Next we went with the WAAFs to see how they packed parachutes for the boys. Between 1988 and 1992 the Gordon Street factory used the monogram AFF. Town Hall, Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: KF or K Indian Government Ammunition Factory Kirkee (or Kirkee Arsenal), near Poona, INDIA. This mark of bullet remained the standard ball round for the remainder of the .303 cartridges service life. 1984 Middlestone Moor Community Centre built. 1939 Outbreak of World War II. Spennymoor was ringed with collieries, black furnaces and coke ovens and the new prosperity showed itself in the building of better houses and in the opening of Co-operative stores. referenced. An era of prosperity dawned in the 1860s and 1870s when the miners were earning 1 per day. 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. In 1918 this factory had the capacity to produce about 5.4 million rounds per month. 8). 2003 Spennymoor Cemetery Memorial Garden officially opened. I worked at the Royal Ordnance factory at Spennymoor. Known to have produced .303 cartridges 1941 1945 in: RL Royal Laboratory, Woolwich Arsenal, Kent, UNITED KINGDOM. 1803 the Royal Carriage Department was set up, 1804 Manufacture of small arms began at the Tower of London. The first blow was the closure in 1901 of the ironworks which had been rendered obsolete by the pace of change elsewhere. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded .303 Ball cartridges, VIS Atelier de Chargement de Vincennes, FRANCE. UT = Utah Ordnance Plant - Salt Lake City, Utah. Today, Merrington church is one of the most prominent local landmarks. This company was already in existence but unconnected with ammunition manufacture when the 1939 1945 war broke out. Neither Britons nor Romans cultivated the moor, but on the site of Binchester, a village five miles to the south-west, the Romans built a camp around which grew up the settlement of Vinovium. We had stirrup pumps to put out fires from Incendiary Bombs. This company is believed to have manufactured .303 Ball, Blackpowder Mk 2 cartridges from 1890. In 1930 the coke ovens which remained on the ironworks site were only working intermittently. This factory made and marked cases but filling was carried out at the Royal Ordnance Factory Swynnerton, Staffs. 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. ROF Queniborough; Filling Factory No. It was changed to a limited company in 1884 as G. Kynoch & Co Ltd and by then was manufacturing metallic ammunition. Do Hirtenberg Patronenfabrik factory at Dordrecht, NETHERLANDS. Single lineRailway Bridge built over High Street. ROF Brackla; Filling Factory No. 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. ROF Steeton; SAA Factory No. It may be of some interest to learn that during the First World War more than 7,000 million Mk 7 ball cartridges were produced by British factories alone. 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). With the creation of the Ministry of Munitions, it was a logical step for that Ministry to take over supervision of these factories and co-ordinate their production with that of the other National Factories then being established. They had a filling factory at Abbey Wood and later during the 1939-45 war a filling factory at Farnham. Incendiary B Mk 3, B Mk 4Z*, B Mk 6, B Mk 6Z. UT = Utah Ordnance Plant - Salt Lake City, Utah. They are known to have manufactured .303 cartridges in: GA Grenfell and Accles Ltd, Perry Barr, Birmingham, UNITED KINGDOM. SMI Societa Metallurgica Italiana, Campo Tizzoro, ITALY. These soft nosed and hollow pointed bullets were considered however to be in contravention of the St Petersburg Declaration and the Hague Convention, in 1903 they were withdrawn from active service and were afterwards to be used solely for target practice. TW = Twin Cities Ordnance Plant - Minneapolis, Minnesota. On nitro-cellulose loaded .303 Mk 7z Ball cartridges made by FNM of Moscavide, PORTUGAL. 1964 Black and decker open factory at Green Lane. 1890 Tudhoe Iron Works produced 50,000 tons of steel. I was chosen along with 2 other girls to visit Goosepool Aerodrome (now Durham/Tees Valley International Airport), where the Canadian airmen were stationed. It was originally built by the Normans and its splendid strategic position led to it being fortified in 1143 by the Scots intruder, William Cumyn. Download. FC Federal Cartridge Co, Anoka, Minn., UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. IS - Royal Ordnance Pension Scheme - 2022. 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. My Father worked at the factory. This web publication contains 152,494 pages of The monogram MF1 was used for a short time in 1940 when the Gordon Street Factory commenced production. 1921 Royal Ordnance took over the National Filling Factories. Cartridge cases were being produced by late 1940 but the ball bullets were still being imported into the factory in 1941. ROF Brackla; ROF 41 at Brackla and ROF 53 at Waterton, ROF Dunham on the Hill; Explosives storage depot. 1887 Renamed the Royal Ordnance Factories, control passed to the financial secretary's Civil Department. 1954 Middlestone Moor housing estate commenced. Set up as part of the 1939-45 war emergency expansion plans. Known to have manufactured nitro-cellulose loaded .303 cartridges in: Ball, L1A1 to British Government contract(1982-85). Hornady Hornady have manufactured their Custom brand of nitro-cellulose loaded .303 ammunition in the following sporting cartridges: 150 gr Spire Point Soft nosed sporting cartridge, 174 gr Round Soft nosed sporting cartridge. Known to have produced .303 cartridges 1914 1918 in: MAXIM Maxim Arms Co.,London, UNITED KINGDOM. The BBC is not responsible for the content of any external sites 1984 Royal Ordnance had 19 factories and 19000 employees when vested for privatization. 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. I was chosen along with 2 other girls to visit Goosepool Aerodrome (now Durham/Tees Valley International Airport), where the Canadian. We were introduced to several top men who told us our visit had been delayed due to various reasons, because of raids and moonlight. Gas Works opened for lighting in Spennymoor. The ROF Regiment were stationed in Spennymoor factory. 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. These factories were given the designation Royal Ordnance Factories (ROF). This is a list of Royal Ordnance Factories . PMP Pretoria Metal Pressings (Pty) Ltd., Pretoria, SOUTH AFRICA. After May 1918 the CAC monogram was used with two arrows . The production of these raw materials at Coulsons engineering works, Kenmirs furniture factory and newly-opened brickworks at Todhills were the main, if limited, sources of employment.Unemployment was over 33%. The following types of .303 cartridges are known to have been produced during the period 1897 to 1919: Armour Piercing Mks VII.P, VII.W and VII.W.Z, Cartridge Rifle Grenade, Ballistite H Mk 1. 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. 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. 1971 New sewage plant built at Tudhoe Mill. The works then possessed the largest mill in Europe, capable of rolling plates up to 13 feet in width. There was no production of .303 ammunition in 1961. 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. The one good road was maintained by tolls collected at turnpike gates. manufacturing in Britain. 1889 William Anderson was appointed Director General of Ordnance Factories, responsible for the ordnance factories, laboratory, carriage department and gun factory at Woolwich Arsenal, the small-arms factories at Enfield and Birmingham, and the gunpowder factory at Waltham Abbey. Initial Radway Green production used a single arrow as the headstamp code and this was replaced in 1942 by the RG code. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded .303 cartridges in: AE Arsenal do Ejercito, Lisbon, PORTUGAL. 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. MEXICO Fabrica National de Munitions, Mexico City, MEXICO. 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. Post-WWI Returned to lower production levels. Known to have manufactured .303 cartridges in: MH Small Arms Ammunition Factory No 3, Hendon, AUSTRALIA. 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 . BE or BE Royal Ordnance Factory, Blackpole, Worcester, UNITED KINGDOM. 1996 Tony Blair, M.P., opens the new Page Bankroad bridge. Royal Ordnance Factories were for explosives manufacture, filling of munitions and engineering. Known to have manufactured .303 cartridges in: Ball, Nitro-cellulose Mk 7Z ( Late Pattern ), Blank, Nitro-cellulose L Mk 5Z ( Canadian Pattern ). I remember Lord Haw Haw on radio speaking from Germany calling. 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. 2001 Memorial to two Hurricane pilots killed in aircrash at Tudhoe in 1942 unveiled at York Hill Cemetery. The bullet to this round was designed to break up with a puff of smoke on impact with a target or the ground . Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded 7.7 x 56R ball ammunition which is interchangeable with the .303 cartridges. Known to have produced .303 ball cartridges in 1924. The trade depression of the late 19th century, however, caused its closure in 1882. 1985 Largest European manufacturer of ammunition, 1986 Royal Ordnance was bought by British Aerospace (BAe). As a result, many hundreds of immigrant workers came here from the Midlands and more rows of dark little houses were erected. 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. Spennymoor, and the surrounding settlements, have a long and varied history. 1871 Tower Brewery built at Tudhoe Grange. 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 . This round, as originally adopted, consisted of a 215 grain, round nosed, cupro nickel jacketed bullet in front of 71.5 grains of RFG2 Blackpowder. Beretta Group owns now the Tikka arms brand. Used the monogram 1942 to 1943. 1904 Tudhoe Rugby Club defunct. Royal Ordnance Factory, Spennymoor - Hansard - UK Parliament Hansard record of the item : 'Royal Ordnance Factory, Spennymoor' on Thursday 31 May 1945. This is an insight into the Aycliffe Royal Ordnance Factory, ROF 59, (1941-1945) and the 'Aycliffe Angels'. ROF Aycliffe; Filling Factory No. 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. Mr Hosie who was chauffeur for ROF at the time was our driver. This factory manufactured cartridges for use by the British Army in India as well as the Indian Army. 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 . 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. EGYPT is known to have produced .303 ball ammunition at the Government Arsenal Shoubra, United Arab Republic and Factory No 10 at Alexandria, Egypt. Brighter Days 39 and 40. This producer is now known as Metallwerk Elisenhutte GmbH Nassau. .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 M Nobel Explosives Ltd., Manchester, UNITED KINGDOM. The latter resulted in colliery workers houses springing up on the main Durham road. BPD Bombrini, Parodi et Delfino, Rome ITALY. 1867 The Black Horse public house built in Tudhoe. 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. 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. CAC Colonial Ammunition Co., Auckland, NEW ZEALAND. 1987 Town wins National Allotment Society Waterlow Trophy. With few exceptions, the housing situation was little better than when Dodd had described the houses as more like piggeries. MF or AF Small Arms Ammunition Factory No 1, Footscray, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA. The next day the main bodies of the two armies met at Nevilles Cross, near Durham, and the Scots were slaughtered. These rounds were extensively developed over the years and saw several Mark numbers. 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. Nothing could well exceed the nuisance attendant on the disposal of excrement and refuse in Spennymoor. 01388 815276 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. My thanks to John Kindred for clarification on the monograms used on Australian small arms ammunition. ROF Blackburn. Dean & Chapter andMainsforth Collieries opened. Known to have manufactured .303 cartridges in: MG / MF2 Small Arms Ammunition Factory No 2, Gordon Street, Footscray, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA. V.E.Day. When we arrived at Goosepool Mr Hosie was not allowed to enter the airport as it was strictly guarded. It was really pitiful, these lads had had a terrible time. 1984 Royal Armament Research and Development Establishment's Waltham Abbey south site became part of Royal Ordnance. The three historic state-controlled munitions factories at Woolwich, Enfield, and Waltham Abbey were taken over as National Factories were controlled by the Army Board at the outbreak of the war, under the Master General of the Ordnance. Electric lighting for Spennymoor. 1942 1942 1943 1944 Tikkakoski Arsenal - Finland Tikkakoski was the first private arms manufacturer in Finland. ROF Aycliffe; ROF 59 (Filling Factory No. It is known to have manufactured .303 cartridges in: Cartridge Rifle Grenade, Cordite H Mk 3 and H Mk 5. V.J.Day. 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. 1716 Subsequently the Royal Brass Foundry was established for the manufacture of brass ordnance. Page Bank colliery opened. 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. The ROF Regiment were stationed in Spennymoor factory under the leadership of Captain Calderbank. I was given a badge for helping to raise money for the war effort. R..W Rudge Whitworth Ltd., Tyseley, UNITED KINGDOM. Early site history and production [ edit] First World War [ edit] Policy. We were shown how the airmen assembled our bullets and taken to try the Frainer Bomber (named the Lincoln Frainer). 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