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. One evening, in December 1940, when I . This ammunition is known to have been commercially exported by the manufacturer post 1950 to Afghanistan and India. Powder was stored at Greenwich from an early date. In 1930 the coke ovens which remained on the ironworks site were only working intermittently. 1920 Durham County Water Board provides water supply. We were also allowed inside a Halifax Bomber and according to a map we flew all over Darlington and Durham. This company is believed to have manufactured .303 Ball, Blackpowder Mk 2 cartridges from 1890. 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. The arms factory was closed in 1987. Demolition of High Street Railway Bridge. This is a list of Royal Ordnance Factories . Known to have manufactured .303 cartridges in: US United States Cartridge Co, Lowell, Mass., UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Cartridges known to have been manufactured in: MEN Maschinenfabrik Elisenhutte, Nassau, WEST GERMANY. .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 In 1918 this factory had the capacity to produce about 5.4 million rounds per month. Factory in operation 1828 1919. Town Hall refurbished. 1996 Tony Blair, M.P., opens the new Page Bankroad bridge. The Badcock Armoury closed. Known to have manufactured 7.7 x 56R bulleted blanks, which are interchangeable with the .303 cartridge. This mark of bullet remained the standard ball round for the remainder of the .303 cartridges service life. .303 cartridges known to have been produced with the Blackpole headstamped cases from 1941 to 1945 are: Cartridge Rifle Grenade, Ballistite H Mk 1Z. Royal Ordnance, including the Royal Ordnance Factories, makers of guns, ammunition and explosives. U = Utah Ordnance Plant - Salt Lake City, Utah. RTS Richard Threlfall and Sons, UNITED KINGDOM. Modern Spennymoor was built on mining and has its origins with the sinking of the Wittered pit in 1839. 299.06 KB. The one good road was maintained by tolls collected at turnpike gates. Wesleyan Church opened. Find out how you can use this. A or AI Artillerie Inrichtingen, Hembrug, NETHERLANDS. T = Tikkakoski Arsenal - Finland. In 1968 work commenced on the 1,009 houses here and this allowed the clearance of 500 unfit houses as well as the provision of housing work workers coming to the new factories. 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. It stands above the Wear Valley approximately seven miles south of Durham. 17. 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. 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]. Grace's Guide To British Industrial History, https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/index.php?title=Royal_Ordnance&oldid=1277361, Creative 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). 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. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: Gallery Practice Mk 1 ( Black powder Canada ), Gallery Practice Mk 1 ( Smokeless Canada ). The ROF Regiment were stationed in Spennymoor factory under the leadership of Captain Calderbank. 1899 Control of the factories was returned to the Ordnance Department. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded .303 cartridges in: Ball, Mk 7. RA Raufoss Ammunisjonsfabrikker, Raufoss, NORWAY. In 1420 the Manor of Whitworth and much of the other land in the vicinity, from Raby to Brancepeth, and including Old Park, Byers Green, Newfield and Tudhoe, became Neville property, and the Earl of Westmorland (a Neville) was granted a licence from Bishop Langley to impark 40 acres at Whitworth, and so began the Whitworth park of today. Lost in the Blackout. HXP Greek Powder and Cartridge Co, Athens, GREECE. Post-WWI Returned to lower production levels. 1906 Birmingham Small Arms Co took over the Royal Small Arms Factory at Sparkbrook[5]. Population rises to 19,560. Inside, the most interesting feature is the screen, a typical example of late-17th century work. Spennymoor, G18F1 or C18F1 Government Cartridge Factory No 1, Blackheath, Staffs., UNITED KINGDOM. Population 16,369. SR = Royal Ordnance Factory - Spennymoor, United Kingdom. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded .303 Ball cartridges 1923. 1990 Town Council wins Waterlow Trophy for fourth year. Ammunition was made at Woolwich long before the adoption of the .303 cartridge in 1889. The greatest project came with the development of the Tudhoe ironworks site 70 acres that was turned into the Bessemer Park Housing Estate. 1971 New sewage plant built at Tudhoe Mill. 1940 German H.E. Birmingham Metal and Munitions had ceased manufacture of ammunition by 1920. Spennymoor Leisure Pool opened cost 1.6m. The bullet to this round was designed to break up with a puff of smoke on impact with a target or the ground . List of sites of Royal Ordnance Factories. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in 1942 only. SR = Royal Ordnance Factory - Spennymoor, United Kingdom. VE Cartoucherie de Valence, FRANCE. PMP Pretoria Metal Pressings (Pty) Ltd., Pretoria, SOUTH AFRICA. information and 237,145 images on early companies, their products and the This page has been archived and is no longer updated. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: MJB Incendiary Annexe to MJ Hendon, AUSTRALIA. CHINA is known to have produced some 7.7mm rimmed ammunition for use in captured Japanese machine guns from 1945 onwards. Used the monogram 1942 to 1943. 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. 1938 Reconstruction of Tudhoe Mill Sewerage Works. Ammunition production ceased completely at Woolwich in 1957, the last known production of .303 ammunition there being Mk 7 Ball in 1957. 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. Known to have produced .303 ball cartridges, A.VIS Atelier de Fabrication de Vincinnes, FRANCE. 1954 Middlestone Moor housing estate commenced. 1928 Spennymoor Golf Club opened at North Close. The run-down of the mining industry, however, was nevertheless a serious blow. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded cartridges in: APX Atelier de Construction de Puteaux, FRANCE. 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. For any other comments, please Contact Us. By 1860, the factory was producing more than 90,000 rifles, or 1,744 a week. Beretta Group owns now the Tikka arms brand. 1875 Croxdale Colliery explosion 1 miner killed. 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. 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. This factory was part of the 1939 1945 war emergency expansion plan and was situated at Blackpole on the site of the earlier Government Cartridge Factory No 3 of 1916. 1942 1942 1943 1944 Tikkakoski Arsenal - Finland Tikkakoski was the first private arms manufacturer in Finland. RNRA Rhodesia National Rifle Association. ROF Fazakerley was a Royal Ordnance Factory rifle manufacturing plant in Fazakerley, Liverpool, which manufactured small arms such as the Sten and Sterling [1] [2] [3] submachine guns and Lee-Enfield rifle during and after World War II . 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. AOC Bombrini, Parodi et Delfino, Rome, ITALY. Known to have produced .303 cartridges 1914 1918 in: MAXIM Maxim Arms Co.,London, UNITED KINGDOM. Martha Liddle, J.P., was the first person from Spennymoor to be awarded the M.B.E. KN Kings Norton Metal Co., Birmingham, UNITED KINGDOM. ROF Spennymoor; SAA Factory No. It initially had a small boxer type primer and was officially designated Cartridge, S.A., Ball, Magazine Rifle, Mark 1.C. 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 . FC Federal Cartridge Co, Anoka, Minn., UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Made dummy drill rounds with a one piece tinplate case and bullet and having a crimped on base in 1915. King Street Council School built. Royal Small Arms Factory Factory No 2. During WW1 Eley produced in excess of 209 Million .303 Mk 7 cartridges. Royal Ordnance Factory. Manufactured .303 cartridges with this headstamp March 1925 to April 1926. Three closed in 1924 and the strike saw another two fail. ROF Steeton; SAA Factory No. those of the BBC. 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. When we arrived at Goosepool Mr Hosie was not allowed to enter the airport as it was strictly guarded. Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. By 1935 the first 66 Council houses had been built, and a year later the first 106 North Eastern Housing Association houses were erected on the Racecourse Estate site. There were, of course, early problems, but the new industries became established and, in most cases, began to expand. The new St. Charles School opened. 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. I listened to Vera Lynne and Tommy Handley who's catchphrase was 'Ta Ta for now (TTFN)'. 1969 Courtaulds Ltd. open spinning factory at Green Lane. Known to have produced .303 ball cartridges c 1937, SFM Societe Francaise des Munitions, Issy les Moulineaux, FRANCE. 1953 St Pauls Church damaged by fire. The land on which Spennymoor now stands was once a vast expanse of moorland covered with thorn and whin bushes (Spenny Moor). Band Stand refurbished to its former state. Royal Powder Mill Factory No 31. 1891 Whitworth Hall restored after fire of 1877. 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. Between 1988 and 1992 the Gordon Street factory used the monogram AFF. Also manufactured Mk VI Dummy cartridges, SBR Sellier & Bellot, Riga, LATVIA. From 1918 to 1950 it had its own parliamentary constituency, from 1950 to 1974 it was in the Durham constituency and from 1974 to 1983 in the North West Durham constituency. 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. Its head office is at Glascoed. In 1923 only four houses were built and there was still massive overcrowding in back to back properties. It was selected to produce small arms ammunition as part of the 1939-1945 war emergency expansion plans. 11. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: (The metal components for these rounds were manufactured by MH and MJ at Hendon). 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 ). 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. 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. The most common system with the .303 cartridge used coloured bullet tips or colour around the annulus of the primer cap. He was in a parachute regiment when Italy capitulated. The comparative isolation of its moorland situation ended too with the opening of a branch railway from the mainline at Ferryhill in 1876. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded .303 Ball cartridges, VIS Atelier de Chargement de Vincennes, FRANCE. 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. Jackson, in his Place Names of Durham, 1916, suggests a Scandinavian Spaan meaning shingle-hut and Anglo-Saxon combination involving mar Spennymoor being the moor called after the shingle-hut erected thereon. 1855 The Ordnance Office was dissolved in 1855. My husband worked in the mines with Bevin Boys. 1906 Police Station opens. referenced. Whitworth Park Golf Club (9 holes) opens. this was examining and weighing capsules to be used in Burma for killing mosquitoes and fleas. I worked at the Royal Ordnance factory (ROF) at Spennymoor. 1858 Page Bank Colliery disaster 10 miners killed. 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. This factory manufactured cartridges for use by the British Army in India as well as the Indian Army. 5. The arms factory was closed in 1987. This round had a muzzle velocity of 1830 feet per second and a chamber pressure of about 19 tons per square inch. In 1935 the .303 O Mark 1 Observing round was introduced for use in machine guns. DWM Deutsche Waffen Und Munitionsfabrik, Karlsruhe, GERMANY. I remember Lord Haw Haw on radio speaking from Germany calling. Cost 87,000. 1931 Pilgrim Trust founds the Settlement. Spennymoor Circus and Novely Hippodrome opened. 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]. Spennymoor United AFC founded. 2002 Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee, Parade of Golden Roses, Jubilee Park. Royal Small Arms Factory Enfield Factory No 2. 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. P or PC Peters Cartridge Co., Kings Mills, Ohio, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 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. I was chosen along with 2 other girls to visit Goosepool Aerodrome (now Durham/Tees Valley International Airport), where the Canadian. TW = Twin Cities Ordnance Plant - Minneapolis, Minnesota. 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. Dean & Chapter andMainsforth Collieries opened. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded .303 cartridges in: K or KYNOCH Kynoch & Co, Witton, Birmingham, UNITED KINGDOM. Cases were supplied by MJ, Ball Mk 7 (loaded into cases with BVI head stamp). I worked at the Royal Ordnance factory (ROF) at Spennymoor. 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. Originally colour markings arose from the need to make a quick visual check of the arrangements in a machine gun belt and they are now almost universally applied. 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. Temple, Collectors Cartridge Catalogue No 29 by Conjay Arms Company Ltd, Whitneys Heritage, A Study of Cartridges Manufactured by The Colonial Ammunition Company in New Zealand. 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. Since the introduction of the .303 cartridge in 1889 it has been manufactured in at least 20 countries and in nearly 200 military variants as well as in numerous experimental and sporting cartridge configurations. DA Dominion Arsenal, Montreal, CANADA. 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 BPD Bombrini, Parodi et Delfino, Rome ITALY. information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the As a result, many hundreds of immigrant workers came here from the Midlands and more rows of dark little houses were erected. C.E. Quite a few of these men must have been miners, as at that time coale pits were being worked at Whitworth, Byers Green and Fernhill. Royal Arsenal Factory No 1. ITALY used both bullet tip and annulus codes, Armour Piercing Incendiary (Phosphorus filled) Blue tip, Armour Piercing Incendiary (Thermite filled) Green tip, UNITED KINGDOM AND COMMONWEALTH COUNTRIES BEFORE c 1955,ie Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, and South Africa used bullet tip and annulus code from about 1918 onwards, Armour Piercing Green tip, Green annulus, Tracer Short Range White tip, Red annulus, Tracer Dark Ignition Grey tip, Red annulus. 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. 1970 Moor Grange sheltered accommodation completed. Low Spennymoor houses cleared. 3. 1966 Bus Station and Parkwood Precinct opened. ROF Blackburn. Mr Hosie who was chauffeur for ROF at the time was our driver. RH Raleigh Cycle Co, Nottingham, UNITED KINGDOM. There are entire streets without any closet accommodation whatever and in its stead open wooden boxes are placed opposite nearly every doorway for the reception of the excrement, ashes and other refuse; an arrangement which, besides being revolting to every sense of decency, is stated to be offensive in the extreme, especially in hot weather. 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. 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