During WW1 Greenwood & Batley are known to have produced in excess of 705 million .303 Mk 7 cartridges. public. Royal Arsenal Factory No 1. This distinction was abandoned in May 1920 and thereafter all ball rounds had the purple annulus. Cost 87,000. Dunkirk survivors housed in halls and schools. ROF Blackpool; SAA Factory. This page was last edited on 27 May 2022, at 11:53. CAC Colonial Ammunition Co., Melbourne, AUSTRALIA. The one good road was maintained by tolls collected at turnpike gates. 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. It initially had a small boxer type primer and was officially designated Cartridge, S.A., Ball, Magazine Rifle, Mark 1.C. BPD Bombrini, Parodi et Delfino, Rome ITALY. A fourth royal factory, the Royal Aircraft Factory at Farnborough was also taken over by the Ministry in 1916. Tracer, armour piercing and incendiary cartridges were adopted by the British Government during 1915, explosive bullets having been approved for service in 1916. The coal mining at Whitworth and a small foundry at Merrington Lane were the earliest industries, but in 1853 the Weardale Iron and Coal Company opened its great ironworks at Tudhoe. DC Dominion Cartridge Company which later became the Dominion Ammunition Division of Canadian Industries Ltd. It became G. Kynoch & Co Ltd in 1884 and by then was manufacturing metallic ammunition. Skip to main content Hansard UK Parliament Hansard Known to have produced .303 cartridges 1914 1918 in: MAXIM Maxim Arms Co.,London, UNITED KINGDOM. M Nobel Explosives Ltd., Manchester, UNITED KINGDOM. 1716 Subsequently the Royal Brass Foundry was established for the manufacture of brass ordnance. 1787 Purchase of the powdermill at Waltham Abbey which was named the Royal Gunpowder Factory. 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. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded .303 cartridges in: W-W Winchester Western Division of Olin Industries, New Haven, Conn., UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded 7.7 x 56R ammunition which is interchangeable with the .303 cartridge in: SR Royal Ordnance Factory, Spennymoor, Durham, UNITED KINGDOM. Royal Small Arms Factory Enfield Factory No 2. SIP - Royal Ordnance Pension Scheme - 2022. The USA should therefore, along with Australia, India and the United Kingdom, be considered as one of the major producers of both .303 rifles and ammunition. I worked at the Royal Ordnance factory (ROF) at Spennymoor. ROF Queniborough; Filling Factory No. The factory at Bishopton was responsible for producing explosives and propellants from the First World War and continued to supply the Army and Royal Air Force until production ceased in 2002. 1803 the Royal Carriage Department was set up, 1804 Manufacture of small arms began at the Tower of London. Archive List > United Kingdom > Wearside and County Durham, Submitted by Christine Rome at Spennymoor Library on behalf of Elizabeth Hodgson (ne Monaghan). Kirk Merrington football field refurbished. Identification Manuals Nos 1, 2, 3, and 4 on the .303 British Service Cartridge by B.A. 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. Smart and Brown opens on Ordnance Factory site. Known to have produced .303 ball cartridges . ( A standing for Armscore ). The plaque was unveiled on the former Royal Ordnance Factory building, now an activity centre, by 100-year-old angel Muriel Scott. In 1874 the then Local Government Board had reported: Population 16,369. Monogram in use 1941 1945. Known to have produced 7.7 x 56R ball cartridges, which are interchangeable with the .303 cartridge. Inside, the most interesting feature is the screen, a typical example of late-17th century work. ROF Spennymoor; SAA Factory No. 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. Spennymoor United AFC founded. At various times it had propellant factories at Arklow, County Durham, making cordite; at Warsboro Dale, Yorkshire, making blackpowder and at Kynochtown, Stanford Le Hope, Essex, making smokeless powder. .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 One evening, in December 1940, when I . Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded .303 cartridges in: y Toyokawa Naval Arsenal, JAPAN. Used the monogram 1942 to 1945. Subsequently became part of BAE Systems Land and Armaments business. 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. 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. I remember lads coming home from Dunkirk, I helped WRVS to feed and sew stripes on their clothes. 1971 New sewage plant built at Tudhoe Mill. 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. 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 . http://www.durhamatwar.org.uk/material/569/, 1837 Spennymoors firstRailway Station built, 1839 Shaft sunk at Whitworth Park Colliery, 1841- Spennymoor National School (Dysons) opened. This factory was part of the 1939-45 war emergency expansion plan. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: Tracer G Mk 2 (Australian Pattern) (projectiles were filled by MS at Salisbury). Nevertheless, the situation remained bad and there were still far too many damp, badly lit and ventilated houses opening onto small paved yards or back streets. Even by 1938 the situation had improved little. 1877 New iron Railway Bridge replaced the old wooden Bridge over the High Street. 1871 Tower Brewery built at Tudhoe Grange. Engineering - This type of factory produced bomb and shell casings and other metal-based components for all types of munitions. High Street, The Spennymoor ammunition was then filled at ROF Aycliffe. More than 17,000 women worked at the factory, and Ms Scott said . Tudhoe and Spennymoor Local History Society founded. 1938 Reconstruction of Tudhoe Mill Sewerage Works. U or SAM South African Mint, Pretoria, SOUTH AFRICA. Providing . 1906 Police Station opens. BE or BE Royal Ordnance Factory, Blackpole, Worcester, UNITED KINGDOM. County Durham, 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. 1912 Durham Road Higher Elementary School opened. 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. Known to have produced 7.7 x 56R cartridges which are interchangeable with the .303 cartridge in: RA Remington Arms Co.,Inc., Bridgeport, Conn., UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 581.38 KB. They had a filling factory at Abbey Wood and later during the 1939-45 war a filling factory at Farnham. 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. ROF Blackburn. 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. This factory was built in 1916 and was administered on behalf of the Government by the Birmingham Metal and Munitions Co. .303 cartridge production started in early 1918 and continued until late 1918 when the factory ceased production altogether. In 1923 only four houses were built and there was still massive overcrowding in back to back properties. Spennymoor, and the surrounding settlements, have a long and varied history. do not work properly without it enabled. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: TM..B Pirotechnia di Bologna, ITALY. 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. It was selected to produce small arms ammunition as part of the 1939-1945 war emergency expansion plans. Town Centre redeveloped. Maintained by Sapere Software. This is a list of Royal Ordnance Factories . Known to have manufactured .303 cartridges in: MH Small Arms Ammunition Factory No 3, Hendon, AUSTRALIA. 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 . Download. DAC Dominion Arsenal, Quebec, CANADA. ROF Featherstone; Filling Factory No. The Gordon Street Factory used the monogram MF2 for a short time during 1940. In addition to these plants the original cap production was maintained at Witton. At the factory we made .303 and .5 cases and caps, as well as bullets. ROF Blackpole; SAA Factory No. There has been a film made about these men "The guinea pigs". The cases were made by BSA for Maxim machine guns in the 1890s. 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. Royal Ordnance Factory, Spennymoor, Durham, UK. Although coal-mining continued and the ironworks and engineering businesses were also providing employment, the start of the 20th century saw the start, too, of a long period of depression. On the one hand it brought housing efforts almost to a standstill, but on the industry front it saw the resurgence of Spennymoor as a major centre. My brother-in-law was taken prisoner in Italy. It became Kynoch Ltd in 1897. MW Small Arms Ammunition Factory No 6, Welchpool, AUSTRALIA. This factory was part of the 1939- 45 war emergency expansion plans being situated near Crewe and is still in operation. 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. Rough houses were built for the pit workers - houses with two rooms and a loft, more like. Cartridges known to have been manufactured in: MEN Maschinenfabrik Elisenhutte, Nassau, WEST GERMANY. These rounds were extensively developed over the years and saw several Mark numbers. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded .303 cartridges in: Ball, Mk 7. These appalling conditions continued into the 20th century and even by 1920 less than 10% of the town houses had water closets. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded .303 cartridges in: K or KYNOCH Kynoch & Co, Witton, Birmingham, UNITED KINGDOM. 1909 Pavilion Roller Skating Rink (The Rink) built in Clarence Street. Known to have manufactured .303 cartridges in: K4 Imperial Chemical Industries Kynoch factory at Yeading, Hayes, Middlesex, UNITED KINGDOM. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded cartridges in: APX Atelier de Construction de Puteaux, FRANCE. Custom was when the boys used these parachutes successfully it was usual for them to send a letter of thanks and a present to whoever had packed the parachute as the girls would have their name and address inside the package. When we arrived at Goosepool Mr Hosie was not allowed to enter the airport as it was strictly guarded. The Captain without thinking shouted 'shoot the bugger' and this is what the lads did and were in serious trouble. Today, Merrington church is one of the most prominent local landmarks. 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. There is, however, space for expansion and land is available on the Green Lane Industrial Estate. 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. 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). Spennymoor Health Centre opened. It began production of .303 ammunition in 1941 initially with the headstamp code of two arrows replacing these in 1942 with the code SR. By 1860, the factory was producing more than 90,000 rifles, or 1,744 a week. 1931 Pilgrim Trust founds the Settlement. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of BM British Munitions Co Ltd, Millwall, London, UNITED KINGDOM. Eley Brothers are known to have produced .303 cartridges in: Explosive Pomeroy Mk 1, PSA Mk 1, PSA (VII.A) MK 1, RL Tracer Mk 1, Tracer SPK Mk VII.T and SPG (VII.G) Mk 1Z. ROF Brackla; Filling Factory No. An era of prosperity dawned in the 1860s and 1870s when the miners were earning 1 per day. 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. As is to be expected, the moor itself offers little of historical interest but it is linked with the records of Kirk Merrington, Whitworth Old Park, Binchester, Byers Green and Tudhoe, all of which form a part of the early days of Spennymoor. Production of the .303 cartridge commenced in 1940 and the last known production of this cartridge was in 1973 with Mk 7Z Ball and Dummy Drill cartridges. 1880 Tudhoe Iron Works produced 17,000 tons of iron and 2,000 tons of steel. Known to have produced .303 ball cartridges in 1924. IS - Royal Ordnance Pension Scheme - 2022. 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. The land on which Spennymoor now stands was once a vast expanse of moorland covered with thorn and whin bushes (Spenny Moor). Royal Arsenal Factory No 1. This change was agreed in August 1915 and thus these sites became nominally part of the National Factory programme. B,J,M or N Birmingham Metal and Munitions Co Ltd., Birmingham, UNITED KINGDOM. These should not be confused with the manufacturers identification code. 01388 815276 Known to have produced .303 ball cartridges c 1937, SFM Societe Francaise des Munitions, Issy les Moulineaux, FRANCE. Known to have produced .303 ball cartridges for export. Nitro-cellulose filled .303 American WW1 Contract Pattern cartridges were produced during the period 1914 1917 as. Its largest division was ammunition followed by tanks and fighting vehicles, which had factories at Leeds and Nottingham[8]. The greatest project came with the development of the Tudhoe ironworks site 70 acres that was turned into the Bessemer Park Housing Estate. The first blow was the closure in 1901 of the ironworks which had been rendered obsolete by the pace of change elsewhere. Post-War: many of the factories were closed, although some were reopened for the Korean war. 1942 1942 1943 1944 Tikkakoski Arsenal - Finland Tikkakoski was the first private arms manufacturer in Finland. TW = Twin Cities Ordnance Plant - Minneapolis, Minnesota. ROF Blackburn. We had workers playtime during our half hour break. 1985 Victoria Jubilee Park purchased by the Town Council. Byers Green and Kirk Merrington redeveloped. 1811 The Royal Small Arms Factory site at Enfield was purchased. text of this web site is available under the Creative G18F1 or C18F1 Government Cartridge Factory No 1, Blackheath, Staffs., UNITED KINGDOM. .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 This ammunition is known to have been commercially exported by the manufacturer post 1950 to Afghanistan and India. We were chosen because we had produced the most cases in a certain time and had been neither late or absent. 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. New Railway station built at Spennymoor. 1928 Spennymoor Golf Club opened at North Close. World War II had diverse effects upon the town. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy 1962 Pavilions added to Merrington Lane playing fields. A new 3-bedroom semi cost 3,375 to buy on private housing estate. 1560 The Gunpowder Mills at Waltham Abbey were opened.[1]. 10. Copyright of content contributed to this Archive rests with the author. 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. 1988 Spennymoor Cricket Club Ground purchased. Population 19,073. Known to have produced Ilmavoimat Konekivaarin Patruuna Kal 7.70 machine gun cartridges, which are interchangeable with the .303 cartridge in: W or WRA Winchester Repeating Arms Co., New Haven, Conn., UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 1984 Royal Ordnance had 19 factories and 19000 employees when vested for privatization. It is known to have manufactured .303 cartridges in: Cartridge Rifle Grenade, Cordite H Mk 3 and H Mk 5. 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