Royal Arsenal Factory No 1. 1930 New Tivoli cinema opened at a cost of 15,000. ROF Aycliffe; Filling Factory No. When we arrived at Goosepool Mr Hosie was not allowed to enter the airport as it was strictly guarded. 1984 Royal Ordnance had 19 factories and 19000 employees when vested for privatization. FN Fabrique National dArmes de Guerre, Herstal, BELGIUM. Spennymoor, and the surrounding settlements, have a long and varied history. 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. SR = Royal Ordnance Factory - Spennymoor, United Kingdom. The Royal Small Arms Factory site at Enfield was purchased in 1811 and operations commenced in 1816; the work of the Lewisham establishment was transferred there in 1818. . 1962 Pavilions added to Merrington Lane playing fields. 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. 10. Incendiary Buckingham (VII.B), B Mk 1, B Mk 2Z, B Mk 4,B Mk 4. Spennymoor Health Centre opened. 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. 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the many hundreds of guns produced during his administration, which were at least 50% more powerful than the guns they superseded, not a single failure or accident of any kind occurred. The trade depression of the late 19th century, however, caused its closure in 1882. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: Armour Piercing W Mk 1 and W Mk 1 Special. 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. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded .303 Ball cartridges 1923. We were also allowed inside a Halifax Bomber and according to a map we flew all over Darlington and Durham. There has been a film made about these men "The guinea pigs". 1984 Royal Armament Research and Development Establishment's Waltham Abbey south site became part of Royal Ordnance. 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. This factory was part of the 1939-45 war emergency expansion plan. The most common system with the .303 cartridge used coloured bullet tips or colour around the annulus of the primer cap. We had evacuees in Spennymoor, these were from Gateshead and people were given 8/- a week to keep them in food, which today is 40p! 1855 The Ordnance Office was dissolved in 1855. This round had a muzzle velocity of 1830 feet per second and a chamber pressure of about 19 tons per square inch. 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. There was no production of .303 ammunition in 1961. Spennymoor, 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. 1811 The Royal Small Arms Factory site at Enfield was purchased. The Captain without thinking shouted 'shoot the bugger' and this is what the lads did and were in serious trouble. Royal Small Arms Factory Factory No 2. This company was already in existence but unconnected with ammunition manufacture when the 1939 1945 war broke out. The headstamp code G, denoting manufacturer, should not be confused with G as in GIV indicating a tracer cartridge. 1984 Middlestone Moor Community Centre built. 1560 The Gunpowder Mills at Waltham Abbey were opened.[1]. 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]. 8). 1985 There were 12 Royal Ordnance Factories still in operation. 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. This ammunition is known to have been commercially exported by the manufacturer post 1950 to Afghanistan and India. This is a list of Royal Ordnance Factories . WRA = Winchester Repeating Arms - New Haven, Connecticut. The Dene is landscaped. CHINA is known to have produced some 7.7mm rimmed ammunition for use in captured Japanese machine guns from 1945 onwards. 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: F Small Arms Ammunition Factory, Footscray, AUSTRALIA. 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. Martha Liddle, J.P., was the first person from Spennymoor to be awarded the M.B.E. DI Defence Industries, Verdun, CANADA. MF or AF Small Arms Ammunition Factory No 1, Footscray, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA. 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. 1973 Spennymoor Town Council created a Successor Council. This propellant, however, was not considered to be as stable as cordite in the tropics and cordite was, therefore, still retained as a propellant in military cartridges for the remainder of the cartridges service life. We were chosen because we had produced the most cases in a certain time and had been neither late or absent. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded .303 (identified on headstamp as 7.70) cartridges during 1918 in: Also known to have produced ball rounds in the 1920s and 30s, A VE Atelier de Construction de Valence, FRANCE. Nitro-cellulose filled .303 American WW1 Contract Pattern cartridges were produced during the period 1914 1917 as. 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. 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. My brother-in-law was taken prisoner in Italy. 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. I listened to Vera Lynne and Tommy Handley who's catchphrase was 'Ta Ta for now (TTFN)'. 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. DA Dominion Arsenal, Montreal, CANADA. In 1938 the .303 Mark VIIIZ round was approved to obtain greater effective range from the Vickers Medium Machine Gun. this was examining and weighing capsules to be used in Burma for killing mosquitoes and fleas. do not work properly without it enabled. Gateshead refugees arrived in Spennymoor. The views expressed are theirs and unless specifically stated are not 1880 Tudhoe Iron Works produced 17,000 tons of iron and 2,000 tons of steel. Single lineRailway Bridge built over High Street. The back streets stand deep in filth and mud. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: G, GB or GBF Greenwood and Batley, Leeds, UNITED KINGDOM. ROF Steeton; SAA Factory No. Royal Arsenal Factory No 1. Incendiary bombs burn down Tudhoe Colliery Co-op. By this time we were given mugs of tea and corned beef sarnies. The Manor of Merrington belonged successively to the priors, monks and dean and chapter of Durham Cathedral. Kirk Merrington football field refurbished. Providing . 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. The works then possessed the largest mill in Europe, capable of rolling plates up to 13 feet in width. 1803 the Royal Carriage Department was set up, 1804 Manufacture of small arms began at the Tower of London. Later, Binchester became one of the vills of the Earl of Northumberland who held it until 1420 when it passed to the Nevilles who finally forfeited it with other lands in 1569. Dunkirk survivors housed in halls and schools. Spennymoor, United Kingdom (1913-1945). Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded .303 cartridges: Ball, Mk 7 for 1914 1917 military contracts, Ball, Mk 7Z ( American WW2 Contract Pattern ). 1912 Durham Road Higher Elementary School opened. VE Cartoucherie de Valence, FRANCE. Royal Ordnance Factory. 1875 Croxdale Colliery explosion 1 miner killed. My husband worked in the mines with Bevin Boys. At the factory we made .303 and .5 cases and caps, as well as bullets. VPT Valtion Patruunatehdas, Lapua, FINLAND. This mark of bullet remained the standard ball round for the remainder of the .303 cartridges service life. 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