We had stirrup pumps to put out fires from Incendiary Bombs. KN Kings Norton Metal Co., Birmingham, UNITED KINGDOM. FN Fabrique National dArmes de Guerre, Herstal, BELGIUM. Incendiary Buckingham (VII.B), B Mk 1, B Mk 2Z, B Mk 4,B Mk 4. 1855 Foundation stone laid at St Pauls Church. 1887 Renamed the Royal Ordnance Factories, control passed to the financial secretary's Civil Department. This company manufactured ammunition from an early stage, finally ceasing production in the late 1950s. In the event that you consider anything on this page to be in breach of the site's House Rules, please click here. 1763 The Greenwich magazine was moved to Purfleet. 1811 The Royal Small Arms Factory site at Enfield was purchased. Royal Navy Destroyer H.M.S. 1940 German H.E. On UK Government contracts 1914 1915. ROF Blackburn. Engineering - This type of factory produced bomb and shell casings and other metal-based components for all types of munitions. Set up as part of the 1939-45 war emergency expansion plans. Manufactured .303 cartridges with this headstamp January 1924 to February 1925. E or EB Eley Brothers, Edmonton, London, UNITED KINGDOM. In 1923 only four houses were built and there was still massive overcrowding in back to back properties. IS - Royal Ordnance Pension Scheme - 2022. Byers Green and Kirk Merrington redeveloped. This factory was set up as part of the 1939-1945 war emergency expansion plan. These factories were given the designation Royal Ordnance Factories (ROF). Cost 87,000. Known to have manufactured .303 cartridges in: GKB or K George Kynoch, Birmingham, UNITED KINGDOM. MW Small Arms Ammunition Factory No 6, Welchpool, AUSTRALIA. The plaque was unveiled on the former Royal Ordnance Factory building, now an activity centre, by 100-year-old angel Muriel Scott. FC Federal Cartridge Co, Anoka, Minn., UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Over the next 2 years about 40000 was invested in re-equipping the factory[3]. 1807 Small arms manufacture moved to the Royal Manufactory of Small Arms at Lewisham. 2003 Spennymoor Cemetery Memorial Garden officially opened. Inside, the most interesting feature is the screen, a typical example of late-17th century work. Neither Britons nor Romans cultivated the moor, but on the site of Binchester, a village five miles to the south-west, the Romans built a camp around which grew up the settlement of Vinovium. .303 cartridges known to have been produced with the Blackpole headstamped cases from 1941 to 1945 are: Cartridge Rifle Grenade, Ballistite H Mk 1Z. those of the BBC. As a general rule the absence of a colour coding indicates a standard ball cartridge. I remember lads coming home from Dunkirk, I helped WRVS to feed and sew stripes on their clothes. Providing . Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: Tracer G Mk 2 (Australian Pattern) (projectiles were filled by MS at Salisbury). 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. The round nose bullet form of the Black Powder Mark 1 and 2 and of the Cordite Mark 1 and 2 were felt by many servicemen to have less man stopping effect than the old lead .45 inch Martini bullet, the predecessor in service of the .303 cartridge. A National School was built and opened in 1841; St.Pauls Church was built at Spennymoor in 1858 and all through these formative years the Non-conformist churches combined welfare work with prayer. Amongst the many hundreds of guns produced during his administration, which were at least 50% more powerful than the guns they superseded, not a single failure or accident of any kind occurred. A nursery school was opened in the park to look after children while mothers did war work. ROF Bishopton; Explosive ROF (3 factories). Population 16,369. Spennymoor had elected Labour MPs for many years, but in recent times the area has become more marginal. In 1963 too there came the first private building developments to take place since back in the days of the 19th century colliery owners. 1994 Town wins National Allotment Society Waterlow Trophy. MJ Small Arms Ammunition Factory No 4, Hendon, AUSTRALIA. Woolwich Arsenal, of which the Royal Laboratory was only a part, is situated in South East London on the River Thames. Steve 11-03-2014, 06:29 PM #3 lithoman 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. 1954 Middlestone Moor housing estate commenced. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: G..F3 or C..F3 Government Cartridge Factory No 3, Blackpole, Worcestershire, UNITED KINGDOM. This company is believed to have manufactured .303 Ball, Blackpowder Mk 2 cartridges from 1890. 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. By this time we were given mugs of tea and corned beef sarnies. This factory made and marked cases but filling was carried out at the Royal Ordnance Factory Swynnerton, Staffs. A A On cartridges c 1917 indicated a Pomeroy explosive incendiary Mk 2 bullet, C on early pre 1912 cartridges denoted a Cordite propellant charge, K On cartridges c 1918 indicated a Brock explosive incendiary bullet, Z indicated a nitro-cellulose propellant charge in the cartridge. 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. The following .303 cartridges are known to have been produced since 1889: Armour Piercing Mks VII.S, VII.P, VII.PZ, VII.W, VII.WZ, W Mk 1, Ball, Cordite Mks 1, 2, 2*, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7, Ball, Nitro-cellulose Mks 7z, 8z & 7z RC ( reduced charge ), Ball, Short Range Practice, Cordite Mks 1,2,3 and 4, Cartridge Rifle Grenade, Cordite Mks 1 and 2, Cartridge Discharger, Blackpowder E Mk 1T, Drill D Mk 6, D Mk 6*, D Mk 7, D Mk 8 and D Mk 9, Explosive R Mk 1, R Mk 2, R Mk 3, and R Mk 3*. Its largest division was ammunition followed by tanks and fighting vehicles, which had factories at Leeds and Nottingham[8]. This was confirmed by experience gained in the Chitral and Tirah expeditions of 1897/98 on the North West Frontier of India where the round nose ball round compared poorly against the .303 inch Dum Dum rounds specially issued in 1897. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded 7.7 x 56R ammunition, which is interchangeable with the .303 cartridge in: T.BLAND & SONS Commercial .303 ammunition loaded by T. Bland & Sons, London, UNITED KINGDOM in ball and sporting configurations. This company was formed in 1897 and was a wholly owned subsidiary of Nobels explosive company who also owned a further ammunition plant, fully acquired in 1907, at Waltham Abbey, Essex. Royal Ordnance Factories were for explosives manufacture, filling of munitions and engineering. Her advance guards clashed with some of Douglas men near Ferryhill and chased them back to the bridge at Croxdale (Sunderland Bridge). 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). 11. ETHIOPA is known to have produced .303 ball cartridges c 1959, FINLAND is known to have produced .303 inch cartridges in various loadings including Armour Piercing, Ball, Incendiary, Tracer and Drill rounds, FRANCE manufactured several variants of the .303 cartridge, including: Ball, Tracer, Armour piercing, Armour piercing / Tracer and Incendiary rounds, IRAQ is known to have produced .303 Ball cartridges, ISRAEL is known to have manufactured .303 ball cartridges at the Government Arsenal, Tel Aviv, Israel. The following .303 cartridges are known to have been produced by Kynoch: Armour Piercing Mks VII.S, VII.P, VII.W, W Mk 1 and W Mk 1Z, Ball, Nitro-cellulose Mk 8z with Aluminium Case, Drill, D Mk 6, D Mk 8, D Mk 9 and D Mk 10. After the war in 1918 Kynoch Ltd, in common with most other British small arms ammunition manufacturers, was merged into Explosives Trades Ltd, later to become Nobel Industries. Solid Case, .303inch. T = Tikkakoski Arsenal - Finland. Royal Ordnance, including the Royal Ordnance Factories, makers of guns, ammunition and explosives. Known to have manufactured .303 cartridges in: Ball, Nitro-cellulose Mk 7Z ( Late Pattern ), Blank, Nitro-cellulose L Mk 5Z ( Canadian Pattern ). 1891 Whitworth Hall restored after fire of 1877. do not work properly without it enabled. We were then introduced to a number of Canadian boys. The Captain without thinking shouted 'shoot the bugger' and this is what the lads did and were in serious trouble. Royal Small Arms Factory Factory No 2. This factory manufactured cartridges for use by the British Army in India as well as the Indian Army. 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. people who designed and built them. During the period ending with the 1914-18 war Kynoch, which by then was the largest of the British commercial ammunition manufacturers, owned rolling mills at Witton; at Lodge Road, Birmingham and at Eyre Street, Birmingham. The arms factory was closed in 1987. manufacturing in Britain. Although these were the only houses built before the war, they did provide some hope and allowed the clearance of some of the worst of the squalid areas. Gas Works opened for lighting in Spennymoor. 1989 Byers Green Village Hall extended and refurbished. 1951 Population 19,740. The small number of factories involved in nuclear weapons production, ROF Burghfield and ROF Cardiff, did not pass over to Royal Ordnance upon privatisation but were transferred to the control of AWRE. It was really pitiful, these lads had had a terrible time. DL16 6DG. 1966 Bus Station and Parkwood Precinct opened. Housing, too, has made great strides since the end of the War. 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. When U used with a diamond this indicates manufacture in a subsidiary factory at Kimberley. Factory in operation 1828 1919. On British military contracts 1940-45 180 & 215 gr jacketed soft point sporting ammunition. The USA had also produced the .303 Pattern 1914, also known as the Rifle No 3 Mk 1 or 1*, for the British Government during the First World War. 8 ROF Birtley. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded Imperial Japanese Navy Year Type 92 Machine Gun ammunition, which is interchangeable with the .303 cartridge in: F or AF or SAAF Small Arms Ammunition Factory, Footscray, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA. Childrens play areas upgraded by the provision of safety surfacing at eight sites. They factories employed 300,000 people and were responsible for producing two-thirds of guns made in the UK and a similar proportion of the ammunition[7]. Find out how you can use this. Cordite consisted of 58% Nitro-glycerine, 37% Nitro-cellulose and 5% Mineral Jelly and was normally pressed into cord form but tubular, tape, flaked and sliced cordite were also used. 102.56 KB. Incendiary B Mk 3, B Mk 4Z*, B Mk 6, B Mk 6Z. Known to have produced .303 ball cartridges . Royal Powder Mill Factory No 31. Brighter Days The town was founded over 160 years ago. Ammunition was made at Woolwich long before the adoption of the .303 cartridge in 1889. Spennymoor is a town in County Durham, England. At the factory we made .303 and .5 cases and caps, as well as bullets. This factory was set up as part of the 1939-45 war emergency plans and produced its first complete .303 rounds in October 1940. 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. 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. High Street, B,J,M or N Birmingham Metal and Munitions Co Ltd., Birmingham, UNITED KINGDOM. Known to have produced .303 ball cartridges, A.VIS Atelier de Fabrication de Vincinnes, FRANCE. CAC Colonial Ammunition Co., Melbourne, AUSTRALIA. This Military Arsenal became Nederland Wapen & Munitiefabrikde Kruithoorn NV,s Hertogenbosch and later became Eurometaal. Butchers Race, one of the Five Lanes which meet at Tudhoe Crossroads, was so named after this foray. The works then possessed the largest mill in Europe, capable of rolling plates up to 13 feet in width. BM British Munitions Co Ltd, Millwall, London, UNITED KINGDOM. The three historic state-controlled munitions factories at Woolwich, Enfield, and Waltham Abbey were taken over as National Factories were controlled by the Army Board at the outbreak of the war, under the Master General of the Ordnance. A or AI Artillerie Inrichtingen, Hembrug, NETHERLANDS. 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. The .303 British Service cartridge, commonly known as the .303 or .303 British was adopted by Britain along with the Lee Metford Rifle in 1889. 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. ROF Blackburn. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded .303 Ball cartridges 1923. Town Hall, We were then taken to the canteen for lunch, which consisted of battered spam and chips. Known to have produced 7.7 x 56R ball cartridges, which are interchangeable with the .303 cartridge. Spennymoor, Tudhoe and Spennymoor Local History Society founded. This is an insight into the Aycliffe Royal Ordnance Factory, ROF 59, (1941-1945) and the 'Aycliffe Angels'. WCC Western Cartridge Co., East Alton, Ill., UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Nitro-cellulose filled .303 American WW1 Contract Pattern cartridges were produced during the period 1914 1917 as. During the battle, the prior from Durham and his monks knelt on a little hillock in the Shaw Wood and prayed for an English victory while holding aloft, impaled on a spear, the Holy Corporax Cloth from the Cathedral. These squalid conditions were paralleled by the ever-uncertain economic conditions in industry. 2. The views expressed are theirs and unless specifically stated are not 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). 1988 Spennymoor Cricket Club Ground purchased. In addition to these plants the original cap production was maintained at Witton. Known to have manufactured nitro-cellulose loaded .303 Ball, Mk 7 cartridges. 17. 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