Although these days of rapid industrialisation and rapid growth of population were days of ignorance and squalor, they also saw the 19th century drive for education and religion. 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 7.7 x 56R ball cartridges, which are interchangeable with the .303 cartridge. I remember lads coming home from Dunkirk, I helped WRVS to feed and sew stripes on their clothes. We used to shelter under the stairs during air raids. Mr Hosie who was chauffeur for ROF at the time was our driver. Although schemes were inaugurated to relieve the gloom nothing could make up for the lack of steady employment. 1898 North Eastern Hotel destroyed by fire. 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. Demolition of High Street Railway Bridge. people who designed and built them. WCC Western Cartridge Co., East Alton, Ill., UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Powder was stored at Greenwich from an early date. 1964 Black and decker open factory at Green Lane. During WW1 Greenwood & Batley are known to have produced in excess of 705 million .303 Mk 7 cartridges. MJ Small Arms Ammunition Factory No 4, Hendon, AUSTRALIA. 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. 1966 Bus Station and Parkwood Precinct opened. Known to have produced .303 cartridges 1914 1918 in: MAXIM Maxim Arms Co.,London, UNITED KINGDOM. 1992 Jubilee Park wins Best Park in Town Award in Northumbria in Bloom Competition. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: Armour Piercing W Mk 1 and W Mk 1 Special. T = Tikkakoski Arsenal - Finland. This distinction was abandoned in May 1920 and thereafter all ball rounds had the purple annulus. AOC Bombrini, Parodi et Delfino, Rome, ITALY. 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. The name Binchester is the usual Saxon corruption or adaptation of the Roman site name. Population declines to 15,440.First Council houses erected on racecourse site. D Dominion Cartridge Co., Brownsberg, Quebec, CANADA. RA Raufoss Ammunisjonsfabrikker, Raufoss, NORWAY. Mon - Thurs 8:45 - 17:00, Fri 8:45 - 16:30 Known to have produced .303 ball cartridges in 1924. El Alamein. Grace's Guide To British Industrial History, https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/index.php?title=Royal_Ordnance&oldid=1277361, Creative Known to have produced .303 cartridges with this headstamp April 1921 to December 1923, although some also produced in March 1924. It was changed to a limited company in 1884 as G. Kynoch & Co Ltd and by then was manufacturing metallic ammunition. In addition there was a filling area not far away in the vicinity of Abbey Wood. This mark of bullet remained the standard ball round for the remainder of the .303 cartridges service life. 1942 1942 1943 1944 Tikkakoski Arsenal - Finland Tikkakoski was the first private arms manufacturer in Finland. FNT Fabrica Nacional de Espana, Palencia, SPAIN. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: F Small Arms Ammunition Factory, Footscray, AUSTRALIA. 1918 World War l ended in victory for the Allies. It began production of .303 Ammunition in 1941 initially with the headstamp code of two arrows replacing these in 1942 with the code SR. 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. 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. The views expressed are theirs and unless specifically stated are not Post-WWI Returned to lower production levels. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: Blank, Nitro-cellulose L Canadian Mk 1 (1955 & 1956). This factory made and marked cases but filling was carried out at the Royal Ordnance Factory Swynnerton, Staffs. ROF Bishopton; Explosive ROF (3 factories). RTS Richard Threlfall and Sons, 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: ZV Zbrojovka Brno, Brno, CZECHOSLOVAKIA. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded .303 cartridges in: Cartridge Rifle Grenade, H Mk 7Z, M11 and M12, FNM Fabrica Nacional de Municoes e Armas Legeiras, Moscavide, PORTUGAL. In 1935 the .303 O Mark 1 Observing round was introduced for use in machine guns. SMI Societa Metallurgica Italiana, Campo Tizzoro, ITALY. SR = Royal Ordnance Factory - Spennymoor, United Kingdom. Object details Category Weapons and ammunition Related period Second World War (production), Second World War (association) Creator Royal Ordnance Factory Spennymoor (GB & Durham) Production date 1942 1942 1943 1944 Tikkakoski Arsenal - Finland Tikkakoski was the first private arms manufacturer in Finland. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: Tracer G Mk 2 (Australian Pattern) (projectiles were filled by MS at Salisbury). ROF Brackla; ROF 41 at Brackla and ROF 53 at Waterton, ROF Dunham on the Hill; Explosives storage depot. Between 1988 and 1992 the Gordon Street factory used the monogram AFF. Should the reader be aware of any omissions in this manufacturers listing then the author would be very pleased to hear from them. You appear to have JavaScript disabled in your browser settings. Known to have produced 7.7 x 56R ball cartridges, which are interchangeable with the .303 cartridge post 1961. 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. HXP Greek Powder and Cartridge Co, Athens, GREECE. Used on military .303 (7.7 x 56R) cartridges supplied to Egypt in the period 1948 1954. FC Federal Cartridge Co, Anoka, Minn., UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. On nitro-cellulose loaded .303 Mk 7z Ball cartridges made by FNM of Moscavide, PORTUGAL. .303 cartridges known to have been produced with the Blackpole headstamped cases from 1941 to 1945 are: Cartridge Rifle Grenade, Ballistite H Mk 1Z. ROF Blackburn. Gas Works opened for lighting in Spennymoor. 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). In the event that you consider anything on this page to be in breach of the site's House Rules, please click here. I was given a badge for helping to raise money for the war effort. 8 ROF Birtley. Do Hirtenberg Patronenfabrik factory at Dordrecht, NETHERLANDS. 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. people who designed and built them. 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*. Royal Powder Mill Factory No 31. TW = Twin Cities Ordnance Plant - Minneapolis, Minnesota. We were introduced to several top men who told us our visit had been delayed due to various reasons, because of raids and moonlight. E or EB Eley Brothers, Edmonton, London, UNITED KINGDOM. By the end of 1963 over 1,120 sub-standard houses had been cleared and as many new Council houses built for letting whilst over 400 houses had been improved by grant aid. 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. Steve 11-03-2014, 06:29 PM #3 lithoman 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. 1987 Town wins National Allotment Society Waterlow Trophy. .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 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. Martha Liddle, J.P., was the first person from Spennymoor to be awarded the M.B.E. 8). Small Arms Ammunition - This type of factory was, in essence, an Engineering factory which specialised in the production of small arms shell casings. On explosive anti Zeplin cartridges. this was examining and weighing capsules to be used in Burma for killing mosquitoes and fleas. RH Raleigh Cycle Co, Nottingham, UNITED KINGDOM. Spennymoor United AFC founded. 1913 Queen Mary visits the town. They used the MF monogram May 1926 to 1945 and the AF monogram from January 1924 to February 1925. In 1938 the .303 Mark VIIIZ round was approved to obtain greater effective range from the Vickers Medium Machine Gun. Penny Rate Product 239. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: G, GB or GBF Greenwood and Batley, Leeds, UNITED KINGDOM. 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. 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. We had workers playtime during our half hour break. In the next few years only between one and four houses were built in any year and in 1929 the housing situation was still reported as acute which, from the recorded facts, seems self-evident. 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. 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. The ROF Regiment were stationed in Spennymoor factory. TW = Twin Cities Ordnance Plant - Minneapolis, Minnesota. A or AI Artillerie Inrichtingen, Hembrug, NETHERLANDS. Aycliffe filled the cases which we produced and this was very dangerous work. 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. 13 Oct 2022 - Notice to Royal Ordnance Pension Scheme ("The Scheme") Members. It became Kynoch Ltd in 1897. 1807 Small arms manufacture moved to the Royal Manufactory of Small Arms at Lewisham. Royal Ordnance Factory. Ammunition production ceased completely at Woolwich in 1957, the last known production of .303 ammunition there being Mk 7 Ball in 1957. At the factory we made .303 and .5 cases and caps, as well as bullets. 2000 Millennium Mining Memorial unveiled in Victoria Jubilee Park. Most countries do not, unlike Britain, identify the bullet by the headstamp, so such colour markings are often the only way to identify the bullet in use. Dunkirk survivors housed in halls and schools. 1904 Tudhoe Rugby Club defunct. This is a list of Royal Ordnance Factories . This change was agreed in August 1915 and thus these sites became nominally part of the National Factory programme. 2003 Spennymoor Cemetery Memorial Garden officially opened. 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. 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. VPT Valtion Patruunatehdas, Lapua, FINLAND. 102.56 KB. Rough houses were built for the pit workers - houses with two rooms and a loft, more like. Birmingham Metal and Munitions had ceased manufacture of ammunition by 1920. After ROF I worked for C.I.E.M.E. info@spennymoor-tc.gov.uk Troubled Years International Bowls Championships held in Town. 1969 Courtaulds Ltd. open spinning factory at Green Lane. referenced. It initially had a small boxer type primer and was officially designated Cartridge, S.A., Ball, Magazine Rifle, Mark 1.C. M Nobel Explosives Ltd., Manchester, UNITED KINGDOM. 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. Penny Rate Product 23,000. 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 .303 Ball cartridges 1923. 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. On top of these economic misfortunes came the terrible explosion at Tudhoe Colliery in 1882 when 37 lives were lost. P or PC Peters Cartridge Co., Kings Mills, Ohio, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Electric lighting for Spennymoor. 1989 Byers Green Village Hall extended and refurbished. 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. 1818 The work of the Lewisham establishment was transferred to Enfield. Royal Ordnance Factory. Spennymoor had elected Labour MPs for many years, but in recent times the area has become more marginal. Dedication of Venerable Bede Mission Church. information and 237,145 images on early companies, their products and the Known to have manufactured .303 cartridges in: MH Small Arms Ammunition Factory No 3, Hendon, AUSTRALIA. The propellant interests being concentrated mainly at Ardeer within the Nobel Division of ICI. Royal Arsenal Factory No 1. Post-War: many of the factories were closed, although some were reopened for the Korean war. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded .303 cartridges in: 130gr, 150gr, 180gr and 215 gr jacketed soft point sporting ammunition, OFN Government Ordinance Factory, Lagos, NIGERIA. Types of Royal Ordnance Factories (ROFs) 1. 1942 Both pilots killed when two Hawker Hurricane aircraft collided and crashed at Tudhoe. 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. 1695 Gunpowder was also stored at Upnor Castle (later the Upnor Armaments Supply Depot) from at least as early as 1695. Page Bank colliery opened. Former Essoldo/Tivoli cinema building destroyed by fire. Edward lll was otherwise engaged at Crecy in France at the time, but his Queen, Phillipa, with the Archbishop of York, the Bishops of Durham, Lincoln and Carlisle, and the Lords Neville and Percy and others marched North, and with an array of 16,000 men, moved along the ridge from Auckland to Merrington. do not work properly without it enabled. This page has been archived and is no longer updated. Childrens play areas upgraded by the provision of safety surfacing at eight sites. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in 1942 only. DI Defence Industries, Verdun, CANADA. 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]. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: PPU or nny Prvi Partizan, Titovo Uzice, YUGOSLAVIA. 1787 Purchase of the powdermill at Waltham Abbey which was named the Royal Gunpowder Factory. 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. Early site history and production [ edit] First World War [ edit] PMP Pretoria Metal Pressings (Pty) Ltd., Pretoria, SOUTH AFRICA. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: DC Defence Industries, Brownsburgh, Quebec, CANADA. My thanks to John Kindred for clarification on the monograms used on Australian small arms ammunition. When cap annulus colours were first introduced in 1918 the Ball Mk VIIz had the annulus coloured black while the Ball Mk VII had the entire cap area coloured purple. Maintained by Sapere Software. This is a list of Royal Ordnance Factories. 1920 Durham County Water Board provides water supply. Identification Manuals Nos 1, 2, 3, and 4 on the .303 British Service Cartridge by B.A. 1855 The Ordnance Office was dissolved in 1855. 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. Used the monogram 1942 to 1943. MW Small Arms Ammunition Factory No 6, Welchpool, AUSTRALIA. Nobel Industries in turn was to become part of the new giant Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd when it was formed in 1926. Made dummy drill rounds with a one piece tinplate case and bullet and having a crimped on base in 1915. Spennymoor, United Kingdom (1913-1945). Town Hall refurbished. Download. Spennymoor, and the surrounding settlements, have a long and varied history. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Set up as part of the 1939-45 war emergency expansion plans. Factory in operation 1828 1919. Tudhoe football field created. 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. Whitworth Park Golf Club (9 holes) opens. This propellant, however, was not considered to be as stable as cordite in the tropics and cordite was, therefore, still retained as a propellant in military cartridges for the remainder of the cartridges service life. .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 When U used with a diamond this indicates manufacture in a subsidiary factory at Kimberley. 581.38 KB. Email: info@spennymoor-tc.gov.uk. The coal industry has been replaced by manufacturers of consumer goods, and factories of Electrolux, Thorn Lighting and Black and Decker were established. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded .303 cartridges in: y Toyokawa Naval Arsenal, JAPAN. Known to have manufactured 7.7 x 56R bulleted blanks, which are interchangeable with the .303 cartridge. The Badcock Armoury closed. 1945 World War II ended. There were, of course, early problems, but the new industries became established and, in most cases, began to expand. Later, Binchester became one of the vills of the Earl of Northumberland who held it until 1420 when it passed to the Nevilles who finally forfeited it with other lands in 1569. Single lineRailway Bridge built over High Street. Subsequently became part of BAE Systems Land and Armaments business. DA Dominion Arsenal, Montreal, CANADA. 1939 Outbreak of World War II. The assets of the company were taken over in 1918 by Explosives Trades Ltd which soon after was renamed Nobel Industries, this new organisation having been founded to amalgamate most of the explosives and ammunition interests of the many separate companies operating in Britain at that time. Housing, too, has made great strides since the end of the War. RG Royal Ordnance Factory, Radway Green, Cheshire, UNITED KINGDOM. manufacturing in Britain. Find out how you can use this. Known to have produced .303 ball cartridges during 1988. HN Royal Ordnance Factory, Hirwaun, South Wales, UNITED KINGDOM. New Railway station built at Spennymoor. The monogram MF1 was used for a short time in 1940 when the Gordon Street Factory commenced production. Lost in the Blackout. This factory was part of the 1939-45 war emergency expansion plan. 2001 Memorial to two Hurricane pilots killed in aircrash at Tudhoe in 1942 unveiled at York Hill Cemetery. The effect of the closure was relieved by the sinking of the Dean and Chapter colliery in 1904, but the reliance on this one basic industry was to persist until the 1960s. They had a filling factory at Abbey Wood and later during the 1939-45 war a filling factory at Farnham. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded .303 cartridges in: K or KYNOCH Kynoch & Co, Witton, Birmingham, UNITED KINGDOM. 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. Most of the content on this site is created by our users, who are members of the Its largest division was ammunition followed by tanks and fighting vehicles, which had factories at Leeds and Nottingham[8]. We were then introduced to a number of Canadian boys. Royal Arsenal Factory No 1. 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. Town wins Northumbria in Bloom (Town Section). Population 16,369. Cartridges known to have been manufactured in: MEN Maschinenfabrik Elisenhutte, Nassau, WEST GERMANY. We were also allowed inside a Halifax Bomber and according to a map we flew all over Darlington and Durham. 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