It is known to have produced .303 cartridges in: Ball, Cordite Mk 2, Mk 2 Special, Mk 6 and Mk 7. FNT Fabrica Nacional de Espana, Palencia, SPAIN. Used code U from 1939 1961 and SAM thereafter. This factory was set up as part of the 1939-45 war emergency plans and produced its first complete .303 rounds in October 1940. IMPERIAL Canadian Industries Ltd, Montreal, CANADA and Plattsburg, NY, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. High Street, manufacturing in Britain. 1899 Control of the factories was returned to the Ordnance Department. 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. UT = Utah Ordnance Plant - Salt Lake City, Utah. Cases were supplied by MJ, Ball Mk 7 (loaded into cases with BVI head stamp). Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded 7.7 x 56R ammunition which is interchangeable with the .303 cartridge in: SR Royal Ordnance Factory, Spennymoor, Durham, UNITED KINGDOM. 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. 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. Known to have produced .303 ball cartridges, A.VIS Atelier de Fabrication de Vincinnes, FRANCE. The headstamp code B denoting the manufacturer should not be confused with B as in BVIIZ which indicates incendiary ammunition. This firm was first formed by George Kynoch at Witton in 1862 as a manufacturer of percussion caps. My brother-in-law was taken prisoner in Italy. This factory was set up as part of the 1939-1945 war emergency expansion plan. 1807 Small arms manufacture moved to the Royal Manufactory of Small Arms at Lewisham. Royal Powder Mill Factory No 31. On top of these economic misfortunes came the terrible explosion at Tudhoe Colliery in 1882 when 37 lives were lost. 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. 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. Known to have manufactured .303 cartridges in: Ball, Nitro-cellulose Mk 7Z ( Late Pattern ), Blank, Nitro-cellulose L Mk 5Z ( Canadian Pattern ). These factories were given the designation Royal Ordnance Factories (ROF). Later, effective tracer and incendiary composition operations were also carried out at Witton. Although the factory was completed in 1816, it was not until the 1850s that it was in a position to produce large enough quantities of weapons to service the British military after mechanised machinery from the US was installed. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in 1942 only. We were shown how the airmen assembled our bullets and taken to try the Frainer Bomber (named the Lincoln Frainer). 1951 Population 19,740. 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. This was very interesting there of course was a special way of doing this that it opened properly when required. Tudhoe football field created. Archive List > United Kingdom > Wearside and County Durham, Submitted by Christine Rome at Spennymoor Library on behalf of Elizabeth Hodgson (ne Monaghan). 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. 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. Royal Small Arms Factory Factory No 2. Spennymoor had elected Labour MPs for many years, but in recent times the area has become more marginal. The Mark VI round was introduced in 1904 with a 215 grain jacketed round nosed bullet similar to the Mark II bullet but with a thinner jacket. 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. Incendiary B Mk 3, B Mk 4Z*, B Mk 6, B Mk 6Z. BLANCH J Blanch & Sons of Fenchurch St, London, UNITED KINGDOM. Town Hall, MW Small Arms Ammunition Factory No 6, Welchpool, AUSTRALIA. King Street Council School built. D, DF, N or S Indian Government Ammunition Factory, Dum Dum, Calcutta, INDIA. This factory made and marked cases but filling was carried out at the Royal Ordnance Factory Swynnerton, Staffs. this was examining and weighing capsules to be used in Burma for killing mosquitoes and fleas. Known to have manufactured .303 cartridges in: K4 Imperial Chemical Industries Kynoch factory at Yeading, Hayes, Middlesex, UNITED KINGDOM. Although schemes were inaugurated to relieve the gloom nothing could make up for the lack of steady employment. The origin of the name remains somewhat uncertain some believe it to be derived from the Latin Spina which means a thorn (possibly from the Roman influence at Binchester) and Mor which was the Anglo-Saxon word for a moor. RTS Richard Threlfall and Sons, UNITED KINGDOM. Known to have manufactured nitro-cellulose loaded .303 Ball, Mk 7 cartridges. 1942 1942 1943 1944 Tikkakoski Arsenal - Finland Tikkakoski was the first private arms manufacturer in Finland. 1936 Parishes of Byers green, Middlestone Moor, Kirk Merrington and part of Hett added to the town. IS - Royal Ordnance Pension Scheme - 2022. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded .303 cartridges in: Ball, Mk 7. Dedication of Venerable Bede Mission Church. 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. I remember lads coming home from Dunkirk, I helped WRVS to feed and sew stripes on their clothes. Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and This ammunition is known to have been commercially exported by the manufacturer post 1950 to Afghanistan and India. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: Tracer G Mk 2 (Australian Pattern) (projectiles were filled by MS at Salisbury). 1988 Spennymoor Cricket Club Ground purchased. 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. The most common system with the .303 cartridge used coloured bullet tips or colour around the annulus of the primer cap. 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 nitro-cellulose loaded Imperial Japanese Navy Year Type 92 Machine Gun ammunition, which is interchangeable with the .303 cartridge in: F or AF or SAAF Small Arms Ammunition Factory, Footscray, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA. Spennymoor, United Kingdom (1913-1945). This factory manufactured cartridges for use by the British Army in India as well as the Indian Army. 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. 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. c 1948. 2. ROF Blackpole; SAA Factory No. 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 . ROF Bishopton; Explosive ROF (3 factories). Population rises to 19,560. 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. Population 16,369. 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. When operational, the Bishopton site was the Royal Ordnance's primary manufacturer of propellants for gun and rocket systems and around 75% of the . Lost in the Blackout. Belisha Beacons located in Spennymoor High Street. They had a filling factory at Abbey Wood and later during the 1939-45 war a filling factory at Farnham. The end of World War II, however, saw this industrial activity greatly curtailed and hard times returned, although without the severity of the earlier pre-war years. 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. Spennymoor, United Kingdom (1913-1945). Manufactured .303 cartridges from 1915 1918 in: Incendiary Buckingham (VII.B), B Mk 1, B Mk 2Z, SAAF Small Arms Factory Footscray, AUSTRALIA. 1994 Town wins National Allotment Society Waterlow Trophy. Woolwich Arsenal, of which the Royal Laboratory was only a part, is situated in South East London on the River Thames. 1969 Courtaulds Ltd. open spinning factory at Green Lane. 1921 Royal Ordnance took over the National Filling Factories. 915.78 GBX Go to investor center Data is from the London Stock Exchange and may be delayed by 15 minutes or more. It is known to have manufactured .303 cartridges in: Cartridge Rifle Grenade, Cordite H Mk 3 and H Mk 5. Known to have manufactured .303 cartridges in: GKB or K George Kynoch, Birmingham, 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. . ETHIOPA is known to have produced .303 ball cartridges c 1959, FINLAND is known to have produced .303 inch cartridges in various loadings including Armour Piercing, Ball, Incendiary, Tracer and Drill rounds, FRANCE manufactured several variants of the .303 cartridge, including: Ball, Tracer, Armour piercing, Armour piercing / Tracer and Incendiary rounds, IRAQ is known to have produced .303 Ball cartridges, ISRAEL is known to have manufactured .303 ball cartridges at the Government Arsenal, Tel Aviv, Israel. 1970 Moor Grange sheltered accommodation completed. Known to have produced 7.7 x 56R ball cartridges which are interchangeable with the .303 cartridge. 8 ROF Birtley. 1869 Shaft sunk at Tudhoe Grange Colliery. TW = Twin Cities Ordnance Plant - Minneapolis, Minnesota. 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. Production of ammunition ceased in 1944. The plaque was unveiled on the former Royal Ordnance Factory building, now an activity centre, by 100-year-old angel Muriel Scott. 1887 Renamed the Royal Ordnance Factories, control passed to the financial secretary's Civil Department. My thanks to John Kindred for clarification on the monograms used on Australian small arms ammunition. Produced .303 Mk 7 ball ammunition in cases believed to be made by Eley. They are known to have manufactured .303 cartridges in: GA Grenfell and Accles Ltd, Perry Barr, Birmingham, UNITED KINGDOM. Providing . I worked at the Royal Ordnance factory (ROF) at Spennymoor. 1818 The work of the Lewisham establishment was transferred to Enfield. 1945 World War II ended. Skip to main content Hansard UK Parliament Hansard Brighter Days Town Hall refurbished. He was in a parachute regiment when Italy capitulated. This round had a muzzle velocity of 1830 feet per second and a chamber pressure of about 19 tons per square inch. The comparative isolation of its moorland situation ended too with the opening of a branch railway from the mainline at Ferryhill in 1876. Steve 11-03-2014, 06:29 PM #3 lithoman Three closed in 1924 and the strike saw another two fail. 1971 New sewage plant built at Tudhoe Mill. 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. This company represents the only new commercial ammunition manufacturer put into business by the Government as a result of demand in the 1914- 18 war. An era of prosperity dawned in the 1860s and 1870s when the miners were earning 1 per day. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: Ball, Mks 7 and 8Z. 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. Royal Ordnance Factory. On nitro-cellulose loaded .303 Mk 7z Ball cartridges made by FNM of Moscavide, PORTUGAL. 1973 Spennymoor Town Council created a Successor Council. 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. Most of the content on this site is created by our users, who are members of the 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. 1986 Tudhoe Community Centre built. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: KF or K Indian Government Ammunition Factory Kirkee (or Kirkee Arsenal), near Poona, INDIA. The Rise of Industry This powder charge being pressed into a pellet with both ends slightly rounded and pierced with a flash hole through the centre. 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. Copyright of content contributed to this Archive rests with the author. 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. Aycliffe filled the cases which we produced and this was very dangerous work. 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. It was intended as a training aid only, for the observation of long range shooting where accuracy of fire was not always easily defined, even if tracer ammunition was used. Spennymoor Leisure Pool opened cost 1.6m. 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. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: MS Explosives Factory, Salisbury, AUSTRALIA. 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. 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. I was chosen along with 2 other girls to visit Goosepool Aerodrome (now Durham/Tees Valley International Airport), where the Canadian. Yokosuka Naval Arsenal, JAPAN. It began production of .303 ammunition in 1941 initially with the headstamp code of two arrows replacing these in 1942 with the code SR. Spennymoor Health Centre opened. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: Armour Piercing W Mk 1, W Mk 1 Special and W Mk 1Z, Cartridge Rifle Grenade, Cordite H Mk 2, H Mk 4 and H Mk 4Z, Incendiary B Mk 6, B Mk 6Z, B Mk 7 and B Mk 7Z. The bullet to this round was designed to break up with a puff of smoke on impact with a target or the ground . 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. 1763 The Greenwich magazine was moved to Purfleet. This story has been placed in the following categories. R-P Remington Arms Co, Bridgeport, Conn., UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Whitworth Park Golf Club (9 holes) opens. Used the monogram 1942 to 1943. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded 7.7 x 56R ball ammunition which is interchangeable with the .303 cartridges. Known to have manufactured 7.7 x 56R bulleted blanks, which are interchangeable with the .303 cartridge. 1968 Bessemer Park Housing commenced (1,009 houses). 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. 102.56 KB. 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. Other methods include colouring of part or the whole of the cartridge case. 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. Believed to have manufactured .303 ammunition as early as 1898 until 1918. Former Essoldo/Tivoli cinema building destroyed by fire. Johnson, who made a fortune out of it. Should the reader be aware of any omissions in this manufacturers listing then the author would be very pleased to hear from them. info@spennymoor-tc.gov.uk Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: Tracer G Mk 2,G Mk 3, G Mk 4, G Mk 5 and G Mk 6. A new 3-bedroom semi cost 3,375 to buy on private housing estate. 20. Manufactured .303 cartridges with this headstamp March 1925 to April 1926. U or SAM South African Mint, Pretoria, SOUTH AFRICA. Today, Merrington church is one of the most prominent local landmarks. 1942 1943 1944 Tikkakoski Arsenal - Finland Tikkakoski was the first private arms manufacturer in Finland manufacturer should be... 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