In 1677 the small freeholders and the local gentry divided 243 acres of the moor between themselves, an act which was confirmed by the Chancery Court. K2 Imperial Chemical Industries Kynoch factory at Standish, near Wigan, Lancs, UNITED KINGDOM. In 1918 this factory had the capacity to produce about 5.4 million rounds per month. Kirk Merrington football field refurbished. 1560 The Gunpowder Mills at Waltham Abbey were opened.[1]. 1877 New iron Railway Bridge replaced the old wooden Bridge over the High Street. Its head office is at Glascoed. We were chosen because we had produced the most cases in a certain time and had been neither late or absent. 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. 1949 Bungalows built at Middlestone Moor. Believed to have manufactured .303 ammunition as early as 1898 until 1918. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy 8 ROF Birtley. 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. 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. These should not be confused with the manufacturers identification code. When U used with a diamond this indicates manufacture in a subsidiary factory at Kimberley. Troubled Years For any other comments, please Contact Us. Town wins Northumbria in Bloom (Town Section). Grace's Guide To British Industrial History, https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/index.php?title=Royal_Ordnance&oldid=1277361, Creative The huge munitions factory employed some 17,000 . 1939 Outbreak of World War II. 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considered however to be in contravention of the St Petersburg Declaration and the Hague Convention, in 1903 they were withdrawn from active service and were afterwards to be used solely for target practice. I remember Tudhoe Colliery being bombed. We were also allowed inside a Halifax Bomber and according to a map we flew all over Darlington and Durham. ROF Brackla; Filling Factory No. Find out how you can use this. 8 ROF Beech Hill, Wigan ROF Birtley. In 1923 only four houses were built and there was still massive overcrowding in back to back properties. manufacturing in Britain. P or PC Peters Cartridge Co., Kings Mills, Ohio, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 1942 1942 1943 1944 Tikkakoski Arsenal - Finland Tikkakoski was the first private arms manufacturer in Finland. On UK Government contracts 1914 1915. 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! The Cleveland iron trade, which used the coal and coke produced at Spennymoor, was depressed. Eley Brothers are known to have produced .303 cartridges in: Explosive Pomeroy Mk 1, PSA Mk 1, PSA (VII.A) MK 1, RL Tracer Mk 1, Tracer SPK Mk VII.T and SPG (VII.G) Mk 1Z. A new 3-bedroom semi cost 3,375 to buy on private housing estate. 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. These factories were given the designation Royal Ordnance Factories (ROF). World War II had diverse effects upon the town. 1942 There were 42 Royal Ordnance factories at this time, of which 24 were engineering, 8 made explosives, and 10 were engaged in filling ordnance (these numbers seem to have been confused by the MP reporting these statistics). Royal Navy Destroyer H.M.S. To see the FNT Fabrica Nacional de Espana, Palencia, SPAIN. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: MJB Incendiary Annexe to MJ Hendon, AUSTRALIA. Spennymoor, United Kingdom (1913-1945). 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. This firm was first formed by George Kynoch at Witton in 1862 as a manufacturer of percussion caps. 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. Royal Ordnance Factory Leeds, first opened as a munitions factory in December 1915 and opened as an ROF in January 1936, was one of a number of Royal Ordnance Factories created at the start of the Second World War . 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 cartridges in: Ball, Mk 7. 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 ). HXP Greek Powder and Cartridge Co, Athens, GREECE. 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. 1951 Population 19,740. 1942 Both pilots killed when two Hawker Hurricane aircraft collided and crashed at Tudhoe. EGYPT is known to have produced .303 ball ammunition at the Government Arsenal Shoubra, United Arab Republic and Factory No 10 at Alexandria, Egypt. ROF Aycliffe; Filling Factory No. It became G. Kynoch & Co Ltd in 1884 and by then was manufacturing metallic ammunition. Cost 87,000. 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 ). Tudhoe and Spennymoor Local History Society founded. 1912 Durham Road Higher Elementary School opened. Spennymoor, WWI Massive increase in production. 1931 Pilgrim Trust founds the Settlement. IMPERIAL Canadian Industries Ltd, Montreal, CANADA and Plattsburg, NY, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 13 Oct 2022 - Notice to Royal Ordnance Pension Scheme ("The Scheme") Members. 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. SR = Royal Ordnance Factory - Spennymoor, United Kingdom. VPT Valtion Patruunatehdas, Lapua, FINLAND. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded cartridges in: APX Atelier de Construction de Puteaux, FRANCE. PMP Pretoria Metal Pressings (Pty) Ltd., Pretoria, SOUTH AFRICA. I listened to Vera Lynne and Tommy Handley who's catchphrase was 'Ta Ta for now (TTFN)'. Ammunition was made at Woolwich long before the adoption of the .303 cartridge in 1889. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded 7.7 x 56R ball ammunition which is interchangeable with the .303 cartridges. 1973 Spennymoor Town Council created a Successor Council. 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). The MG monogram was changed to MF in 1949 which was used until 1962. 1898 North Eastern Hotel destroyed by fire. UT = Utah Ordnance Plant - Salt Lake City, Utah. . Steve 11-03-2014, 06:29 PM #3 lithoman 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. We sometimes danced and had concerts given by our work mates. Email: info@spennymoor-tc.gov.uk. The trade depression of the late 19th century, however, caused its closure in 1882. Kenmirs Furniture Factory and the old Arcadia Cinema were both destroyed by fire. MI Societe Meridionale dIndustrie, Robert Paulet & Cie ( formerly called Cartoucherie Leon Paulet), Marseille, FRANCE. Known to have manufactured nitro-cellulose loaded .303 ball cartridges for export pre 1939. Population rises to 19,560. The plaque was unveiled on the former Royal Ordnance Factory building, now an activity centre, by 100-year-old angel Muriel Scott. 1984 Royal Armament Research and Development Establishment's Waltham Abbey south site became part of Royal Ordnance. Known to have manufactured nitro-cellulose loaded .303 Ball, Mk 7 cartridges. D, DF, N or S Indian Government Ammunition Factory, Dum Dum, Calcutta, INDIA. 1787 Purchase of the powdermill at Waltham Abbey which was named the Royal Gunpowder Factory. 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. ROF Blackpole; SAA Factory No. Up to 1800 the moor remained largely barren and the few roads across it were dangerous. Tracer, armour piercing and incendiary cartridges were adopted by the British Government during 1915, explosive bullets having been approved for service in 1916. The Rise of Industry Known to have produced .303 ball cartridges in 1924. 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. After May 1918 the CAC monogram was used with two arrows . 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]. More than 17,000 women worked at the factory, and Ms Scott said . M Nobel Explosives Ltd., Manchester, UNITED KINGDOM. Royal Ordnance Factory. 1759 Government purchase of the privately-owned gunpowder mill at Faversham and the establishment there of the Royal Powder Mill. 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. Yokosuka Naval Arsenal, JAPAN. 1930 New Tivoli cinema opened at a cost of 15,000. My sister lived in Billingham which was badly bombed, the sky was full of barrage balloons to protect the ICI factory. 1971 New sewage plant built at Tudhoe Mill. Incendiary Buckingham (VII.B), B Mk 1, B Mk 2Z, B Mk 4,B Mk 4. 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. Incendiary B Mk 3, B Mk 4Z*, B Mk 6, B Mk 6Z. These squalid conditions were paralleled by the ever-uncertain economic conditions in industry. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: (The metal components for these rounds were manufactured by MH and MJ at Hendon). This web publication contains 147,919 pages of 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. New Railway station built at Spennymoor. Manufactured .303 cartridges with this headstamp March 1925 to April 1926. This factory made and marked cases but filling was carried out at the Royal Ordnance Factory Swynnerton, Staffs. 102.56 KB. 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. On British military contracts 1940-45 180 & 215 gr jacketed soft point sporting ammunition. 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. On top of these economic misfortunes came the terrible explosion at Tudhoe Colliery in 1882 when 37 lives were lost. 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. This page was last edited on 27 May 2022, at 11:53. This factory made and marked cases but filling was carried out at the Royal Ordnance Factory Swynnerton, Staffs. Known to have produced .303 ball cartridges. It was involved in the production of .303 cartridges in only a very limited way and is known to have manufactured these cartridges in: Tracer G Mk 2 (in cases dated 1943 and 1944). The following sections attempt to identify the manufacturers of the .303 cartridge and whilst it is acknowledged that this may not a complete listing I hope it will give some insight into this historically important cartridge. The coal industry has been replaced by manufacturers of consumer goods, and factories of Electrolux, Thorn Lighting and Black and Decker were established. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded .303 cartridges in: AE Arsenal do Ejercito, Lisbon, PORTUGAL. Known to have produced .303 cartridges 1941 1945 in: RL Royal Laboratory, Woolwich Arsenal, Kent, UNITED KINGDOM. Known to have manufactured .303 cartridges in: MH Small Arms Ammunition Factory No 3, Hendon, AUSTRALIA. This factory was part of the 1939-45 war emergency expansion plan. 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. HN Royal Ordnance Factory, Hirwaun, South Wales, UNITED KINGDOM. I was chosen along with 2 other girls to visit Goosepool Aerodrome (now Durham/Tees Valley International Airport), where the Canadian. 1871 Tower Brewery built at Tudhoe Grange. The next day the main bodies of the two armies met at Nevilles Cross, near Durham, and the Scots were slaughtered. 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. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: Blank, Nitro-cellulose L Canadian Mk 1 (1955 & 1956). 5. The following .303 cartridges are known to have been produced by Kynoch: Armour Piercing Mks VII.S, VII.P, VII.W, W Mk 1 and W Mk 1Z, Ball, Nitro-cellulose Mk 8z with Aluminium Case, Drill, D Mk 6, D Mk 8, D Mk 9 and D Mk 10. 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. This powder charge being pressed into a pellet with both ends slightly rounded and pierced with a flash hole through the centre. Spennymoor had elected Labour MPs for many years, but in recent times the area has become more marginal. DL16 6DG. The 800 house estate at Greenways and the 300 house estate at Tudhoe Grange were started, although it was not until the industrial prosperity of the 1970s that private house building reached 100 a year. Population 16,369. FC Federal Cartridge Co, Anoka, Minn., UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: G, GB or GBF Greenwood and Batley, Leeds, UNITED KINGDOM. Spennymoor, United Kingdom (1913-1945). 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. On explosive anti Zeplin cartridges. 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. ROF Swynnerton; Filling Factory No. Beretta Group owns now the Tikka arms brand. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in 1942 only. V.E.Day. WRA = Winchester Repeating Arms - New Haven, Connecticut. Penny Rate Product 239. Known to have produced .303 ball cartridges. 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. 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. 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. 1988 Spennymoor Cricket Club Ground purchased. Royal Ordnance Factory. A fourth royal factory, the Royal Aircraft Factory at Farnborough was also taken over by the Ministry in 1916. My thanks to John Kindred for clarification on the monograms used on Australian small arms ammunition. T = Tikkakoski Arsenal - Finland. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: KF or K Indian Government Ammunition Factory Kirkee (or Kirkee Arsenal), near Poona, INDIA. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: DC Defence Industries, Brownsburgh, Quebec, CANADA. 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. 2003 Spennymoor Cemetery Memorial Garden officially opened. MQ Small Arms Ammunition Factory No 5, Rocklea, AUSTRALIA. This change was agreed in August 1915 and thus these sites became nominally part of the National Factory programme. This factory was part of the 1939-45 war emergency expansion plan. Her advance guards clashed with some of Douglas men near Ferryhill and chased them back to the bridge at Croxdale (Sunderland Bridge). 1891 Whitworth Hall restored after fire of 1877. 1899 Control of the factories was returned to the Ordnance Department. The land on which Spennymoor now stands was once a vast expanse of moorland covered with thorn and whin bushes (Spenny Moor). 22. 1853 Tudhoe Ironworks established. ROF Brackla; ROF 41 at Brackla and ROF 53 at Waterton, ROF Dunham on the Hill; Explosives storage depot. BPD Bombrini, Parodi et Delfino, Rome ITALY. Next we went with the WAAFs to see how they packed parachutes for the boys. He was in a parachute regiment when Italy capitulated. 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. At the factory we made .303 and .5 cases and caps, as well as bullets. Engineering - This type of factory produced bomb and shell casings and other metal-based components for all types of munitions. Made dummy drill rounds with a one piece tinplate case and bullet and having a crimped on base in 1915. Spennymoor Leisure Pool opened cost 1.6m. 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. Durham Light Infantry Brigade had lots of men from Spennymoor were sent to Oxford to train for overseas, they were billeted in a brewery in Nook Norton. Over the next 2 years about 40000 was invested in re-equipping the factory[3]. 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