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There was a glazeboard wad on top of the charge to protect the base of the bullet. Between 1988 and 1992 the Gordon Street factory used the monogram AFF. Brighter Days Town Hall, This web publication contains 147,919 pages of Known to have produced .303 ball cartridges c 1937, SFM Societe Francaise des Munitions, Issy les Moulineaux, FRANCE. 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. BE or BE Royal Ordnance Factory, Blackpole, Worcester, UNITED KINGDOM. My brother-in-law was taken prisoner in Italy. This mark of bullet remained the standard ball round for the remainder of the .303 cartridges service life. 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. AOC Bombrini, Parodi et Delfino, Rome, ITALY. 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. 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. 1988 Spennymoor Cricket Club Ground purchased. The one good road was maintained by tolls collected at turnpike gates. High Street, Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded .303 cartridges: Ball, Mk 7 for 1914 1917 military contracts, Ball, Mk 7Z ( American WW2 Contract Pattern ). Royal Arsenal Factory No 1. Used code U from 1939 1961 and SAM thereafter. Manufactured .303 cartridges with this headstamp January 1924 to February 1925. 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. Town wins Northumbria in Bloom (Town Section). In 1938 the .303 Mark VIIIZ round was approved to obtain greater effective range from the Vickers Medium Machine Gun. It began production of .303 ammunition in 1941 initially with the headstamp code of two arrows replacing these in 1942 with the code SR. 1918 World War l ended in victory for the Allies. It is impossible to walk between the rows of cottages without being convinced that the surface of the ground is to a large extent composed of the overflowing contents of these midden boxes. This factory was also set up as part of the 1939-45 war emergency expansion plans. 102.56 KB. ROF Steeton; SAA Factory No. 1940 1949. Known to have produced .303 cartridges 1914 1918 in: MAXIM Maxim Arms Co.,London, UNITED KINGDOM. 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. 1807 Small arms manufacture moved to the Royal Manufactory of Small Arms at Lewisham. I remember Lord Haw Haw on radio speaking from Germany calling. 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. Nitro-cellulose propellant however was extensively used during the first and second world wars. Into the 20th Century Known to have produced both ball and blank .303 cartridges. There is, however, space for expansion and land is available on the Green Lane Industrial Estate. This factory was set up as part of the 1939-1945 war emergency expansion plan. Post-WWI Returned to lower production levels. 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. Royal Ordnance Factory, Spennymoor, Durham, UK. 10. MF or AF Small Arms Ammunition Factory No 1, Footscray, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA. A nursery school was opened in the park to look after children while mothers did war work. 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. Known to have manufactured nitro-cellulose loaded .303 ball cartridges for export pre 1939. This factory was part of the 1939- 45 war emergency expansion plans being situated near Crewe and is still in operation. 2005 BAe Land Systems Munitions and Ordnance employs about 1650 people at sites including the former RO sites at Birtley, Bishopton, Bridgwater, Chorley, Glascoed, Radway Green and Shrivenham. V.E.Day. Beretta Group owns now the Tikka arms brand. 1858 Page Bank Colliery disaster 10 miners killed. The plaque was unveiled on the former Royal Ordnance Factory building, now an activity centre, by 100-year-old angel Muriel Scott. 2001 Memorial to two Hurricane pilots killed in aircrash at Tudhoe in 1942 unveiled at York Hill Cemetery. FN Fabrique National dArmes de Guerre, Herstal, BELGIUM. Should the reader be aware of any omissions in this manufacturers listing then the author would be very pleased to hear from them. Known to have manufactured nitro-cellulose loaded .303 cartridges in: Ball, L1A1 to British Government contract(1982-85). 1953 St Pauls Church damaged by fire. My Father worked at the factory. This factory was part of the 1939-45 war emergency expansion plan. 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. 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. The huge munitions factory employed some 17,000 . 1920 Durham County Water Board provides water supply. 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. A new 3-bedroom semi cost 3,375 to buy on private housing estate. During WW1 Greenwood & Batley are known to have produced in excess of 705 million .303 Mk 7 cartridges. This story has been placed in the following categories. M Nobel Explosives Ltd., Manchester, UNITED KINGDOM. Royal Ordnance Factories were for explosives manufacture, filling of munitions and engineering. 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. 1906 Police Station opens. Royal Powder Mill Factory No 31. In 1918 this factory was capable of producing at the rate of about 10 million rounds per month. Explosive bullets were not produced in the UK after about 1933 due to the relatively small amount of explosive that could be contained in the bullet limiting their effectiveness, their role being successfully fulfilled by the use of Mark 6 and 7 incendiary bullets which were also of a less complicated construction. They had a filling factory at Abbey Wood and later during the 1939-45 war a filling factory at Farnham. TW = Twin Cities Ordnance Plant - Minneapolis, Minnesota. 1942 1942 1943 1944 Tikkakoski Arsenal - Finland Tikkakoski was the first private arms manufacturer in Finland. Known to have produced 7.7 x 56R ball cartridges which are interchangeable with the .303 cartridge. Royal Ordnance, including the Royal Ordnance Factories, makers of guns, ammunition and explosives. Yokosuka Naval Arsenal, JAPAN. The arms factory was closed in 1987. 1934 to 1939 Many new Royal Ordnance Factories were built to enhance the capacity of the Royal Arsenal, Royal Gunpowder Factory and the Royal Small Arms Factory which, being close to London, were susceptible to being bombed[6]. ( A standing for Armscore ). The headstamp code G, denoting manufacturer, should not be confused with G as in GIV indicating a tracer cartridge. Its largest division was ammunition followed by tanks and fighting vehicles, which had factories at Leeds and Nottingham[8]. Download. 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). RH Raleigh Cycle Co, Nottingham, UNITED KINGDOM. In 1910 the 174 grain pointed Mark VII bullet was adopted and the muzzle velocity was increased to 2440 feet per second. County Durham, By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy I worked at the Royal Ordnance factory (ROF) at Spennymoor. I was chosen along with 2 other girls to visit Goosepool Aerodrome (now Durham/Tees Valley International Airport), where the Canadian airmen were stationed. 1890 Tudhoe Iron Works produced 50,000 tons of steel. 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. 1969 Courtaulds Ltd. open spinning factory at Green Lane. It became Kynoch Ltd in 1897. 1871 Tower Brewery built at Tudhoe Grange. This factory was part of the 1939-45 war emergency expansion plan. this was examining and weighing capsules to be used in Burma for killing mosquitoes and fleas. 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. When U used with a diamond this indicates manufacture in a subsidiary factory at Kimberley. 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. 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. In the event that you consider anything on this page to be in breach of the site's House Rules, please click here. They had a goat mascot named Monty who ate the vegetables which the lads were growing, "Dig For Victory". Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded .303 Ball cartridges, VIS Atelier de Chargement de Vincennes, FRANCE. 1868 Spennymoor Steeplechase Meeting at the Four Lane Ends attracted 8,000 spectators. VE Cartoucherie de Valence, FRANCE. Known to have manufactured nitro-cellulose loaded .303 Ball, Mk 7 cartridges. After May 1918 the CAC monogram was used with two arrows . 299.06 KB. DA Dominion Arsenal, Montreal, CANADA. bombs fall on Tudhoe. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in 1942 only. Production of ammunition ceased in 1944. After ROF I worked for C.I.E.M.E. This change was agreed in August 1915 and thus these sites became nominally part of the National Factory programme. Some of the largest horse-race meetings in the North took place on the moor, and miners and their families attended in all their holiday splendour. Lost in the Blackout. 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 ). The later Mark 6 and 7 incendiary rounds could also be used in this role if required. The ROF Regiment were stationed in Spennymoor factory under the leadership of Captain Calderbank. 22. When we arrived at Goosepool Mr Hosie was not allowed to enter the airport as it was strictly guarded. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: (The metal components for these rounds were manufactured by MH and MJ at Hendon). public. The Cleveland iron trade, which used the coal and coke produced at Spennymoor, was depressed. 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. 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. In 1923 only four houses were built and there was still massive overcrowding in back to back properties. Similar jacketed hollow point bullets were used in the Mark IV and V rounds. Cartridges known to have been manufactured in: MEN Maschinenfabrik Elisenhutte, Nassau, WEST GERMANY. U = Utah Ordnance Plant - Salt Lake City, Utah. 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. 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. ROF Blackpool; SAA Factory. 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. 1996 Tony Blair, M.P., opens the new Page Bankroad bridge. 1990 Town Council wins Waterlow Trophy for fourth year. 1964 Black and decker open factory at Green Lane. 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. 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]. 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. Spennymoor is a town in County Durham, England. This factory made and marked cases but filling was carried out at the Royal Ordnance Factory Swynnerton, Staffs. 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. On 2 January the majority were vested in the UK Government-owned company Royal Ordnance Plc together with 3 Agency-operated Factories, the Waltham Abbey south site and the Royal Small Arms Factory. Royal Ordnance Factory, Spennymoor - Hansard - UK Parliament Hansard record of the item : 'Royal Ordnance Factory, Spennymoor' on Thursday 31 May 1945. 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. Maintained by Sapere Software. Rough houses were built for the pit workers houses with two rooms and a loft, more like piggeries than human habitation according to Dodd. 1787 Purchase of the powdermill at Waltham Abbey which was named the Royal Gunpowder Factory. By Barry W. Gracia, An extensive website on the Vickers machine gun, Harrington Aviation Museum DropZone Newsletter, Identification Manuals Nos 1, 2, 3, and 4 on the .303 British Service Cartridge. The By 1860, the factory was producing more than 90,000 rifles, or 1,744 a week. 1934 Prince of Wales visits the Town for a second time. The Spennymoor ammunition was filled at the Royal Ordnance Factory, Aycliffe, Durham. 1803 the Royal Carriage Department was set up, 1804 Manufacture of small arms began at the Tower of London. The greatest project came with the development of the Tudhoe ironworks site 70 acres that was turned into the Bessemer Park Housing Estate. As a general rule the absence of a colour coding indicates a standard ball cartridge. Set up as part of the 1939-45 war emergency expansion plans. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded .303 Ball cartridges 1923. Grace's Guide To British Industrial History, https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/index.php?title=Royal_Ordnance&oldid=1277361, Creative Troubled Years 1971 New sewage plant built at Tudhoe Mill. 1906 Birmingham Small Arms Co took over the Royal Small Arms Factory at Sparkbrook[5]. Inside, the most interesting feature is the screen, a typical example of late-17th century work. Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Later, effective tracer and incendiary composition operations were also carried out at Witton. Dean & Chapter andMainsforth Collieries opened. 39 and 40. Even by 1938 the situation had improved little. Subsequently became part of BAE Systems Land and Armaments business. In 1918 this factory had the capacity to produce about 5.4 million rounds per month. Following experimentation to increase the effectiveness of the ball cartridge the British Government adopted a 215 grain cupro-nickle jacketed hollow pointed bullet in 1897 as the Cartridge S.A. Ball .303 inch Cordite Mark III. 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. 1928 Spennymoor Golf Club opened at North Close. 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. UT = Utah Ordnance Plant - Salt Lake City, Utah. The Captain without thinking shouted 'shoot the bugger' and this is what the lads did and were in serious trouble. 1869 Shaft sunk at Tudhoe Grange Colliery. Everyman Theatre opens. King Street Council School built. This cartridge is interchangeable with the .303 British cartridge. The name Binchester is the usual Saxon corruption or adaptation of the Roman site name. Used the monogram 1942 to 1945. 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. 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. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded .303 cartridges in: y Toyokawa Naval Arsenal, JAPAN. 2003 Spennymoor Cemetery Memorial Garden officially opened. We used to shelter under the stairs during air raids. Town wins award in Britain in Bloom Competition. 1916 Town Hall built at a cost of 18,000. 1942 Both pilots killed when two Hawker Hurricane aircraft collided and crashed at Tudhoe. FNT Fabrica Nacional de Espana, Palencia, SPAIN. 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. This company was already in existence but unconnected with ammunition manufacture when the 1939 1945 war broke out. Gateshead refugees arrived in Spennymoor. We were then introduced to a number of Canadian boys. SR = Royal Ordnance Factory - Spennymoor, United Kingdom. The monogram MF1 was used for a short time in 1940 when the Gordon Street Factory commenced production. 1887 Renamed the Royal Ordnance Factories, control passed to the financial secretary's Civil Department. Penny Rate Product 239. Manufactured .303 cartridges from 1915 1918 in: Incendiary Buckingham (VII.B), B Mk 1, B Mk 2Z, SAAF Small Arms Factory Footscray, AUSTRALIA. Ammunition was made at Woolwich long before the adoption of the .303 cartridge in 1889. The MG monogram was changed to MF in 1949 which was used until 1962. DAC Dominion Arsenal, Quebec, CANADA. Skip to main content Hansard UK Parliament Hansard This factory was set up as part of the 1939-45 war emergency expansion plan. Chamber pressure however was higher at 20 21 tons per square inch compared to the 19.5 tons per square inch of the Mark VII round. This became the Royal Small Arms Factory (Birmingham). 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. Three closed in 1924 and the strike saw another two fail. In 1930 the coke ovens which remained on the ironworks site were only working intermittently. 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 . 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. RA Raufoss Ammunisjonsfabrikker, Raufoss, NORWAY. Known to have produced .303 ball cartridges in 1924. Royal Small Arms Factory Factory No 2. 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. 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. Population 16,369. U or SAM South African Mint, Pretoria, SOUTH AFRICA. It is known to have produced .303 cartridges in: Ball, Cordite Mk 2, Mk 2 Special, Mk 6 and Mk 7. Nobel Industries in turn was to become part of the new giant Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd when it was formed in 1926. 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