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. In 1918 this factory had the capacity to produce about 5.4 million rounds per month. This factory was part of the 1939- 45 war emergency expansion plans being situated near Crewe and is still in operation. Population 16,369. 1989 Byers Green Village Hall extended and refurbished. Cases were supplied by MJ, Ball Mk 7 (loaded into cases with BVI head stamp). This is a list of Royal Ordnance Factories . Known to have manufactured .303 cartridges in: Ball, Nitro-cellulose Mk 7Z ( Late Pattern ), Blank, Nitro-cellulose L Mk 5Z ( Canadian Pattern ). In addition to these plants the original cap production was maintained at Witton. Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and The first blow was the closure in 1901 of the ironworks which had been rendered obsolete by the pace of change elsewhere. manufacturing in Britain. SR = Royal Ordnance Factory - Spennymoor, United Kingdom. DWM Deutsche Waffen Und Munitionsfabrik, Karlsruhe, GERMANY. Most countries do not, unlike Britain, identify the bullet by the headstamp, so such colour markings are often the only way to identify the bullet in use. Types of Royal Ordnance Factories (ROFs) 1. 1855 Foundation stone laid at St Pauls Church. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded .303 cartridges: Ball, Mk 7 for 1914 1917 military contracts, Ball, Mk 7Z ( American WW2 Contract Pattern ). 2001 Memorial to two Hurricane pilots killed in aircrash at Tudhoe in 1942 unveiled at York Hill Cemetery. 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 cartridge is interchangeable with the .303 British cartridge. 8 ROF Beech Hill, Wigan ROF Birtley. UT = Utah Ordnance Plant - Salt Lake City, Utah. 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. Spennymoor, United Kingdom (1913-1945). My sister lived in Billingham which was badly bombed, the sky was full of barrage balloons to protect the ICI factory. Cases were made in Birmingham then assembled and loaded at the Abbey Wood Factory, next to Woolwich Arsenal. Call Us: 01388 815276 These men, early industrial workers, wore their hair long and on these gala days it flowed freely over their shoulders instead of, as usually was the case, being tied in curls. Penny Rate Product 303. KN Kings Norton Metal Co., Birmingham, UNITED KINGDOM. In 1910 the 174 grain pointed Mark VII bullet was adopted and the muzzle velocity was increased to 2440 feet per second. ROF Aycliffe; Filling Factory No. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: KF or K Indian Government Ammunition Factory Kirkee (or Kirkee Arsenal), near Poona, INDIA. Royal Small Arms Factory Enfield Factory No 2. 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. Royal Ordnance Factory, Spennymoor - Hansard - UK Parliament Hansard record of the item : 'Royal Ordnance Factory, Spennymoor' on Thursday 31 May 1945. Dunkirk survivors housed in halls and schools. DI Defence Industries, Verdun, CANADA. 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. 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. For any other comments, please Contact Us. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded .303 Ball cartridges, VIS Atelier de Chargement de Vincennes, FRANCE. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: DC Defence Industries, Brownsburgh, Quebec, CANADA. Known to have produced .303 cartridges 1914 1918 in: MAXIM Maxim Arms Co.,London, UNITED KINGDOM. Royal Small Arms Factory Factory No 2. ( A standing for Armscore ). Spennymoor Settlement, opened in 1931 with a grant from the Pilgrim Trust, aimed to support the unemployed by encouraging : Tolerant neighbourliness and voluntary social service and {giving} its members opportunities for increasing their knowledge, widening their interests and cultivating their creative powers in a friendly atmosphere. Birmingham Metal and Munitions had ceased manufacture of ammunition by 1920. 299.06 KB. I worked at the Royal Ordnance factory (ROF) at Spennymoor. In addition to the .303 cartridges manufactured for Egypt this company also manufactured nitro-cellulose loaded 7.7 x 56R cartridges, which are interchangeable with the .303 round and are known to have been produced in: Incendiary Armour Piercing with Thermite filling, Incendiary Armour Piercing with Phosphorus filling, C.. Pirotecnico di Capua, ITALY. BPD Bombrini, Parodi et Delfino, Rome ITALY. Royal Ordnance, including the Royal Ordnance Factories, makers of guns, ammunition and explosives. This is a list of Royal Ordnance Factories . 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. Modern Spennymoor was built on mining and has its origins with the sinking of the Wittered pit in 1839. 2. 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. Colour coding appears in several forms on small arms ammunition. .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 33/4m Bessemer Park Estate completed. 1716 Subsequently the Royal Brass Foundry was established for the manufacture of brass ordnance. A further reorganisation and expansion followed in 1889 when George Kynoch was ousted from the management and this then culminated in a further change of title to Kynoch Ltd in 1897. We had stirrup pumps to put out fires from Incendiary Bombs. A or AI Artillerie Inrichtingen, Hembrug, NETHERLANDS. 39 and 40. Known to have produced .303 ball cartridges. 1985 There were 12 Royal Ordnance Factories still in operation. It initially had a small boxer type primer and was officially designated Cartridge, S.A., Ball, Magazine Rifle, Mark 1.C. 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. 1942 Both pilots killed when two Hawker Hurricane aircraft collided and crashed at Tudhoe. RA Raufoss Ammunisjonsfabrikker, Raufoss, NORWAY. King Street Council School built. Butchers Race, one of the Five Lanes which meet at Tudhoe Crossroads, was so named after this foray. 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. ROF Queniborough; Filling Factory No. Known to have manufactured nitro-cellulose loaded .303 cartridges in: Ball, L1A1 to British Government contract(1982-85). My brother-in-law was taken prisoner in Italy. 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. 1906 Birmingham Small Arms Co took over the Royal Small Arms Factory at Sparkbrook[5]. 1858 Page Bank Colliery disaster 10 miners killed. This factory was set up as part of the 1939-45 war emergency plans and produced its first complete .303 rounds in October 1940. 1803 the Royal Carriage Department was set up, 1804 Manufacture of small arms began at the Tower of London. 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. Royal Ordnance Factories were for explosives manufacture, filling of munitions and engineering. Believed to have manufactured .303 ammunition as early as 1898 until 1918. Known to have produced .303 ball cartridges. Her advance guards clashed with some of Douglas men near Ferryhill and chased them back to the bridge at Croxdale (Sunderland Bridge). Royal Navy Destroyer H.M.S. I worked at the Royal Ordnance factory (ROF) at Spennymoor. 1887 Renamed the Royal Ordnance Factories, control passed to the financial secretary's Civil Department. The arms factory was closed in 1987. IMPERIAL Canadian Industries Ltd, Montreal, CANADA and Plattsburg, NY, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Find out how you can use this. Powder was stored at Greenwich from an early date. This producer is now known as Metallwerk Elisenhutte GmbH Nassau. This became the Royal Small Arms Factory (Birmingham). DA Dominion Arsenal, Montreal, CANADA. U or SAM South African Mint, Pretoria, SOUTH AFRICA. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: Armour Piercing W Mk 1 and W Mk 1 Special. Engineering - This type of factory produced bomb and shell casings and other metal-based components for all types of munitions. Royal Ordnance Factory. ROF Aycliffe; Filling Factory No. Although these days of rapid industrialisation and rapid growth of population were days of ignorance and squalor, they also saw the 19th century drive for education and religion. During WW1 Eley produced in excess of 209 Million .303 Mk 7 cartridges. Aycliffe filled the cases which we produced and this was very dangerous work. DC Dominion Cartridge Company which later became the Dominion Ammunition Division of Canadian Industries Ltd. There has been a film made about these men "The guinea pigs". This distinction was abandoned in May 1920 and thereafter all ball rounds had the purple annulus. 1986 Tudhoe Community Centre built. These rounds were extensively developed over the years and saw several Mark numbers. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: G..F3 or C..F3 Government Cartridge Factory No 3, Blackpole, Worcestershire, UNITED KINGDOM. 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. ROF Blackpole; SAA Factory No. This firm was first formed by George Kynoch at Witton in 1862 as a manufacturer of percussion caps. ROF Brackla; ROF 41 at Brackla and ROF 53 at Waterton, ROF Dunham on the Hill; Explosives storage depot. 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. RH Raleigh Cycle Co, Nottingham, UNITED KINGDOM. text of this web site is available under the Creative Kenmirs Furniture Factory and the old Arcadia Cinema were both destroyed by fire. It began production of .303 ammunition in 1941 initially with the headstamp code of two arrows replacing these in 1942 with the code SR. 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. 8 ROF Birtley. Wesleyan Church opened. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: Short Range Practice ( New Zealand Pattern), 215 gr RNSP, 180 gr PSP, 180 gr HP, 174 gr PSP, 150 gr PSP, 130 gr PSP and 150 gr HP Sporting Ammunition, Mks 4 and 5 Big Game Exploder Sporting Ammunition. Electric lighting for Spennymoor. The company was formed in the early 1890s having acquired the Holford Works of the National Arms and Ammunition Company and was in existence for only a short time. Housing, too, has made great strides since the end of the War. Other methods include colouring of part or the whole of the cartridge case. This company is believed to have manufactured .303 Ball, Blackpowder Mk 2 cartridges from 1890. MI Societe Meridionale dIndustrie, Robert Paulet & Cie ( formerly called Cartoucherie Leon Paulet), Marseille, FRANCE. Inside, the most interesting feature is the screen, a typical example of late-17th century work. Band Stand refurbished to its former state. Gateshead refugees arrived in Spennymoor. The following .303 cartridges are known to have been produced since 1889: Armour Piercing Mks VII.S, VII.P, VII.PZ, VII.W, VII.WZ, W Mk 1, Ball, Cordite Mks 1, 2, 2*, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7, Ball, Nitro-cellulose Mks 7z, 8z & 7z RC ( reduced charge ), Ball, Short Range Practice, Cordite Mks 1,2,3 and 4, Cartridge Rifle Grenade, Cordite Mks 1 and 2, Cartridge Discharger, Blackpowder E Mk 1T, Drill D Mk 6, D Mk 6*, D Mk 7, D Mk 8 and D Mk 9, Explosive R Mk 1, R Mk 2, R Mk 3, and R Mk 3*. 1944 Christmas Eve a stray German VI Flying Bomb exploded in Tudhoe Cricket Club field at 6 am D-Day, 6th June. Royal Ordnance Factory. 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. 1935 Tudhoe Colliery closes. Penny Rate Product 239. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: Blank, Nitro-cellulose L Canadian Mk 1 (1955 & 1956). Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. . 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. Johnson, who made a fortune out of it. Spennymoor is a town in County Durham, England. The .303 British Service cartridge, commonly known as the .303 or .303 British was adopted by Britain along with the Lee Metford Rifle in 1889. ROF Aycliffe; ROF 59 (Filling Factory No. ROF Blackburn. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded 7.7 x 56R ammunition, which is interchangeable with the .303 cartridge in: T.BLAND & SONS Commercial .303 ammunition loaded by T. Bland & Sons, London, UNITED KINGDOM in ball and sporting configurations. c 1948. 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. Slightly before that, in the 1860s, a rather advanced area of working-class housing had been erected at Tudhoe Grange built by Marmaduke Salvin to house local workers. Small Arms Ammunition - This type of factory was, in essence, an Engineering factory which specialised in the production of small arms shell casings. Known to have produced .303 ball cartridges during 1988. 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. We were then taken to the canteen for lunch, which consisted of battered spam and chips. We were chosen because we had produced the most cases in a certain time and had been neither late or absent. The cases were made by BSA for Maxim machine guns in the 1890s. 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. Known to have manufactured 7.7 x 56R bulleted blanks, which are interchangeable with the .303 cartridge. Skip to main content Hansard UK Parliament Hansard At the factory we made .303 and .5 cases and caps, as well as bullets. 1818 The work of the Lewisham establishment was transferred to Enfield. Modern Spennymoor was built on mining and has its origins with the sinking of the Wittered pit in 1839. T = Tikkakoski Arsenal - Finland. Set up as part of the 1939-45 war emergency expansion plans. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded .303 cartridges in: 180 gr jacketed soft point sporting ammunition, 150 gr jacketed soft point sporting ammunition. The Captain without thinking shouted 'shoot the bugger' and this is what the lads did and were in serious trouble. This round had a muzzle velocity of 1830 feet per second and a chamber pressure of about 19 tons per square inch. The works then possessed the largest mill in Europe, capable of rolling plates up to 13 feet in width. 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