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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. This company manufactured ammunition from an early stage, finally ceasing production in the late 1950s. 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. The arms factory was closed in 1987. 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. Quarter inch green band Canadian made tracer, Wide green band at equator of case Canadian made Match Ball (1922), Six purple bands around equator of case Canadian Match Ball (1926), Ball round with case blackened quarter inch back from the mouth Short Range Practice Mk 1 (1895 1897), or Mk 2 (1899 1912), Case completely blackened with brass dummy bullet Blank with mock bullet Mk 6, Blank case all black Rifle grenade blank Mk 2, Blank, front half black Rifle Grenade, Ballistite, Blank, front and rear thirds black Rifle grenade Mk 4 for Grenade No 85, Blank, rear half black Rifle grenade blank Mk 7z or Smoke discharger Mk 1T, Ball, reddened case Proof round Mks 1 to 3. .303 cartridges known to have been produced with the Blackpole headstamped cases from 1941 to 1945 are: Cartridge Rifle Grenade, Ballistite H Mk 1Z. UT = Utah Ordnance Plant - Salt Lake City, Utah. 1994 Town wins National Allotment Society Waterlow Trophy. Known to have produced .303 ball cartridges for export. This company was formed in 1890 at Kings Norton, it owned its own rolling mills and had a loading plant at Abbey wood in Kent. Royal Ordnance Factory. FNT Fabrica Nacional de Espana, Palencia, SPAIN. Tudhoe and Spennymoor Local History Society founded. 1942 Both pilots killed when two Hawker Hurricane aircraft collided and crashed at Tudhoe. 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. They had a filling factory at Abbey Wood and later during the 1939-45 war a filling factory at Farnham. In 1935 the .303 O Mark 1 Observing round was introduced for use in machine guns. 8; . BPD Bombrini, Parodi et Delfino, Rome ITALY. The one good road was maintained by tolls collected at turnpike gates. Prior to the formation of Kynoch Ltd (see later entry) it was known to have produced .303 cartridges in: GEVELOT Gevelot & Gaupillat Freres, Paris, FRANCE. Tracer Mk VII.G, G Mk 1, G Mk 2, G Mk 2Z, G Mk 3, Tracer G Mk 3Z, G Mk 4, G Mk 5, G Mk 6, G Mk 6Z, G Mk 7, G Mk 8 and G Mk 8Z, 180 gr Jacketed soft point sporting ammunition, Streamlined Pattern 1936-37 Match Cartridge, Bulleted blanks for Bren, Lewis and Vickers, Experimental armour piercing incendiary (1956). 1803 the Royal Carriage Department was set up, 1804 Manufacture of small arms began at the Tower of London. The small number of factories involved in nuclear weapons production, ROF Burghfield and ROF Cardiff, did not pass over to Royal Ordnance upon privatisation but were transferred to the control of AWRE. manufacturing in Britain. KN Kings Norton Metal Co., Birmingham, UNITED KINGDOM. Byers Green and Kirk Merrington redeveloped. Identification Manuals Nos 1, 2, 3, and 4 on the .303 British Service Cartridge by B.A. ROF Featherstone; Filling Factory No. Mr. Leslie. During WW1 Eley produced in excess of 209 Million .303 Mk 7 cartridges. 1940 German H.E. These rounds were extensively developed over the years and saw several Mark numbers. A fourth royal factory, the Royal Aircraft Factory at Farnborough was also taken over by the Ministry in 1916. Town Hall, 1898 North Eastern Hotel destroyed by fire. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: Gallery Practice Mk 1 ( Black powder Canada ), Gallery Practice Mk 1 ( Smokeless Canada ). 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. information and 237,145 images on early companies, their products and the Known to have manufactured 7.7 x 56R bulleted blanks, which are interchangeable with the .303 cartridge. VPT Valtion Patruunatehdas, Lapua, FINLAND. Band Stand refurbished to its former state. Factory in operation 1828 1919. Population 19,073. Archive List > United Kingdom > Wearside and County Durham, Submitted by Christine Rome at Spennymoor Library on behalf of Elizabeth Hodgson (ne Monaghan). A further reorganisation and expansion followed in 1889 when George Kynoch was ousted from the management and this then culminated in a further change of title to Kynoch Ltd in 1897. 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. 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. This factory was set up as part of the 1939-45 war emergency plans and produced its first complete .303 rounds in October 1940. 1916 Town Hall built at a cost of 18,000. Known to have produced .303 cartridges 1941 1945 in: RL Royal Laboratory, Woolwich Arsenal, Kent, UNITED KINGDOM. King Street Council School built. Initial Radway Green production used a single arrow as the headstamp code and this was replaced in 1942 by the RG code. Email: info@spennymoor-tc.gov.uk. Call Us: 01388 815276 1972 Cambridge Theatre/Cinema destroyed by fire. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: G..F3 or C..F3 Government Cartridge Factory No 3, Blackpole, Worcestershire, UNITED KINGDOM. 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. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: Ball, Nitro-cellulose Mk 8Z ( Canadian Pattern ), Cartridge Rifle Grenade, Ballistite H Mk 1Z ( Canadian Pattern ), Tracer G Mk 2Z, G Mk 4Z, G Mk 6Z ( Canadian Pattern ). 20. Spennymoor, and the surrounding settlements, have a long and varied history. 1988 Spennymoor Cricket Club Ground purchased. The new St. Charles School opened. The Arsenal dates from 1670 and has manufactured many different items of warlike stores for the armed forces. El Alamein. A Pretoria West Metal Pressings Pty., Pretoria, SOUTH AFRICA. The run-down of the mining industry, however, was nevertheless a serious blow. I worked at the Royal Ordnance factory (ROF) at Spennymoor. 2003 Spennymoor Cemetery Memorial Garden officially opened. 01388 815276 Download. The later Mark 6 and 7 incendiary rounds could also be used in this role if required. CAC Colonial Ammunition Co., Auckland, NEW ZEALAND. Incendiary bombs burn down Tudhoe Colliery Co-op. It became G. Kynoch & Co Ltd in 1884 and by then was manufacturing metallic ammunition. 1913 Queen Mary visits the town. U = Utah Ordnance Plant - Salt Lake City, Utah. Find out how you can use this. 1759 Government purchase of the privately-owned gunpowder mill at Faversham and the establishment there of the Royal Powder Mill. T = Tikkakoski Arsenal - Finland. This became the Royal Small Arms Factory (Birmingham). On top of these economic misfortunes came the terrible explosion at Tudhoe Colliery in 1882 when 37 lives were lost. Powder was stored at Greenwich from an early date. We sometimes danced and had concerts given by our work mates. The works then possessed the largest mill in Europe, capable of rolling plates up to 13 feet in width. British military contracts 1914 1917, Ball, Mk 7Z (Canadian Pattern). Production gap from Jan 1921 to March 1921 after the factory was leased to the Government Known to have produced during 1920-21 the .303 cartridges in: CP Crompton Parkinson Ltd, Guiseley, Yorkshire, UNITED KINGDOM, although filling took place at Doncaster (see below). 1855 The Ordnance Office was dissolved in 1855. The Spennymoor ammunition was then filled at ROF Aycliffe. The next day the main bodies of the two armies met at Nevilles Cross, near Durham, and the Scots were slaughtered. Used the monogram 1942 to 1943. Known to have produced 7.7 x 56R ball cartridges, which are interchangeable with the .303 cartridge post 1961. 1936 Parishes of Byers green, Middlestone Moor, Kirk Merrington and part of Hett added to the town. 1869 Shaft sunk at Tudhoe Grange Colliery. 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. AOC Bombrini, Parodi et Delfino, Rome, ITALY. Spennymoor, United Kingdom (1913-1945). 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. We were then taken to the canteen for lunch, which consisted of battered spam and chips. ROF Brackla; Filling Factory No. The ROF Regiment were stationed in Spennymoor factory. Royal Ordnance Factory. ROF Steeton; SAA Factory No. 581.38 KB. 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). 1818 The work of the Lewisham establishment was transferred to Enfield. 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. It began production of .303 ammunition in 1941 initially with the headstamp code of two arrows replacing these in 1942 with the code SR. 1985 Largest European manufacturer of ammunition, 1986 Royal Ordnance was bought by British Aerospace (BAe). High Street, D, DF, N or S Indian Government Ammunition Factory, Dum Dum, Calcutta, INDIA. 1877 New iron Railway Bridge replaced the old wooden Bridge over the High Street. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded .303 cartridges in: y Toyokawa Naval Arsenal, JAPAN. 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. When U used with a diamond this indicates manufacture in a subsidiary factory at Kimberley. Known to have produced .303 cartridges up to 1919 in: L There is some confusion over this headstamp code as both Lorenz Ammunition and Ordnance Co, Millwall, London, UNITED KINGDOM and Ludlow and Co, Wolverhampton, Staffs, UNITED KINGDOM are believed to have used a L as their code and both manufactured .303 cartridges between 1887 and 1890. Used code U from 1939 1961 and SAM thereafter. The Gordon Street Factory used the monogram MF2 for a short time during 1940. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: MS Explosives Factory, Salisbury, AUSTRALIA. In 1930 the coke ovens which remained on the ironworks site were only working intermittently. Set up as part of the 1939-45 war emergency expansion plans. 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. A National School was built and opened in 1841; St.Pauls Church was built at Spennymoor in 1858 and all through these formative years the Non-conformist churches combined welfare work with prayer. Should the reader be aware of any omissions in this manufacturers listing then the author would be very pleased to hear from them. It became Kynoch Ltd in 1897. Next we went with the WAAFs to see how they packed parachutes for the boys. ROF Aycliffe; Filling Factory No. The BBC is not responsible for the content of any external sites Aycliffe filled the cases which we produced and this was very dangerous work. 1887 Renamed the Royal Ordnance Factories, control passed to the financial secretary's Civil Department. An era of prosperity dawned in the 1860s and 1870s when the miners were earning 1 per day. 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. Royal Powder Mill Factory No 31. A nursery school was opened in the park to look after children while mothers did war work. .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 factory was part of the 1939-45 war emergency expansion plan. 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. 1909 Pavilion Roller Skating Rink (The Rink) built in Clarence Street. 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. SMI Societa Metallurgica Italiana, Campo Tizzoro, ITALY. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: Ball, Mks 7 and 8Z. Cases were made in Birmingham then assembled and loaded at the Abbey Wood Factory, next to Woolwich Arsenal. 1906 Birmingham Small Arms Co took over the Royal Small Arms Factory at Sparkbrook[5]. The following .303 cartridges are known to have been produced by Kynoch: Armour Piercing Mks VII.S, VII.P, VII.W, W Mk 1 and W Mk 1Z, Ball, Nitro-cellulose Mk 8z with Aluminium Case, Drill, D Mk 6, D Mk 8, D Mk 9 and D Mk 10. 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. This factory was part of the 1939-45 war emergency expansion plan. Incendiary B Mk 3, B Mk 4Z*, B Mk 6, B Mk 6Z. 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. With few exceptions, the housing situation was little better than when Dodd had described the houses as more like piggeries. Butchers Race, one of the Five Lanes which meet at Tudhoe Crossroads, was so named after this foray. This factory is known to have produced .303 cartridges in: PS or S Pirotechnico Militar de Seville, SPAIN. The last tracer round introduced into British service was the G Mark 8 round approved in 1945, the last armour piercing round was the W Mark 1Z introduced in 1945 and the last incendiary round was the B Mark 7 introduced in 1942. Believed to have manufactured .303 ammunition as early as 1898 until 1918. The headstamp code G, denoting manufacturer, should not be confused with G as in GIV indicating a tracer cartridge. Gateshead refugees arrived in Spennymoor. The first blow was the closure in 1901 of the ironworks which had been rendered obsolete by the pace of change elsewhere. We had workers playtime during our half hour break. The Captain without thinking shouted 'shoot the bugger' and this is what the lads did and were in serious trouble. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: Armour Piercing W Mk 1 and W Mk 1 Special. They are known to have manufactured .303 cartridges in: GA Grenfell and Accles Ltd, Perry Barr, Birmingham, UNITED KINGDOM. Brighter Days 21. WRA = Winchester Repeating Arms - New Haven, Connecticut. 1891 Whitworth Hall restored after fire of 1877. ROF Aycliffe; ROF 59 (Filling Factory No. My sister lived in Billingham which was badly bombed, the sky was full of barrage balloons to protect the ICI factory. In 1874 the then Local Government Board had reported: Royal Navy Destroyer H.M.S. Tracer, armour piercing and incendiary cartridges were adopted by the British Government during 1915, explosive bullets having been approved for service in 1916. This web publication contains 152,494 pages of It was changed to a limited company in 1884 as G. Kynoch & Co Ltd and by then was manufacturing metallic ammunition. A strike, which lasted 13 weeks, paralysed the area in 1892, although out of the enforced idleness came foundations of new growth, for the machinery at the Tudhoe Iron works was then renovated and a new mill laid down. SR = Royal Ordnance Factory - Spennymoor, United Kingdom. Known to have manufactured .303 cartridges in: US United States Cartridge Co, Lowell, Mass., UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. In addition to these plants the original cap production was maintained at Witton. TW = Twin Cities Ordnance Plant - Minneapolis, Minnesota. Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and Although the United States of America did not officially adopt a .303 rifle, it did produce, under the Lend Lease scheme of World War 2, nearly a third of the wartime production of No 4 rifles used by British troops. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded 7.7 x 56R ball ammunition which is interchangeable with the .303 cartridges. Nitro-cellulose filled .303 American WW1 Contract Pattern cartridges were produced during the period 1914 1917 as. 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. The Dene is landscaped. 1969 Courtaulds Ltd. open spinning factory at Green Lane. Royal Powder Mill Factory No 31. Dedication of Venerable Bede Mission Church. 1996 Tony Blair, M.P., opens the new Page Bankroad bridge. Copyright of content contributed to this Archive rests with the author. By 1860, the factory was producing more than 90,000 rifles, or 1,744 a week. As a result, many hundreds of immigrant workers came here from the Midlands and more rows of dark little houses were erected. 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. Modern Spennymoor was built on mining and has its origins with the sinking of the Wittered pit in 1839. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Town wins Northumbria in Bloom (Town Section). Population declines to 15,440.First Council houses erected on racecourse site. info@spennymoor-tc.gov.uk Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded .303 cartridges in: AE Arsenal do Ejercito, Lisbon, PORTUGAL. 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. The bullet to this round was designed to break up with a puff of smoke on impact with a target or the ground . A new 3-bedroom semi cost 3,375 to buy on private housing estate. Royal Arsenal Factory No 1. 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. 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. Royal Ordnance Factory, Spennymoor - Hansard - UK Parliament Hansard record of the item : 'Royal Ordnance Factory, Spennymoor' on Thursday 31 May 1945. In 1918 this factory was capable of producing at the rate of about 10 million rounds per month. Royal Ordnance Factories were for explosives manufacture, filling of munitions and engineering. Cartridges known to have been manufactured in: MEN Maschinenfabrik Elisenhutte, Nassau, WEST GERMANY. Royal Ordnance Factory, Spennymoor, Durham, UK. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: Blank, Nitro-cellulose L Canadian Mk 1 (1955 & 1956). This round had a muzzle velocity of 1830 feet per second and a chamber pressure of about 19 tons per square inch. During the battle, the prior from Durham and his monks knelt on a little hillock in the Shaw Wood and prayed for an English victory while holding aloft, impaled on a spear, the Holy Corporax Cloth from the Cathedral. 1897 Kenmirs furniture factory opens in Silver Street. This factory manufactured cartridges for use by the British Army in India as well as the Indian Army. Known to have produced both ball and blank .303 cartridges. Policy. 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. To see the Known to have manufactured nitro-cellulose loaded .303 ball cartridges for export pre 1939. It began production of .303 Ammunition in 1941 initially with the headstamp code of two arrows replacing these in 1942 with the code SR. MKEMakina ve Kimya Endustrisi, Kuruma, TURKEY. Amongst the many hundreds of guns produced during his administration, which were at least 50% more powerful than the guns they superseded, not a single failure or accident of any kind occurred. Cases were supplied by MJ, Ball Mk 7 (loaded into cases with BVI head stamp). 1855 Foundation stone laid at St Pauls Church. Nitro-cellulose was first used as a propellant in the .303 cartridge during 1894 although it was not officially approved for service until 1916. 5. Martha Liddle, J.P., was the first person from Spennymoor to be awarded the M.B.E. UT = Utah Ordnance Plant - Salt Lake City, Utah. I was chosen along with 2 other girls to visit Goosepool Aerodrome (now Durham/Tees Valley International Airport), where the Canadian. 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. DL16 6DG. This is a list of Royal Ordnance Factories . 1942 1942 1943 1944 Tikkakoski Arsenal - Finland Tikkakoski was the first private arms manufacturer in Finland. This producer is now known as Metallwerk Elisenhutte GmbH Nassau. 8 ROF Beech Hill, Wigan ROF Birtley. In the event that you consider anything on this page to be in breach of the site's House Rules, please click here. Colour coding appears in several forms on small arms ammunition. 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. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: Tracer G Mk 2 (Australian Pattern) (projectiles were filled by MS at Salisbury). The first coal from Merrington Colliery was brought up in 1841; a pit with a chequered career which only prospered under the partnership of L.M Reay and R.S. It initially had a small boxer type primer and was officially designated Cartridge, S.A., Ball, Magazine Rifle, Mark 1.C. 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*. Known to have produced .303 ball cartridges. Smart and Brown opens on Ordnance Factory site. 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