ROF Blackpool; SAA Factory. MEXICO Fabrica National de Munitions, Mexico City, MEXICO. Produced .303 Mk 7 ball ammunition in cases believed to be made by Eley. 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 . I remember lads coming home from Dunkirk, I helped WRVS to feed and sew stripes on their clothes. 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. It began production of .303 ammunition in 1941 initially with the headstamp code of two arrows replacing these in 1942 with the code SR. M Nobel Explosives Ltd., Manchester, UNITED KINGDOM. Known to have produced .303 ball cartridges. 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. It was involved in the production of .303 cartridges in only a very limited way and is known to have manufactured these cartridges in: Tracer G Mk 2 (in cases dated 1943 and 1944). Town Hall refurbished. 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. It became Kynoch Ltd in 1897. U = Utah Ordnance Plant - Salt Lake City, Utah. On top of these economic misfortunes came the terrible explosion at Tudhoe Colliery in 1882 when 37 lives were lost. 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. Cases were made in Birmingham then assembled and loaded at the Abbey Wood Factory, next to Woolwich Arsenal. B,J,M or N Birmingham Metal and Munitions Co Ltd., Birmingham, UNITED KINGDOM. More than 17,000 women worked at the factory, and Ms Scott said . 2002 Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee, Parade of Golden Roses, Jubilee Park. 1818 The work of the Lewisham establishment was transferred to Enfield. D Dominion Cartridge Co., Brownsberg, Quebec, CANADA. Dean & Chapter andMainsforth Collieries opened. ROF Blackburn. Kenmirs Furniture Factory and the old Arcadia Cinema were both destroyed by fire. The most common system with the .303 cartridge used coloured bullet tips or colour around the annulus of the primer cap. Both firms are believed to have manufactured .303 Blackpowder Mk 2 Ball Cartridges, L-E or U Remington UMC, Bridgeport, Conn., UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Penny Rate Product 239. 1904 Tudhoe Rugby Club defunct. C.E. Known to have manufactured .303 cartridges in: GKB or K George Kynoch, Birmingham, UNITED KINGDOM. MKEMakina ve Kimya Endustrisi, Kuruma, TURKEY. 1858 Page Bank Colliery disaster 10 miners killed. The following types of .303 cartridges are known to have been produced during the period 1897 to 1919: Armour Piercing Mks VII.P, VII.W and VII.W.Z, Cartridge Rifle Grenade, Ballistite H Mk 1. 39 and 40. Known to have manufactured .303 cartridges in: MH Small Arms Ammunition Factory No 3, Hendon, AUSTRALIA. This factory was part of the 1939-45 war emergency expansion plan. 1984 Royal Ordnance had 19 factories and 19000 employees when vested for privatization. Royal Ordnance, including the Royal Ordnance Factories, makers of guns, ammunition and explosives. Durham Light Infantry Brigade had lots of men from Spennymoor were sent to Oxford to train for overseas, they were billeted in a brewery in Nook Norton. info@spennymoor-tc.gov.uk Royal Small Arms Factory Enfield Factory No 2. Whitworth Hall severely damaged by fire. Later, effective tracer and incendiary composition operations were also carried out at Witton. It may be of some interest to learn that during the First World War more than 7,000 million Mk 7 ball cartridges were produced by British factories alone. Woolwich Arsenal, of which the Royal Laboratory was only a part, is situated in South East London on the River Thames. It was originally built by the Normans and its splendid strategic position led to it being fortified in 1143 by the Scots intruder, William Cumyn. It became G. Kynoch & Co Ltd in 1884 and by then was manufacturing metallic ammunition. The huge munitions factory employed some 17,000 . JAPAN is known to have manufactured nitro-cellulose loaded Imperial Japanese Army Year Type 89 Machine Gun ammunition, which is interchangeable with the .303 cartridge, without any headstamp codes in: JAPAN is also known to have manufactured nitro-cellulose Imperial Japanese Navy Year Type 92 Machine Gun ammunition, which is interchangeable with the .303 cartridge, at their Aichi Naval Arsenal, Toyokawa Naval Arsenal and Yokosuka Naval Arsenal in the following configurations, SPAIN manufactured .303 ammunition and used it on a limited scale during and after the Civil War of 1936 39. 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. This factory was set up as part of the 1939-45 war emergency expansion plan. Used code U from 1939 1961 and SAM thereafter. ROF Swynnerton; Filling Factory No. 1992 Jubilee Park wins Best Park in Town Award in Northumbria in Bloom Competition. ROF Brackla; Filling Factory No. E or EB Eley Brothers, Edmonton, London, UNITED KINGDOM. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Used the same annulus colour coding as United Kingdom for ammunition supplied under contract to the British Government during both the First and Second World Wars. U = Utah Ordnance Plant - Salt Lake City, Utah. The manufacturing departments, namely the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich, the Royal Gunpowder Factory at Waltham Abbey and the Royal Small Arms Factory (Enfield), were transferred to the War Office. however, William allowed some of the previous owners to retain their lands, and one of these was Whittleworth now Whitworth whose first known proprietor was Thomas de Acle who held it in 1183. BE or BE Royal Ordnance Factory, Blackpole, Worcester, UNITED KINGDOM. In WWII Explosives factories were established at[9]: WWII: 20 Filling factories were planned but only 16 were built including[11] [12]: WWII: Other Filling factories were devoted to Small Arms Ammunition: Grace's Guide web site design is Copyright 2021 by Grace's Guide Ltd. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: G..F3 or C..F3 Government Cartridge Factory No 3, Blackpole, Worcestershire, UNITED KINGDOM. Even before the big coal strike of 1926 the collieries had begun to close. Although the factory was completed in 1816, it was not until the 1850s that it was in a position to produce large enough quantities of weapons to service the British military after mechanised machinery from the US was installed. BLANCH J Blanch & Sons of Fenchurch St, London, UNITED KINGDOM. Gateshead refugees arrived in Spennymoor. In the event that you consider anything on this page to be in breach of the site's House Rules, please click here. Explosive bullets were not produced in the UK after about 1933 due to the relatively small amount of explosive that could be contained in the bullet limiting their effectiveness, their role being successfully fulfilled by the use of Mark 6 and 7 incendiary bullets which were also of a less complicated construction. ( A standing for Armscore ). 1951 Population 19,740. 581.38 KB. The back streets stand deep in filth and mud. 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. 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. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of IMPERIAL Canadian Industries Ltd, Montreal, CANADA and Plattsburg, NY, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: Gallery Practice Mk 1 ( Black powder Canada ), Gallery Practice Mk 1 ( Smokeless Canada ). Band Stand refurbished to its former state. 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. ROF Aycliffe; Filling Factory No. 1966 Bus Station and Parkwood Precinct opened. In 1963 changes were indicated and Durham County Council and then then Ministry of Housing and Local Government agreed that Spennymoor should be a new growth point and that town centre redevelopment should take place; that the Tudhoe ironworks site should be reclaimed; that a major highway scheme should be put into hand; that the Royal Ordnance Factory Industrial Estate should be extended and that the Green Lane Industrial Estate should be developed. Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. Royal Small Arms Factory Enfield Factory No 2. Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and ROF Steeton; SAA Factory No. The Cleveland iron trade, which used the coal and coke produced at Spennymoor, was depressed. ROF Queniborough; Filling Factory No. Demolition of High Street Railway Bridge. The Captain without thinking shouted 'shoot the bugger' and this is what the lads did and were in serious trouble. In addition to the .303 cartridges manufactured for Egypt this company also manufactured nitro-cellulose loaded 7.7 x 56R cartridges, which are interchangeable with the .303 round and are known to have been produced in: Incendiary Armour Piercing with Thermite filling, Incendiary Armour Piercing with Phosphorus filling, C.. Pirotecnico di Capua, ITALY. Johnson, who made a fortune out of it. 1931 Pilgrim Trust founds the Settlement. Royal Ordnance Factory Leeds, first opened as a munitions factory in December 1915 and opened as an ROF in January 1936, was one of a number of Royal Ordnance Factories created at the start of the Second World War . Identification Manuals Nos 1, 2, 3, and 4 on the .303 British Service Cartridge by B.A. These houses were, unusually, semi-detached and arranged in a chequerboard layout, very much in contrast to the dreary terraces that were then the standard. On UK Government contracts 1914 1915. Known to have produced .303 cartridges during the period 1940 1944 in: C-P Crompton Parkinson Ltd, Doncaster, Yorkshire, UNITED KINGDOM. 1996 Tony Blair, M.P., opens the new Page Bankroad bridge. 1763 The Greenwich magazine was moved to Purfleet. people who designed and built them. After May 1918 the CAC monogram was used with two arrows . As a result, many hundreds of immigrant workers came here from the Midlands and more rows of dark little houses were erected. MQ Small Arms Ammunition Factory No 5, Rocklea, AUSTRALIA. This is an insight into the Aycliffe Royal Ordnance Factory, ROF 59, (1941-1945) and the 'Aycliffe Angels'. 1970 Moor Grange sheltered accommodation completed. 1939 Outbreak of World War II. These factories were given the designation Royal Ordnance Factories (ROF). Royal Ordnance Factory, ROF, Blackburn was part of the Ministry of Defence organisations producing components for the manufacture of armaments and arms related equipment from the late 1930 until after WWII. This company is believed to have manufactured .303 Ball, Blackpowder Mk 2 cartridges from 1890. 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. Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Gas Works opened for lighting in Spennymoor. Production of ammunition ceased in 1944. 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). Royal Navy Destroyer H.M.S. P or PC Peters Cartridge Co., Kings Mills, Ohio, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. c 1948. King Street Council School built. Dedication of Venerable Bede Mission Church. Commonly known locally as the "Fuse" or "Fuze", because the majority of components in production related to the fuse mechanisms used on most explosive devices at the time, bombs. The Badcock Armoury closed. SR = Royal Ordnance Factory - Spennymoor, United Kingdom. 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. Population declines to 15,440.First Council houses erected on racecourse site. The cases were made by BSA for Maxim machine guns in the 1890s. Colour coding appears in several forms on small arms ammunition. I worked at the Royal Ordnance factory (ROF) at Spennymoor. K2 Imperial Chemical Industries Kynoch factory at Standish, near Wigan, Lancs, UNITED KINGDOM. Known to have produced 7.7 x 56R ball cartridges, which are interchangeable with the .303 cartridge post 1961. I remember Lord Haw Haw on radio speaking from Germany calling. In 1918 this factory was capable of producing at the rate of about 10 million rounds per month. 1942 There were 42 Royal Ordnance factories at this time, of which 24 were engineering, 8 made explosives, and 10 were engaged in filling ordnance (these numbers seem to have been confused by the MP reporting these statistics). Similar jacketed hollow point bullets were used in the Mark IV and V rounds. Its largest division was ammunition followed by tanks and fighting vehicles, which had factories at Leeds and Nottingham[8]. This company manufactured ammunition from an early stage, finally ceasing production in the late 1950s. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded .303 cartridges in: Ball, Mk 7. Incendiary Buckingham (VII.B), B Mk 1, B Mk 2Z, B Mk 4,B Mk 4. EGYPT is known to have produced .303 ball ammunition at the Government Arsenal Shoubra, United Arab Republic and Factory No 10 at Alexandria, Egypt. Download. Used the monogram 1942 to 1945. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: NORMA or norma Norma Projectilfabrik, Amotfors, SWEDEN. RTS Richard Threlfall and Sons, UNITED KINGDOM. There is, however, space for expansion and land is available on the Green Lane Industrial Estate. One evening, in December 1940, when I . In 1918 this factory had the capacity to produce about 5.4 million rounds per month. In addition to these plants the original cap production was maintained at Witton. 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. British military contracts 1914 1917, Ball, Mk 7Z (Canadian Pattern). Policy. Town wins Northumbria in Bloom (Town Section). 1855 Foundation stone laid at St Pauls Church. This is a list of Royal Ordnance Factories . V.E.Day. information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the 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. 1988 Spennymoor Cricket Club Ground purchased. In addition to colour coding, British and Commonwealth .303 ammunition had a letter code pre 1955 to denote the type of bullet as well as the type of propellant charge. DA Dominion Arsenal, Montreal, CANADA. The Spennymoor Ammunition was filled at the Royal Ordnance Factory, Aycliffe, Durham. 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. This factory was set up as part of the 1939-45 war emergency plans and produced its first complete .303 rounds in October 1940. public. Known to have produced .303 ball cartridges. Known to have produced 7.7 x 56R ball cartridges, which are interchangeable with the .303 cartridge. Known to have produced .303 ball cartridges during 1988. The only portion of the common that was left was a small plot reserved for the use of a spring of water. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded 7.7 x 56 M917 ball ammunition, which is interchangeable with the .303 cartridge, AF Small Arms Factory, Footscray, AUSTRALIA. The greatest project came with the development of the Tudhoe ironworks site 70 acres that was turned into the Bessemer Park Housing Estate. Incendiary bombs burn down Tudhoe Colliery Co-op. As a general rule the absence of a colour coding indicates a standard ball cartridge. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: Ball, Nitro-cellulose Mk 7 ( Canadian WW1 contract pattern ) 1914-16, Ball, Nitro-cellulose Mk 7Z ( Canadian Pattern ), Tracer G Mk 2Z, G Mk 4Z ( Canadian Pattern ). The following sections attempt to identify the manufacturers of the .303 cartridge and whilst it is acknowledged that this may not a complete listing I hope it will give some insight into this historically important cartridge. 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. The 800 house estate at Greenways and the 300 house estate at Tudhoe Grange were started, although it was not until the industrial prosperity of the 1970s that private house building reached 100 a year. It is impossible to walk between the rows of cottages without being convinced that the surface of the ground is to a large extent composed of the overflowing contents of these midden boxes. This factory is known to have produced .303 cartridges in: PS or S Pirotechnico Militar de Seville, SPAIN. BPD Bombrini, Parodi et Delfino, Rome ITALY. The MG monogram was changed to MF in 1949 which was used until 1962. Spennymoor Health Centre opened. The propellant interests being concentrated mainly at Ardeer within the Nobel Division of ICI. Download. When he was finally attacked and overcome, the church roof was destroyed but the building remained as one of most interesting Norman churches in the county until 1850 when it was almost wholly rebuilt although retaining the form of its predecessor. Please click here guns, ammunition and explosives Bombrini, Parodi et,. 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