Manufactured .303 cartridges with this headstamp March 1925 to April 1926. Known to have produced .303 ball cartridges. 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 coal industry. Tudhoe football field created. WCC Western Cartridge Co., East Alton, Ill., UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. We were introduced to several top men who told us our visit had been delayed due to various reasons, because of raids and moonlight. PMP Pretoria Metal Pressings (Pty) Ltd., Pretoria, SOUTH AFRICA. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: G, GB or GBF Greenwood and Batley, Leeds, UNITED KINGDOM. Martha Liddle, J.P., was the first person from Spennymoor to be awarded the M.B.E. Spennymoor, United Kingdom (1913-1945). 22. Penny Rate Product 239. We sometimes danced and had concerts given by our work mates. 1990 Town Council wins Waterlow Trophy for fourth year. It stands above the Wear Valley approximately seven miles south of Durham. This powder charge being pressed into a pellet with both ends slightly rounded and pierced with a flash hole through the centre. Byers Green and Kirk Merrington redeveloped. There was a glazeboard wad on top of the charge to protect the base of the bullet. Population declines to 15,440.First Council houses erected on racecourse site. Copyright of content contributed to this Archive rests with the author. Cases were made in Birmingham then assembled and loaded at the Abbey Wood Factory, next to Woolwich Arsenal. 1966 Bus Station and Parkwood Precinct opened. 1928 Spennymoor Golf Club opened at North Close. 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. The Cleveland iron trade, which used the coal and coke produced at Spennymoor, was depressed. 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 greatest project came with the development of the Tudhoe ironworks site 70 acres that was turned into the Bessemer Park Housing Estate. Town Centre redeveloped. Known to have manufactured .303 cartridges in: GKB or K George Kynoch, Birmingham, UNITED KINGDOM. info@spennymoor-tc.gov.uk This factory is known to have produced .303 cartridges in: PS or S Pirotechnico Militar de Seville, SPAIN. IS - Royal Ordnance Pension Scheme - 2022. Known to have produced .303 cartridges with this headstamp April 1921 to December 1923, although some also produced in March 1924. They factories employed 300,000 people and were responsible for producing two-thirds of guns made in the UK and a similar proportion of the ammunition[7]. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded .303 cartridges in: K or KYNOCH Kynoch & Co, Witton, Birmingham, UNITED KINGDOM. King Street Council School built. Its head office is at Glascoed. Up to 1800 the moor remained largely barren and the few roads across it were dangerous. Former Essoldo/Tivoli cinema building destroyed by fire. More workers came from Wales and Lancashire with the opening of the mine at Page Bank (ten lives were lost in a pit fire here in 1858), and with the sinking of a new pit at Tudhoe in the 1880s. 1951 Population 19,740. 39 and 40. The production of these raw materials at Coulsons engineering works, Kenmirs furniture factory and newly-opened brickworks at Todhills were the main, if limited, sources of employment.Unemployment was over 33%. Royal Powder Mill Factory No 31. Butchers Race, one of the Five Lanes which meet at Tudhoe Crossroads, was so named after this foray. At the factory we made .303 and .5 cases and caps, as well as bullets. Made dummy drill rounds with a one piece tinplate case and bullet and having a crimped on base in 1915. ROF Brackla; ROF 41 at Brackla and ROF 53 at Waterton, ROF Dunham on the Hill; Explosives storage depot. This factory made and marked cases but filling was carried out at the Royal Ordnance Factory Swynnerton, Staffs. This factory was part of the 1939-45 war emergency expansion plan. Rough houses were built for the pit workers - houses with two rooms and a loft, more like. The most common system with the .303 cartridge used coloured bullet tips or colour around the annulus of the primer cap. Rough houses were built for the pit workers houses with two rooms and a loft, more like piggeries than human habitation according to Dodd. 1929 Prince of Wales visits Spennymoor. 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. Beretta Group owns now the Tikka arms brand. 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. This factory was built in 1916 and was administered on behalf of the Government by the Kings Norton Metal Co. Production of .303 cartridges did not start until late 1918 and the production of all ammunition finally ceased in early 1919. You appear to have JavaScript disabled in your browser settings. The Arsenal dates from 1670 and has manufactured many different items of warlike stores for the armed forces. 8 ROF Birtley. 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. RNRA Rhodesia National Rifle Association. 1988 Spennymoor Cricket Club Ground purchased. Providing . 1560 The Gunpowder Mills at Waltham Abbey were opened.[1]. 1995 H.M. Queen Elizabeth II visited the Thorn Lighting factory at Spennymoor. 1942 Both pilots killed when two Hawker Hurricane aircraft collided and crashed at Tudhoe. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Used the same annulus colour coding as United Kingdom for ammunition supplied under contract to the British Government during both the First and Second World Wars. 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. This factory was set up as part of the 1939-45 war emergency expansion plan. Download. An era of prosperity dawned in the 1860s and 1870s when the miners were earning 1 per day. It is impossible to walk between the rows of cottages without being convinced that the surface of the ground is to a large extent composed of the overflowing contents of these midden boxes. Royal Arsenal Factory No 1. Production gap from Jan 1921 to March 1921 after the factory was leased to the Government Known to have produced during 1920-21 the .303 cartridges in: CP Crompton Parkinson Ltd, Guiseley, Yorkshire, UNITED KINGDOM, although filling took place at Doncaster (see below). The huge munitions factory employed some 17,000 . 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. These should not be confused with the manufacturers identification code. R-P Remington Arms Co, Bridgeport, Conn., UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Ammunition production ceased completely at Woolwich in 1957, the last known production of .303 ammunition there being Mk 7 Ball in 1957. In 1910 the 174 grain pointed Mark VII bullet was adopted and the muzzle velocity was increased to 2440 feet per second. 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. 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. DC Dominion Cartridge Company which later became the Dominion Ammunition Division of Canadian Industries Ltd. This factory was part of the 1939- 45 war emergency expansion plans being situated near Crewe and is still in operation. 1877 New iron Railway Bridge replaced the old wooden Bridge over the High Street. Ammunition was made at Woolwich long before the adoption of the .303 cartridge in 1889. Known to have produced .303 cartridges 1914 1918 in: MAXIM Maxim Arms Co.,London, UNITED KINGDOM. 1987 Middlestone Moor Community Centre extended. 1875 Croxdale Colliery explosion 1 miner killed. 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. 1962 Pavilions added to Merrington Lane playing fields. More than 17,000 women worked at the factory, and Ms Scott said . Known to have produced .303 ball cartridges in 1924. The headstamp code G, denoting manufacturer, should not be confused with G as in GIV indicating a tracer cartridge. RA Raufoss Ammunisjonsfabrikker, Raufoss, NORWAY. 1996 Tony Blair, M.P., opens the new Page Bankroad bridge. Dedication of Venerable Bede Mission Church. U or SAM South African Mint, Pretoria, SOUTH AFRICA. Known to have produced .303 ball cartridges . The plaque was unveiled on the former Royal Ordnance Factory building, now an activity centre, by 100-year-old angel Muriel Scott. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded .303 cartridges: Ball, Mk 7 for 1914 1917 military contracts, Ball, Mk 7Z ( American WW2 Contract Pattern ). I worked at the Royal Ordnance factory at Spennymoor. c 1948. FNT Fabrica Nacional de Espana, Palencia, SPAIN. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded .303 cartridges in: y Toyokawa Naval Arsenal, JAPAN. 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. 5. Engineering - This type of factory produced bomb and shell casings and other metal-based components for all types of munitions. 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. Whitworth Hall severely damaged by fire. My husband worked in the mines with Bevin Boys. 1985 There were 12 Royal Ordnance Factories still in operation. 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. This producer is now known as Metallwerk Elisenhutte GmbH Nassau. 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. The last tracer round introduced into British service was the G Mark 8 round approved in 1945, the last armour piercing round was the W Mark 1Z introduced in 1945 and the last incendiary round was the B Mark 7 introduced in 1942. Cases were supplied by MJ, Ball Mk 7 (loaded into cases with BVI head stamp). 1972 Cambridge Theatre/Cinema destroyed by fire. Factory in operation 1828 1919. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded .303 cartridges in: 180 gr jacketed soft point sporting ammunition, 150 gr jacketed soft point sporting ammunition. He was in a parachute regiment when Italy capitulated. 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. 1920 Durham County Water Board provides water supply. 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 Leisure Pool opened cost 1.6m. We were also allowed inside a Halifax Bomber and according to a map we flew all over Darlington and Durham. Nobel Industries in turn was to become part of the new giant Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd when it was formed in 1926. 1912 Durham Road Higher Elementary School opened. The bullet to this round was designed to break up with a puff of smoke on impact with a target or the ground . 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. 1971 New sewage plant built at Tudhoe Mill. This web publication contains 152,494 pages of A or AI Artillerie Inrichtingen, Hembrug, NETHERLANDS. Yokosuka Naval Arsenal, JAPAN. 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. One evening, in December 1940, when I . 1984 Royal Ordnance had 19 factories and 19000 employees when vested for privatization. Town wins Northumbria in Bloom (Town Section). Skip to main content Hansard UK Parliament Hansard Post-War: many of the factories were closed, although some were reopened for the Korean war. Spennymoor, United Kingdom (1913-1945). 1858 Page Bank Colliery disaster 10 miners killed. 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. Birmingham Metal and Munitions had ceased manufacture of ammunition by 1920. Production of ammunition ceased in 1944. 1716 Subsequently the Royal Brass Foundry was established for the manufacture of brass ordnance. This factory manufactured cartridges for use by the British Army in India as well as the Indian Army. It was selected to produce small arms ammunition as part of the 1939-1945 war emergency expansion plans. Population 16,369. The one good road was maintained by tolls collected at turnpike gates. 1940 German H.E. 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. Nitro-cellulose propellant however was extensively used during the first and second world wars. Royal Arsenal Factory No 1. This is a list of Royal Ordnance Factories. As is to be expected, the moor itself offers little of historical interest but it is linked with the records of Kirk Merrington, Whitworth Old Park, Binchester, Byers Green and Tudhoe, all of which form a part of the early days of Spennymoor. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: Tracer G Mk 2,G Mk 3, G Mk 4, G Mk 5 and G Mk 6. 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. A nursery school was opened in the park to look after children while mothers did war work. Mon - Thurs 8:45 - 17:00, Fri 8:45 - 16:30 Royal Ordnance Factory. We were chosen because we had produced the most cases in a certain time and had been neither late or absent. 1890 Tudhoe Iron Works produced 50,000 tons of steel. In 1923 only four houses were built and there was still massive overcrowding in back to back properties. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy do not work properly without it enabled. Neither Britons nor Romans cultivated the moor, but on the site of Binchester, a village five miles to the south-west, the Romans built a camp around which grew up the settlement of Vinovium. 21. These squalid conditions were paralleled by the ever-uncertain economic conditions in industry. As a result, many hundreds of immigrant workers came here from the Midlands and more rows of dark little houses were erected. 1994 Town wins National Allotment Society Waterlow Trophy. 1984 Middlestone Moor Community Centre built. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: DC Defence Industries, Brownsburgh, Quebec, CANADA. 2001 Memorial to two Hurricane pilots killed in aircrash at Tudhoe in 1942 unveiled at York Hill Cemetery. UT = Utah Ordnance Plant - Salt Lake City, Utah. The Woolwich site apart from containing all the supportive facilities for the research, design, development, inspection and testing of ammunition also included an extensive range complex on the Plumpstead Marshes. CAC Colonial Ammunition Co., Auckland, NEW ZEALAND. By the end of 1963 over 1,120 sub-standard houses had been cleared and as many new Council houses built for letting whilst over 400 houses had been improved by grant aid. Spennymoor United AFC founded. 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. Royal Ordnance Factory, ROF, Blackburn was part of the Ministry of Defence organisations producing components for the manufacture of armaments and arms related equipment from the late 1930 until after WWII. Royal Small Arms Factory Enfield Factory No 2. Mr Hosie who was chauffeur for ROF at the time was our driver. Although coal-mining continued and the ironworks and engineering businesses were also providing employment, the start of the 20th century saw the start, too, of a long period of depression. 1906 Police Station opens. Powder was stored at Greenwich from an early date. 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. It initially had a small boxer type primer and was officially designated Cartridge, S.A., Ball, Magazine Rifle, Mark 1.C. 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. Cordite consisted of 58% Nitro-glycerine, 37% Nitro-cellulose and 5% Mineral Jelly and was normally pressed into cord form but tubular, tape, flaked and sliced cordite were also used. 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. My sister lived in Billingham which was badly bombed, the sky was full of barrage balloons to protect the ICI factory. The headstamp code B denoting the manufacturer should not be confused with B as in BVIIZ which indicates incendiary ammunition. ROF Queniborough; Filling Factory No. The BBC is not responsible for the content of any external sites The Manor of Merrington belonged successively to the priors, monks and dean and chapter of Durham Cathedral. 1898 North Eastern Hotel destroyed by fire. ROF Blackburn. ROF Bishopton; Explosive ROF (3 factories). 1986 Tudhoe Community Centre built. Known to have manufactured Black powder Ball Mk 2 .303 cartridges from 1891 1896. Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. Kenmirs Furniture Factory and the old Arcadia Cinema were both destroyed by fire. It was changed to a limited company in 1884 as G. Kynoch & Co Ltd and by then was manufacturing metallic ammunition. 1867 The Black Horse public house built in Tudhoe. This cartridge is interchangeable with the .303 British cartridge. Wesleyan Church opened. 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 . Royal Navy Destroyer H.M.S. Lost in the Blackout. In 1887, when they were renamed the Royal Ordnance Factories, control passed to the financial secretary's Civil Department, from which in 1899 they returned to the . DA Dominion Arsenal, Montreal, CANADA. 1945 World War II ended. On nitro-cellulose loaded .303 Mk 7z Ball cartridges made by FNM of Moscavide, PORTUGAL. R..W Rudge Whitworth Ltd., Tyseley, UNITED KINGDOM. Low Spennymoor houses cleared. In 1930 the coke ovens which remained on the ironworks site were only working intermittently. This company was formed in 1890 at Kings Norton, it owned its own rolling mills and had a loading plant at Abbey wood in Kent. asked the Minister of War Transport (1) whether he will provide omnibus facilities to enable girls to travel from Ferryhill and Merrington to the Royal Ordnance factory at Spennymoor in time to commence work at 7.30 a.m., and an omnibus service back to Ferryhill at 5 p.m.; TW = Twin Cities Ordnance Plant - Minneapolis, Minnesota. They used the MF monogram May 1926 to 1945 and the AF monogram from January 1924 to February 1925. Known to have produced .303 cartridges during the period 1940 1944 in: C-P Crompton Parkinson Ltd, Doncaster, Yorkshire, UNITED KINGDOM. The new St. Charles School opened. 1895 First meeting of Urban District Council. This round, as originally adopted, consisted of a 215 grain, round nosed, cupro nickel jacketed bullet in front of 71.5 grains of RFG2 Blackpowder. This is an insight into the Aycliffe Royal Ordnance Factory, ROF 59, (1941-1945) and the 'Aycliffe Angels'. people who designed and built them. Gateshead refugees arrived in Spennymoor. G18F1 or C18F1 Government Cartridge Factory No 1, Blackheath, Staffs., UNITED KINGDOM. ROF Blackpool; SAA Factory. Troubled Years Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: (The metal components for these rounds were manufactured by MH and MJ at Hendon). The ROF Regiment were stationed in Spennymoor factory. We were shown how the airmen assembled our bullets and taken to try the Frainer Bomber (named the Lincoln Frainer). 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. Object details Category Weapons and ammunition Related period Second World War (production), Second World War (association) Creator Royal Ordnance Factory Spennymoor (GB & Durham) Production date List of sites of Royal Ordnance Factories. By 1860, the factory was producing more than 90,000 rifles, or 1,744 a week. I worked at the Royal Ordnance factory (ROF) at Spennymoor. 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. The Gordon Street Factory used the monogram MF2 for a short time during 1940. 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. ROF Blackburn. The later Mark 6 and 7 incendiary rounds could also be used in this role if required. The arms factory was closed in 1987. 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. text of this web site is available under the Creative Later, effective tracer and incendiary composition operations were also carried out at Witton. Known to have produced 7.7 x 56R ball cartridges, which are interchangeable with the .303 cartridge post 1961. Incendiary Buckingham (VII.B), B Mk 1, B Mk 2Z, B Mk 4,B Mk 4. 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. In 1938 the .303 Mark VIIIZ round was approved to obtain greater effective range from the Vickers Medium Machine Gun. When U used with a diamond this indicates manufacture in a subsidiary factory at Kimberley. This company was already in existence but unconnected with ammunition manufacture when the 1939 1945 war broke out. They had a goat mascot named Monty who ate the vegetables which the lads were growing, "Dig For Victory". T = Tikkakoski Arsenal - Finland. 1939 Outbreak of World War II. Its largest division was ammunition followed by tanks and fighting vehicles, which had factories at Leeds and Nottingham[8]. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded .303 Ball cartridges, VIS Atelier de Chargement de Vincennes, FRANCE. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: Gallery Practice Mk 1 ( Black powder Canada ), Gallery Practice Mk 1 ( Smokeless Canada ). 299.06 KB. VE Cartoucherie de Valence, FRANCE. Also manufactured Mk VI Dummy cartridges, SBR Sellier & Bellot, Riga, LATVIA. 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. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded .303 Ball cartridges 1923. 1970 Moor Grange sheltered accommodation completed. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: PPU or nny Prvi Partizan, Titovo Uzice, YUGOSLAVIA. In 1935 the .303 O Mark 1 Observing round was introduced for use in machine guns. Royal Ordnance Factories were for explosives manufacture, filling of munitions and engineering. In addition there was a filling area not far away in the vicinity of Abbey Wood. When operational, the Bishopton site was the Royal Ordnance's primary manufacturer of propellants for gun and rocket systems and around 75% of the . Steve 11-03-2014, 06:29 PM #3 lithoman 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. This fortress must have been of great strength, for it stood on a height above the River Wear; many coins, urns, altars and pieces of Roman pottery have been found, as well as the remains of a hypocaust of the heating system. During WW1 Eley produced in excess of 209 Million .303 Mk 7 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. This page was last edited on 27 May 2022, at 11:53. 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