITED KINGDOM. 1858 Page Bank Colliery disaster 10 miners killed. 8). Gateshead refugees arrived in Spennymoor. There were, of course, early problems, but the new industries became established and, in most cases, began to expand. The main factor was the opening in 1941 of a Royal Ordnance Factory at Merrington Lane and since then this estate has provided a constant source of alternative employment to the coal industry. Royal Ordnance, including the Royal Ordnance Factories, makers of guns, ammunition and explosives. Factory in operation 1828 1919. In 1962 the Metals Division of ICI was reorganised as a separate company known as Imperial Metal Industries (Kynoch) Ltd. During WW1 Kynoch produced in excess of 2,373 million .303 cartridges. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: F Small Arms Ammunition Factory, Footscray, AUSTRALIA. manufacturing in Britain. On nitro-cellulose loaded .303 Mk 7z Ball cartridges made by FNM of Moscavide, PORTUGAL. Even before the big coal strike of 1926 the collieries had begun to close. We had stirrup pumps to put out fires from Incendiary Bombs. It initially had a small boxer type primer and was officially designated Cartridge, S.A., Ball, Magazine Rifle, Mark 1.C. US Lend Lease production for the UK was 1,196,706 No 4 rifles whereas the total British wartime production of this rifle was 2,021,913. IMPERIAL Canadian Industries Ltd, Montreal, CANADA and Plattsburg, NY, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 2000 Millennium Mining Memorial unveiled in Victoria Jubilee Park. DI Defence Industries, Verdun, CANADA. Known to have produced .303 cartridges with this headstamp April 1921 to December 1923, although some also produced in March 1924. Band Stand refurbished to its former state. T = Tikkakoski Arsenal - Finland. 1886 The Sparkbrook factory of the National Arms and Ammunition Co was sold to the government[2] in order to secure the production of small arms. Martha Liddle, J.P., was the first person from Spennymoor to be awarded the M.B.E. It stands above the Wear Valley approximately seven miles south of Durham. 1928 Spennymoor Golf Club opened at North Close. 1970 Moor Grange sheltered accommodation completed. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: Ball, Mks 7 and 8Z. 1877 New iron Railway Bridge replaced the old wooden Bridge over the High Street. The Norman Conquest meant little to the border folk initially, for they had lived with the constant threat of massacre by raiding Picts and Danes, but then Williams soldiers laid waite the county and distributed the Saxon nobles estates among themselves. They had a filling factory at Abbey Wood and later during the 1939-45 war a filling factory at Farnham. Page Bank colliery opened. This factory was set up as part of the 1939-1945 war emergency expansion plan. . This factory made and marked cases but filling was carried out at the Royal Ordnance Factory Swynnerton, Staffs. The next day the main bodies of the two armies met at Nevilles Cross, near Durham, and the Scots were slaughtered. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded Imperial Japanese Navy Year Type 92 Machine Gun ammunition which is interchangeable with the .303 cartridge in: ZV Zbrojovka Brno, Brno, CZECHOSLOVAKIA. During WW1 Greenwood & Batley are known to have produced in excess of 705 million .303 Mk 7 cartridges. 1867 The Black Horse public house built in Tudhoe. text of this web site is available under the Creative 1985 There were 12 Royal Ordnance Factories still in operation. information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the This producer is now known as Metallwerk Elisenhutte GmbH Nassau. This story has been placed in the following categories. 1897 Kenmirs furniture factory opens in Silver Street. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded .303 (identified on headstamp as 7.70) cartridges during 1918 in: Also known to have produced ball rounds in the 1920s and 30s, A VE Atelier de Construction de Valence, FRANCE. Gas Works opened for lighting in Spennymoor. Download. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded .303 cartridges in: 180 & 215 gr jacketed soft point sporting ammunition, RR or RRCO Ross Rifle Co, Montreal, CANADA. Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. 1921 Royal Ordnance took over the National Filling Factories. List of sites of Royal Ordnance Factories. Royal Ordnance Factory. 2005 BAe Land Systems Munitions and Ordnance employs about 1650 people at sites including the former RO sites at Birtley, Bishopton, Bridgwater, Chorley, Glascoed, Radway Green and Shrivenham. Manufactured .303 cartridges with this headstamp March 1925 to April 1926. 13 Oct 2022 - Notice to Royal Ordnance Pension Scheme ("The Scheme") Members. Grace's Guide To British Industrial History, https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/index.php?title=Royal_Ordnance&oldid=1277361, Creative This company represents the only new commercial ammunition manufacturer put into business by the Government as a result of demand in the 1914- 18 war. This round, as originally adopted, consisted of a 215 grain, round nosed, cupro nickel jacketed bullet in front of 71.5 grains of RFG2 Blackpowder. Slightly before that, in the 1860s, a rather advanced area of working-class housing had been erected at Tudhoe Grange built by Marmaduke Salvin to house local workers. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded .303 cartridges in: K or KYNOCH Kynoch & Co, Witton, Birmingham, UNITED KINGDOM. SMI Societa Metallurgica Italiana, Campo Tizzoro, ITALY. With the creation of the Ministry of Munitions, it was a logical step for that Ministry to take over supervision of these factories and co-ordinate their production with that of the other National Factories then being established. Spennymoor Health Centre opened. Initially ICI Ltd were to have operated this plant but they were advised in 1940 of the change in plans and the factory was run as a Royal Ordnance Factory by the Ministry of Supply. .303 cartridges known to have been produced with the Blackpole headstamped cases from 1941 to 1945 are: Ball, Cordite Mk 7 Cartridge Rifle Grenade, Ballistite H Mk 1Z Dummy, U Mk 5 Incendiary, B Mk 6Z and B Mk 7Z Tracer, G Mks 2, 3 and 4 In 1677 the small freeholders and the local gentry divided 243 acres of the moor between themselves, an act which was confirmed by the Chancery Court. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose filled .303 cartridges in: 174 gr Full jacket boat tail bulleted ammunition, 150 and 174 gr jacketed soft point sporting ammunition. This of course was not the total number of .303 rifles produced in the UK during WW2, as the SMLE Rifle No 1 was still being manufactured, BSA alone producing nearly a quarter of a million No 1 Mk III and III* rifles. WCC Western Cartridge Co., East Alton, Ill., UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Most of the content on this site is created by our users, who are members of the G18F1 or C18F1 Government Cartridge Factory No 1, Blackheath, Staffs., UNITED KINGDOM. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: MJB Incendiary Annexe to MJ Hendon, AUSTRALIA. E or EB Eley Brothers, Edmonton, London, UNITED KINGDOM. Beretta Group owns now the Tikka arms brand. Engineering - This type of factory produced bomb and shell casings and other metal-based components for all types of munitions. By 1860, the factory was producing more than 90,000 rifles, or 1,744 a week. 1909 Pavilion Roller Skating Rink (The Rink) built in Clarence Street. Known to have produced 7.7 x 56R ball cartridges which are interchangeable with the .303 cartridge. It was intended as a training aid only, for the observation of long range shooting where accuracy of fire was not always easily defined, even if tracer ammunition was used. Known to have manufactured nitro-cellulose loaded .303 Ball, Mk 7 cartridges. Download. Between 1988 and 1992 the Gordon Street factory used the monogram AFF. He was in a parachute regiment when Italy capitulated. The BBC is not responsible for the content of any external sites Chamber pressure however was higher at 20 21 tons per square inch compared to the 19.5 tons per square inch of the Mark VII round. Wolsey adopted by people of Spennymoor. This factory was set up as part of the 1939-45 war emergency expansion plan. Coloured bands on the cartridge case are not common but the following have been used: One inch blue band Reduced charge ball to simulate stoppages in Vickers aircraft guns. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: KF or K Indian Government Ammunition Factory Kirkee (or Kirkee Arsenal), near Poona, INDIA. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded .303 Ball Mk 7 cartridges during the period 1914 1918. This fortress must have been of great strength, for it stood on a height above the River Wear; many coins, urns, altars and pieces of Roman pottery have been found, as well as the remains of a hypocaust of the heating system. This factory was part of the 1939-45 war emergency expansion plan. Proof, Cordite Mk 1, Mk 2, Mk 3, Q Mk 3, Q Mk 4 and Q Mk 5, Tracer SPG(VII.G) Mk 1 and SPG(VII.G) Mk1Z, Tracer G Mk 1, G Mk 1 Special, G Mk 2, G Mk 3 and G Mk 4, Experimental steel anti fouling bulleted rounds, Experimental Armour Piercing Tracer (1917-18), Experimental Explosive, RTS and RTT Cartridges, Experimental Grenade Launching Cartridges. 1855 Foundation stone laid at St Pauls Church. 1996 Tony Blair, M.P., opens the new Page Bankroad bridge. This factory was also set up as part of the 1939-45 war emergency expansion plans. The Mark VI round was introduced in 1904 with a 215 grain jacketed round nosed bullet similar to the Mark II bullet but with a thinner jacket. 1918 World War l ended in victory for the Allies. people who designed and built them. Spennymoor became part of the South West Durham depressed area. 1880 Tudhoe Iron Works produced 17,000 tons of iron and 2,000 tons of steel. EGYPT is known to have produced .303 ball ammunition at the Government Arsenal Shoubra, United Arab Republic and Factory No 10 at Alexandria, Egypt. RH Raleigh Cycle Co, Nottingham, UNITED KINGDOM. Tudhoe and Spennymoor Local History Society founded. As a result, many hundreds of immigrant workers came here from the Midlands and more rows of dark little houses were erected. Temple, Collectors Cartridge Catalogue No 29 by Conjay Arms Company Ltd, Whitneys Heritage, A Study of Cartridges Manufactured by The Colonial Ammunition Company in New Zealand. Today, Merrington church is one of the most prominent local landmarks. ROF Queniborough; Filling Factory No. Nobel Industries in turn was to become part of the new giant Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd when it was formed in 1926. Tracer Mk VII.G, G Mk 1, G Mk 2, G Mk 2Z, G Mk 3, Tracer G Mk 3Z, G Mk 4, G Mk 5, G Mk 6, G Mk 6Z, G Mk 7, G Mk 8 and G Mk 8Z, 180 gr Jacketed soft point sporting ammunition, Streamlined Pattern 1936-37 Match Cartridge, Bulleted blanks for Bren, Lewis and Vickers, Experimental armour piercing incendiary (1956). 1889 William Anderson was appointed Director General of Ordnance Factories, responsible for the ordnance factories, laboratory, carriage department and gun factory at Woolwich Arsenal, the small-arms factories at Enfield and Birmingham, and the gunpowder factory at Waltham Abbey. The main factor was the opening in 1941 of a Royal Ordnance Factory at Merrington Lane and since then this estate has provided a constant source of alternative employment to the . Known to have produced .303 ball cartridges c 1934. 8; . The headstamp code G, denoting manufacturer, should not be confused with G as in GIV indicating a tracer cartridge. Penny Rate Product 23,000. British military contracts 1914 1917, Ball, Mk 7Z (Canadian Pattern). .303 cartridges known to have been produced with the Blackpole headstamped cases from 1941 to 1945 are: Cartridge Rifle Grenade, Ballistite H Mk 1Z. 1985 Victoria Jubilee Park purchased by the Town Council. RG Royal Ordnance Factory, Radway Green, Cheshire, UNITED KINGDOM. Should the reader be aware of any omissions in this manufacturers listing then the author would be very pleased to hear from them. Download. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: Blank, Nitro-cellulose L Canadian Mk 1 (1955 & 1956). Dunkirk survivors housed in halls and schools. These soft nosed and hollow pointed bullets were considered however to be in contravention of the St Petersburg Declaration and the Hague Convention, in 1903 they were withdrawn from active service and were afterwards to be used solely for target practice. All these villages had common rights on the moor but, as it became denuded by increasing flocks, some of the local people were induced to relinquish their rights and so, gradually, the common became the property of just one owner Merrington Priory. Call Us: 01388 815276 manufacturing in Britain. King Street Council School built. There is, however, space for expansion and land is available on the Green Lane Industrial Estate. 01388 815276 1906 Birmingham Small Arms Co took over the Royal Small Arms Factory at Sparkbrook[5]. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded 7.7 x 56R ball ammunition which is interchangeable with the .303 cartridges. Up with a target or the ground Twin Cities Ordnance Plant - Salt Lake City, City. 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