New Pavilions constructed at Jubilee Park. R-P Remington Arms Co, Bridgeport, Conn., UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Lost in the Blackout. 1940 1949. U = Utah Ordnance Plant - Salt Lake City, Utah. 1930 New Tivoli cinema opened at a cost of 15,000. 1942 1942 1943 1944 Tikkakoski Arsenal - Finland Tikkakoski was the first private arms manufacturer in Finland. information and 237,145 images on early companies, their products and the 22. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: PPU or nny Prvi Partizan, Titovo Uzice, YUGOSLAVIA. 1944 Christmas Eve a stray German VI Flying Bomb exploded in Tudhoe Cricket Club field at 6 am D-Day, 6th June. This factory was also set up as part of the 1939-45 war emergency expansion plans. In 1930 the coke ovens which remained on the ironworks site were only working intermittently. During WW1 Eley produced in excess of 209 Million .303 Mk 7 cartridges. Ammunition was made at Woolwich long before the adoption of the .303 cartridge in 1889. UT = Utah Ordnance Plant - Salt Lake City, Utah. After May 1918 the CAC monogram was used with two arrows . Housing, too, has made great strides since the end of the War. Produced .303 Mk 7 ball ammunition in cases believed to be made by Eley. 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. The views expressed are theirs and unless specifically stated are not The headstamp code G, denoting manufacturer, should not be confused with G as in GIV indicating a tracer cartridge. This ammunition is known to have been commercially exported by the manufacturer post 1950 to Afghanistan and India. 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. manufacturing in Britain. FNT Fabrica Nacional de Espana, Palencia, SPAIN. In 1963 too there came the first private building developments to take place since back in the days of the 19th century colliery owners. POF Pakistan Ordnance Factory, Rawalpindi, PAKISTAN. A Pretoria West Metal Pressings Pty., Pretoria, SOUTH AFRICA. C.E. Royal Ordnance Factory, Spennymoor, Durham, UK. This producer is now known as Metallwerk Elisenhutte GmbH Nassau. 1985 There were 12 Royal Ordnance Factories still in operation. In 1918 this factory was capable of producing at the rate of about 10 million rounds per month. The arms factory was closed in 1987. Gas Works opened for lighting in Spennymoor. Mr Hosie who was chauffeur for ROF at the time was our driver. 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. Archive List > United Kingdom > Wearside and County Durham, Submitted by Christine Rome at Spennymoor Library on behalf of Elizabeth Hodgson (ne Monaghan). Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: F Small Arms Ammunition Factory, Footscray, AUSTRALIA. Later, effective tracer and incendiary composition operations were also carried out at Witton. 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. 1972 Cambridge Theatre/Cinema destroyed by fire. This factory was set up as part of the 1939-1945 war emergency expansion plan. 10. people who designed and built them. ROF Aycliffe; Filling Factory No. Next we went with the WAAFs to see how they packed parachutes for the boys. Known to have manufactured .303 cartridges in: MG / MF2 Small Arms Ammunition Factory No 2, Gordon Street, Footscray, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA. Its head office is at Glascoed. Spennymoor is known to have produced .303 cartridges such as Ball Mk 7 and 8Z, Blank L Mk 5, Incendiary B Mk 6, B Mk 6Z, B . 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. 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. MJ Small Arms Ammunition Factory No 4, Hendon, AUSTRALIA. 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. In addition there was a filling area not far away in the vicinity of Abbey Wood. 1858 Page Bank Colliery disaster 10 miners killed. EGYPT is known to have produced .303 ball ammunition at the Government Arsenal Shoubra, United Arab Republic and Factory No 10 at Alexandria, Egypt. 1984 Royal Ordnance had 19 factories and 19000 employees when vested for privatization. Known to have produced both ball and blank .303 cartridges. The name Binchester is the usual Saxon corruption or adaptation of the Roman site name. HXP Greek Powder and Cartridge Co, Athens, GREECE. Whitworth Hall severely damaged by fire. D Dominion Cartridge Co., Brownsberg, Quebec, CANADA. This Military Arsenal became Nederland Wapen & Munitiefabrikde Kruithoorn NV,s Hertogenbosch and later became Eurometaal. 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. In 1926 when Nobel Industries became part of the new Imperial Chemical Industries, the old Kynoch factory at Witton was retained as the ammunition centre as part of the Metal Group within ICI. In addition to these plants the original cap production was maintained at Witton. Her advance guards clashed with some of Douglas men near Ferryhill and chased them back to the bridge at Croxdale (Sunderland Bridge). Skip to main content Hansard UK Parliament Hansard Cartridge cases were being produced by late 1940 but the ball bullets were still being imported into the factory in 1941. Three closed in 1924 and the strike saw another two fail. 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. 1763 The Greenwich magazine was moved to Purfleet. This of course was not the total number of .303 rifles produced in the UK during WW2, as the SMLE Rifle No 1 was still being manufactured, BSA alone producing nearly a quarter of a million No 1 Mk III and III* rifles. Johnson, who made a fortune out of it. Incendiary B Mk 3, B Mk 4Z*, B Mk 6, B Mk 6Z. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: Blank, Nitro-cellulose L Canadian Mk 1 (1955 & 1956). Known to have produced .303 ball cartridges c 1934. This company is believed to have manufactured .303 Ball, Blackpowder Mk 2 cartridges from 1890. The town of Spennymoor, and the villages of Byers Green, Kirk Merrington and Tudhoe, are in the North East of England, situated on high land above the south side of the Wear Valley between the City of Durham and Bishop Auckland. Types of Royal Ordnance Factories (ROFs) 1. 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. Mr. Leslie. Wolsey adopted by people of Spennymoor. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose filled .303 cartridges in: 174 gr Full jacket boat tail bulleted ammunition, 150 and 174 gr jacketed soft point sporting ammunition. c 1948. RNRA Rhodesia National Rifle Association. 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. RA Raufoss Ammunisjonsfabrikker, Raufoss, NORWAY. Modern Spennymoor was built on mining and has its origins with the sinking of the Wittered pit in 1839. 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. The Captain without thinking shouted 'shoot the bugger' and this is what the lads did and were in serious trouble. 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. It was selected to produce small arms ammunition as part of the 1939-1945 war emergency expansion plans. 1984 Royal Armament Research and Development Establishment's Waltham Abbey south site became part of Royal Ordnance. 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. The USA had also produced the .303 Pattern 1914, also known as the Rifle No 3 Mk 1 or 1*, for the British Government during the First World War. 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. Identification Manuals Nos 1, 2, 3, and 4 on the .303 British Service Cartridge by B.A. This page has been archived and is no longer updated. VPT Valtion Patruunatehdas, Lapua, FINLAND. The later Mark 6 and 7 incendiary rounds could also be used in this role if required. These squalid conditions were paralleled by the ever-uncertain economic conditions in industry. It initially had a small boxer type primer and was officially designated Cartridge, S.A., Ball, Magazine Rifle, Mark 1.C. 1985 Victoria Jubilee Park purchased by the Town Council. Tudhoe football field created. A new 3-bedroom semi cost 3,375 to buy on private housing estate. Known to have produced .303 ball cartridges. 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. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in 1942 only. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: NORMA or norma Norma Projectilfabrik, Amotfors, SWEDEN. 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. In 1874 the then Local Government Board had reported: 2003 Spennymoor Cemetery Memorial Garden officially opened. 1909 Pavilion Roller Skating Rink (The Rink) built in Clarence Street. Providing . This company was first formed in 1862 and manufactured percussion caps. 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. 1988 Spennymoor Cricket Club Ground purchased. 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. In 1938 the .303 Mark VIIIZ round was approved to obtain greater effective range from the Vickers Medium Machine Gun. My brother-in-law was taken prisoner in Italy. El Alamein. The ROF Regiment were stationed in Spennymoor factory. 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 . The run-down of the mining industry, however, was nevertheless a serious blow. 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. 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. Even before the big coal strike of 1926 the collieries had begun to close. The only portion of the common that was left was a small plot reserved for the use of a spring of water. 1931 Road Tolls ceased at Page Bank Bridge. Population 16,369. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded .303 cartridges in: y Toyokawa Naval Arsenal, JAPAN. On explosive anti Zeplin cartridges. http://www.durhamatwar.org.uk/material/569/, 1837 Spennymoors firstRailway Station built, 1839 Shaft sunk at Whitworth Park Colliery, 1841- Spennymoor National School (Dysons) opened. 1986 Tudhoe Community Centre built. The one good road was maintained by tolls collected at turnpike gates. Penny Rate Product 239. The MG monogram was changed to MF in 1949 which was used until 1962. U = Utah Ordnance Plant - Salt Lake City, Utah. 1921 Royal Ordnance took over the National Filling Factories. 1895 First meeting of Urban District Council. Coloured bands on the cartridge case are not common but the following have been used: One inch blue band Reduced charge ball to simulate stoppages in Vickers aircraft guns. We were shown how the airmen assembled our bullets and taken to try the Frainer Bomber (named the Lincoln Frainer). 1931 Pilgrim Trust founds the Settlement. 2001 Memorial to two Hurricane pilots killed in aircrash at Tudhoe in 1942 unveiled at York Hill Cemetery. This factory manufactured cartridges for use by the British Army in India as well as the Indian Army. 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. It became G. Kynoch & Co Ltd in 1884 and by then was manufacturing metallic ammunition. 1992 Jubilee Park wins Best Park in Town Award in Northumbria in Bloom Competition. TW = Twin Cities Ordnance Plant - Minneapolis, Minnesota. 1940 German H.E. There were, of course, early problems, but the new industries became established and, in most cases, began to expand. This was very interesting there of course was a special way of doing this that it opened properly when required. I worked at the Royal Ordnance factory (ROF) at Spennymoor. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: KF or K Indian Government Ammunition Factory Kirkee (or Kirkee Arsenal), near Poona, INDIA. 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. CAC Colonial Ammunition Co., Auckland, NEW ZEALAND. 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. Population 19,073. Ammunition production ceased completely at Woolwich in 1957, the last known production of .303 ammunition there being Mk 7 Ball in 1957. Used the monogram 1942 to 1945. Royal Ordnance Factory. 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. SMI Societa Metallurgica Italiana, Campo Tizzoro, ITALY. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: Armour Piercing W Mk 1 and W Mk 1 Special. We were also allowed inside a Halifax Bomber and according to a map we flew all over Darlington and Durham. .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 Spennymoor Circus and Novely Hippodrome opened. 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. Manufactured .303 cartridges from 1915 1918 in: Incendiary Buckingham (VII.B), B Mk 1, B Mk 2Z, SAAF Small Arms Factory Footscray, AUSTRALIA. 1941 Royal Ordnance Factory opens. 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. The monogram MF1 was used for a short time in 1940 when the Gordon Street Factory commenced production. ROF Queniborough; Filling Factory No. As a result, many hundreds of immigrant workers came here from the Midlands and more rows of dark little houses were erected. The greatest project came with the development of the Tudhoe ironworks site 70 acres that was turned into the Bessemer Park Housing Estate. The trade depression of the late 19th century, however, caused its closure in 1882. 1949 Bungalows built at Middlestone Moor. Although these were the only houses built before the war, they did provide some hope and allowed the clearance of some of the worst of the squalid areas. Download. 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. Yokosuka Naval Arsenal, JAPAN. Other methods include colouring of part or the whole of the cartridge case. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded .303 cartridges in: 180 & 215 gr jacketed soft point sporting ammunition, RR or RRCO Ross Rifle Co, Montreal, CANADA. 8; . Known to have produced .303 ball cartridges. 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. Steve 11-03-2014, 06:29 PM #3 lithoman Download. Used on military .303 (7.7 x 56R) cartridges supplied to Egypt in the period 1948 1954. 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. SIP - Royal Ordnance Pension Scheme - 2022. those of the BBC. 21. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy 1867 The Black Horse public house built in Tudhoe. 1759 Government purchase of the privately-owned gunpowder mill at Faversham and the establishment there of the Royal Powder Mill. Spennymoor, United Kingdom (1913-1945). In WWI the Ministry of Munitions took over responsibility for manufacture of explosives (see H. M. Explosive Factories) and for filling of munitions (see National Filling Factories and National Projectile Factories, etc). 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. The land on which Spennymoor now stands was once a vast expanse of moorland covered with thorn and whin bushes (Spenny Moor). 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. During WW1 Greenwood & Batley are known to have produced in excess of 705 million .303 Mk 7 cartridges. 1989 Byers Green Village Hall extended and refurbished. 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. 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. 1807 Small arms manufacture moved to the Royal Manufactory of Small Arms at Lewisham. 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. ROF Blackpool; SAA Factory. . MF or AF Small Arms Ammunition Factory No 1, Footscray, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA. 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]. This factory was part of the 1939- 45 war emergency expansion plans being situated near Crewe and is still in operation. 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. Spennymoor United AFC founded. Known to have manufactured nitro-cellulose loaded .303 ball cartridges for export pre 1939. 1995 H.M. Queen Elizabeth II visited the Thorn Lighting factory at Spennymoor. Everyman Theatre opens. Known to have produced .303 ball cartridges. E or EB Eley Brothers, Edmonton, London, UNITED KINGDOM. Used code U from 1939 1961 and SAM thereafter. This change was agreed in August 1915 and thus these sites became nominally part of the National Factory programme. .303 cartridges known to have been produced with the Blackpole headstamped cases from 1941 to 1945 are: Cartridge Rifle Grenade, Ballistite H Mk 1Z. This web publication contains 152,494 pages of Nevertheless, the whole of this countryside was made desolate by Williams soldiers, and for many years it was the haunt of outlaws and wild animals. 1987 Middlestone Moor Community Centre extended. Custom was when the boys used these parachutes successfully it was usual for them to send a letter of thanks and a present to whoever had packed the parachute as the girls would have their name and address inside the package. On the one hand it brought housing efforts almost to a standstill, but on the industry front it saw the resurgence of Spennymoor as a major centre. 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. This company manufactured ammunition from an early stage, finally ceasing production in the late 1950s. 1869 Shaft sunk at Tudhoe Grange Colliery. 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 ). Known to have produced .303 ball cartridges c 1937, SFM Societe Francaise des Munitions, Issy les Moulineaux, FRANCE. Royal Arsenal Factory No 1. 39 and 40. By 1860, the factory was producing more than 90,000 rifles, or 1,744 a week. 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