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. Spennymoor, Rough houses were built for the pit workers houses with two rooms and a loft, more like piggeries than human habitation according to Dodd. Royal Arsenal Factory No 1. 1887 Renamed the Royal Ordnance Factories, control passed to the financial secretary's Civil Department. 8 ROF Beech Hill, Wigan ROF Birtley. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded .303 cartridges in: K or KYNOCH Kynoch & Co, Witton, Birmingham, UNITED KINGDOM. 1976 750,000 Spennymoor Recreation Centre opened. 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 D Dominion Cartridge Co., Brownsberg, Quebec, CANADA. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded .303 cartridges: Ball, Mk 7 for 1914 1917 military contracts, Ball, Mk 7Z ( American WW2 Contract Pattern ). . G18F1 or C18F1 Government Cartridge Factory No 1, Blackheath, Staffs., UNITED KINGDOM. Royal Small Arms Factory Enfield Factory No 2. When, in 1894, Spennymoor and its adjacent villages achieved a measure of self government on the Spennymoor Urban District Council, the new authority found itself facing a legacy of poor housing. Penny Rate Product 239. 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 . 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. Beretta Group owns now the Tikka arms brand. 1995 H.M. Queen Elizabeth II visited the Thorn Lighting factory at Spennymoor. Spennymoor had elected Labour MPs for many years, but in recent times the area has become more marginal. FC Federal Cartridge Co, Anoka, Minn., UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Manufactured .303 cartridges with this headstamp January 1924 to February 1925. The moor itself comes into the record in 1615 as the result of a general muster on the moor of all men able to bear arms within the bishopric, between the ages of 15 and 60; the gathering amounted to 8,320 (Fordyce). 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. Known to have manufactured nitro-cellulose loaded .303 ball cartridges for export pre 1939. this was examining and weighing capsules to be used in Burma for killing mosquitoes and fleas. 17. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: Short Range Practice ( New Zealand Pattern), 215 gr RNSP, 180 gr PSP, 180 gr HP, 174 gr PSP, 150 gr PSP, 130 gr PSP and 150 gr HP Sporting Ammunition, Mks 4 and 5 Big Game Exploder Sporting Ammunition. 1868 Spennymoor Steeplechase Meeting at the Four Lane Ends attracted 8,000 spectators. 1944 Christmas Eve a stray German VI Flying Bomb exploded in Tudhoe Cricket Club field at 6 am D-Day, 6th June. When operational, the Bishopton site was the Royal Ordnance's primary manufacturer of propellants for gun and rocket systems and around 75% of the . Her advance guards clashed with some of Douglas men near Ferryhill and chased them back to the bridge at Croxdale (Sunderland Bridge). For any other comments, please Contact Us. FN Fabrique National dArmes de Guerre, Herstal, BELGIUM. 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). The Dene is landscaped. 299.06 KB. Royal Powder Mill Factory No 31. 1942 1942 1943 1944 Tikkakoski Arsenal - Finland Tikkakoski was the first private arms manufacturer in Finland. 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. 13 Oct 2022 - Notice to Royal Ordnance Pension Scheme ("The Scheme") Members. 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. More workers came from Wales and Lancashire with the opening of the mine at Page Bank (ten lives were lost in a pit fire here in 1858), and with the sinking of a new pit at Tudhoe in the 1880s. 1916 Town Hall built at a cost of 18,000. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded .303 cartridges in: y Toyokawa Naval Arsenal, JAPAN. There is, however, space for expansion and land is available on the Green Lane Industrial Estate. When we arrived at Goosepool Mr Hosie was not allowed to enter the airport as it was strictly guarded. 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. Modern Spennymoor was built on mining and has its origins with the sinking of the Wittered pit in 1839. 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]. This firm was first formed by George Kynoch at Witton in 1862 as a manufacturer of percussion caps. 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. On British military contracts 1940-45 180 & 215 gr jacketed soft point sporting ammunition. 1969 Courtaulds Ltd. open spinning factory at Green Lane. These men, early industrial workers, wore their hair long and on these gala days it flowed freely over their shoulders instead of, as usually was the case, being tied in curls. Download. Page Bank colliery opened. 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. 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. This factory is known to have produced .303 cartridges in: PS or S Pirotechnico Militar de Seville, SPAIN. Some military training seems to have been given, doubtless with a view to the then unsettled state of the country due to the growing tension between Parliament and the King. 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. Produced .303 Mk 7 ball ammunition in cases believed to be made by Eley. Known to have produced both ball and blank .303 cartridges. Even by 1938 the situation had improved little. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: Tracer G Mk 2 (Australian Pattern) (projectiles were filled by MS at Salisbury). I was chosen along with 2 other girls to visit Goosepool Aerodrome (now Durham/Tees Valley International Airport), where the Canadian airmen were stationed. 1803 the Royal Carriage Department was set up, 1804 Manufacture of small arms began at the Tower of London. 1899 Control of the factories was returned to the Ordnance Department. 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. 1973 Spennymoor Town Council created a Successor Council. 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. Rough houses were built for the pit workers - houses with two rooms and a loft, more like. 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. This producer is now known as Metallwerk Elisenhutte GmbH Nassau. Smart and Brown opens on Ordnance Factory site. 1909 Pavilion Roller Skating Rink (The Rink) built in Clarence Street. 1560 The Gunpowder Mills at Waltham Abbey were opened.[1]. Other methods include colouring of part or the whole of the cartridge case. This factory manufactured cartridges for use by the British Army in India as well as the Indian Army. information and 237,145 images on early companies, their products and the Known to have produced .303 cartridges 1914 1918 in: MAXIM Maxim Arms Co.,London, UNITED KINGDOM. 1855 Foundation stone laid at St Pauls Church. Nitro-cellulose filled .303 American WW1 Contract Pattern cartridges were produced during the period 1914 1917 as. ROF Aycliffe; Filling Factory No. In 1963 too there came the first private building developments to take place since back in the days of the 19th century colliery owners. It initially had a small boxer type primer and was officially designated Cartridge, S.A., Ball, Magazine Rifle, Mark 1.C. DWM Deutsche Waffen Und Munitionsfabrik, Karlsruhe, GERMANY. This factory was part of the 1939-45 war emergency expansion plan. Cartridge cases were being produced by late 1940 but the ball bullets were still being imported into the factory in 1941. The one good road was maintained by tolls collected at turnpike gates. Mr. Leslie. 1949 Bungalows built at Middlestone Moor. Spennymoor Settlement, opened in 1931 with a grant from the Pilgrim Trust, aimed to support the unemployed by encouraging : Tolerant neighbourliness and voluntary social service and {giving} its members opportunities for increasing their knowledge, widening their interests and cultivating their creative powers in a friendly atmosphere. Next we went with the WAAFs to see how they packed parachutes for the boys. 1931 Pilgrim Trust founds the Settlement. Small Arms Ammunition - This type of factory was, in essence, an Engineering factory which specialised in the production of small arms shell casings. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded .303 cartridges in: 180 gr jacketed soft point sporting ammunition, 150 gr jacketed soft point sporting ammunition. 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. This story has been placed in the following categories. The trade depression of the late 19th century, however, caused its closure in 1882. 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. Over the next 2 years about 40000 was invested in re-equipping the factory[3]. Tracer, armour piercing and incendiary cartridges were adopted by the British Government during 1915, explosive bullets having been approved for service in 1916. This is a list of Royal Ordnance Factories . 1918 World War l ended in victory for the Allies. 1984 Royal Ordnance had 19 factories and 19000 employees when vested for privatization. Penny Rate Product 18,500. They are known to have manufactured .303 cartridges in: GA Grenfell and Accles Ltd, Perry Barr, Birmingham, UNITED KINGDOM. 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. Electric lighting for Spennymoor. Up to 1800 the moor remained largely barren and the few roads across it were dangerous. U = Utah Ordnance Plant - Salt Lake City, Utah. There was a glazeboard wad on top of the charge to protect the base of the bullet. Population 16,369. TW = Twin Cities Ordnance Plant - Minneapolis, Minnesota. 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. It began production of .303 Ammunition in 1941 initially with the headstamp code of two arrows replacing these in 1942 with the code SR. 1716 Subsequently the Royal Brass Foundry was established for the manufacture of brass ordnance. 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. Ammunition was made at Woolwich long before the adoption of the .303 cartridge in 1889. The comparative isolation of its moorland situation ended too with the opening of a branch railway from the mainline at Ferryhill in 1876. I was an Air Raid Warden which meant seeing my workmates into the air raid shelter safely and staying with them until the air raid was over after the all clear siren. In 1918 this factory was capable of producing at the rate of about 10 million rounds per month. Grace's Guide To British Industrial History, https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/index.php?title=Royal_Ordnance&oldid=1277361, Creative During WW1 Greenwood & Batley are known to have produced in excess of 705 million .303 Mk 7 cartridges. We had workers playtime during our half hour break. This is an insight into the Aycliffe Royal Ordnance Factory, ROF 59, (1941-1945) and the 'Aycliffe Angels'. DL16 6DG. The Manor of Merrington belonged successively to the priors, monks and dean and chapter of Durham Cathedral. R-P Remington Arms Co, Bridgeport, Conn., UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 1560 the Gunpowder Mills at Waltham Abbey were opened. [ 1 ] Cartridge case as Metallwerk Elisenhutte Nassau! 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