FC Federal Cartridge Co, Anoka, Minn., UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 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. 1945 World War II ended. This round had a nitro-cellulose powder charge with a 175 grain boat tailed, streamline, jacketed bullet having a muzzle velocity of 2550 feet per second. The headstamp code G, denoting manufacturer, should not be confused with G as in GIV indicating a tracer cartridge. 1928 Spennymoor Golf Club opened at North Close. In 1963 too there came the first private building developments to take place since back in the days of the 19th century colliery owners. MW Small Arms Ammunition Factory No 6, Welchpool, AUSTRALIA. This was confirmed by experience gained in the Chitral and Tirah expeditions of 1897/98 on the North West Frontier of India where the round nose ball round compared poorly against the .303 inch Dum Dum rounds specially issued in 1897. 8). Solid Case, .303inch. More than 17,000 women worked at the factory, and Ms Scott said . 1921 Royal Ordnance took over the National Filling Factories. 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 began production of .303 ammunition in 1941 initially with the headstamp code of two arrows replacing these in 1942 with the code SR. Electric lighting for Spennymoor. 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. 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. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: G, GB or GBF Greenwood and Batley, Leeds, UNITED KINGDOM. 1916 Town Hall built at a cost of 18,000. I worked at the Royal Ordnance factory at Spennymoor. Known to have produced .303 ball cartridges in 1924. In addition there was a filling area not far away in the vicinity of Abbey Wood. 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 . This became the Royal Small Arms Factory (Birmingham). We were chosen because we had produced the most cases in a certain time and had been neither late or absent. Set up as part of the 1939-45 war emergency expansion plans. .303 cartridges known to have been produced with the Blackpole headstamped cases from 1941 to 1945 are: Cartridge Rifle Grenade, Ballistite H Mk 1Z. In 1918 this factory had the capacity to produce about 5.4 million rounds per month. 1990 Town Council wins Waterlow Trophy for fourth year. 1877 New iron Railway Bridge replaced the old wooden Bridge over the High Street. Nothing could well exceed the nuisance attendant on the disposal of excrement and refuse in Spennymoor. Lost in the Blackout. 1759 Government purchase of the privately-owned gunpowder mill at Faversham and the establishment there of the Royal Powder Mill. 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). Tudhoe football field created. 1936 Parishes of Byers green, Middlestone Moor, Kirk Merrington and part of Hett added to the town. Maintained by Sapere Software. Aycliffe filled the cases which we produced and this was very dangerous work. They had a goat mascot named Monty who ate the vegetables which the lads were growing, "Dig For Victory". Quite a few of these men must have been miners, as at that time coale pits were being worked at Whitworth, Byers Green and Fernhill. T = Tikkakoski Arsenal - Finland. 1984 Middlestone Moor Community Centre built. In WWII Explosives factories were established at[9]: WWII: 20 Filling factories were planned but only 16 were built including[11] [12]: WWII: Other Filling factories were devoted to Small Arms Ammunition: Grace's Guide web site design is Copyright 2021 by Grace's Guide Ltd. One evening, in December 1940, when I . 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. When he was finally attacked and overcome, the church roof was destroyed but the building remained as one of most interesting Norman churches in the county until 1850 when it was almost wholly rebuilt although retaining the form of its predecessor. The huge munitions factory employed some 17,000 . Byers Green and Kirk Merrington redeveloped. 1954 Middlestone Moor housing estate commenced. 1942 1942 1943 1944 Tikkakoski Arsenal - Finland Tikkakoski was the first private arms manufacturer in Finland. The manufacturing departments, namely the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich, the Royal Gunpowder Factory at Waltham Abbey and the Royal Small Arms Factory (Enfield), were transferred to the War Office. This factory manufactured cartridges for use by the British Army in India as well as the Indian Army. Known to have produced .303 ball cartridges, A.VIS Atelier de Fabrication de Vincinnes, FRANCE. 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. Rough houses were built for the pit workers houses with two rooms and a loft, more like piggeries than human habitation according to Dodd. There has been a film made about these men "The guinea pigs". WCC Western Cartridge Co., East Alton, Ill., UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 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. 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 . The Arsenal dates from 1670 and has manufactured many different items of warlike stores for the armed forces. SIP - Royal Ordnance Pension Scheme - 2022. As a result, many hundreds of immigrant workers came here from the Midlands and more rows of dark little houses were erected. 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 ). 13 Oct 2022 - Notice to Royal Ordnance Pension Scheme ("The Scheme") Members. 8; . The run-down of the mining industry, however, was nevertheless a serious blow. Wolsey adopted by people of Spennymoor. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: F Small Arms Ammunition Factory, Footscray, AUSTRALIA. people who designed and built them. Royal Powder Mill Factory No 31. The only portion of the common that was left was a small plot reserved for the use of a spring of water. 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. Royal Powder Mill Factory No 31. Spennymoor, 1985 There were 12 Royal Ordnance Factories still in operation. New Railway station built at Spennymoor. 1912 Durham Road Higher Elementary School opened. Post-War: many of the factories were closed, although some were reopened for the Korean war. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded .303 cartridges in: AE Arsenal do Ejercito, Lisbon, PORTUGAL. By Barry W. Gracia, An extensive website on the Vickers machine gun, Harrington Aviation Museum DropZone Newsletter, Identification Manuals Nos 1, 2, 3, and 4 on the .303 British Service Cartridge. This factory was set up as part of the 1939-45 war emergency expansion plan. When U used with a diamond this indicates manufacture in a subsidiary factory at Kimberley. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: Blank, Nitro-cellulose L Canadian Mk 1 (1955 & 1956). Population 22,000. 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. We were then taken to the canteen for lunch, which consisted of battered spam and chips. Johnson, who made a fortune out of it. 1899 Control of the factories was returned to the Ordnance Department. 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. Penny Rate Product 303. The cases were made by BSA for Maxim machine guns in the 1890s. My husband worked in the mines with Bevin Boys. 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. BE or BE Royal Ordnance Factory, Blackpole, Worcester, UNITED KINGDOM. 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]. 1971 New sewage plant built at Tudhoe Mill. 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. Nevertheless, the whole of this countryside was made desolate by Williams soldiers, and for many years it was the haunt of outlaws and wild animals. Its head office is at Glascoed. These rounds were extensively developed over the years and saw several Mark numbers. Nitro-cellulose filled .303 American WW1 Contract Pattern cartridges were produced during the period 1914 1917 as. .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 This web publication contains 147,919 pages of V.E.Day. Incendiary bombs burn down Tudhoe Colliery Co-op. Up to 1800 the moor remained largely barren and the few roads across it were dangerous. 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. 1871 Tower Brewery built at Tudhoe Grange. C.E. .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 It became Kynoch Ltd in 1897. The Gordon Street Factory used the monogram MF2 for a short time during 1940. BPD Bombrini, Parodi et Delfino, Rome ITALY. 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. It stands above the Wear Valley approximately seven miles south of Durham. This factory made and marked cases but filling was carried out at the Royal Ordnance Factory Swynnerton, Staffs. Population 16,369. Colour coding appears in several forms on small arms ammunition. HN Royal Ordnance Factory, Hirwaun, South Wales, UNITED KINGDOM. 102.56 KB. Whitworth Park Golf Club (9 holes) opens. This change was agreed in August 1915 and thus these sites became nominally part of the National Factory programme. 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]. MF or AF Small Arms Ammunition Factory No 1, Footscray, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA. Spennymoor Town Council, I remember Tudhoe Colliery being bombed. 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. DWM Deutsche Waffen Und Munitionsfabrik, Karlsruhe, GERMANY. SR = Royal Ordnance Factory - Spennymoor, United Kingdom. 1953 St Pauls Church damaged by fire. ROF Blackburn. Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. The arms factory was closed in 1987. 1939 Outbreak of World War II. Royal Arsenal Factory No 1. Penny Rate Product 23,000. 1995 H.M. Queen Elizabeth II visited the Thorn Lighting factory at Spennymoor. My sister lived in Billingham which was badly bombed, the sky was full of barrage balloons to protect the ICI factory. 1949 Bungalows built at Middlestone Moor. Woolwich Arsenal, of which the Royal Laboratory was only a part, is situated in South East London on the River Thames. 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. Royal Powder Mill Factory No 31. 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). Cartridges known to have been manufactured in: MEN Maschinenfabrik Elisenhutte, Nassau, WEST GERMANY. SR = Royal Ordnance Factory - Spennymoor, United Kingdom. Used the monogram 1942 to 1943. Town wins Northumbria in Bloom (Town Section). Production of ammunition ceased in 1944. Royal Navy Destroyer H.M.S. DI Defence Industries, Verdun, CANADA. The town was founded over 160 years ago. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded Imperial Japanese Navy Year Type 92 Machine Gun ammunition which is interchangeable with the .303 cartridge in: ZV Zbrojovka Brno, Brno, CZECHOSLOVAKIA. ROF Bishopton; Explosive ROF (3 factories). The Badcock Armoury closed. This factory was built in 1916 and was administered on behalf of the Government by the Birmingham Metal and Munitions Co. .303 cartridge production started in early 1918 and continued until late 1918 when the factory ceased production altogether. Incendiary B Mk 3, B Mk 4Z*, B Mk 6, B Mk 6Z. Belisha Beacons located in Spennymoor High Street. Wesleyan Church opened. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: Tracer G Mk 2 (Australian Pattern) (projectiles were filled by MS at Salisbury). Although schemes were inaugurated to relieve the gloom nothing could make up for the lack of steady employment. Download. In 1910 the 174 grain pointed Mark VII bullet was adopted and the muzzle velocity was increased to 2440 feet per second. 1887 Renamed the Royal Ordnance Factories, control passed to the financial secretary's Civil Department. 1811 The Royal Small Arms Factory site at Enfield was purchased. do not work properly without it enabled. 1695 Gunpowder was also stored at Upnor Castle (later the Upnor Armaments Supply Depot) from at least as early as 1695. Engineering - This type of factory produced bomb and shell casings and other metal-based components for all types of munitions. Servicesheld in Town Hall. Royal Ordnance Factories were for explosives manufacture, filling of munitions and engineering. 1920 Durham County Water Board provides water supply. 1966 Bus Station and Parkwood Precinct opened. 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 7.7 x 56R ball cartridges which are interchangeable with the .303 cartridge. Martha Liddle, J.P., was the first person from Spennymoor to be awarded the M.B.E. The Captain without thinking shouted 'shoot the bugger' and this is what the lads did and were in serious trouble. FN Fabrique National dArmes de Guerre, Herstal, BELGIUM. Cartridge cases were being produced by late 1940 but the ball bullets were still being imported into the factory in 1941. 581.38 KB. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded 7.7 x 56R ball ammunition which is interchangeable with the .303 cartridges. Most of the content on this site is created by our users, who are members of the Known to have manufactured .303 cartridges in: K4 Imperial Chemical Industries Kynoch factory at Yeading, Hayes, Middlesex, UNITED KINGDOM. KN Kings Norton Metal Co., Birmingham, UNITED KINGDOM. Spennymoor, and the surrounding settlements, have a long and varied history. 1897 Kenmirs furniture factory opens in Silver Street. Dunkirk survivors housed in halls and schools. DAC Dominion Arsenal, Quebec, CANADA. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded .303 cartridges: Ball, Mk 7 for 1914 1917 military contracts, Ball, Mk 7Z ( American WW2 Contract Pattern ). 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. The later Mark 6 and 7 incendiary rounds could also be used in this role if required. Known to have produced .303 cartridges 1941 1945 in: RL Royal Laboratory, Woolwich Arsenal, Kent, UNITED KINGDOM. Birmingham Metal and Munitions had ceased manufacture of ammunition by 1920. Royal Small Arms Factory Factory No 2. This distinction was abandoned in May 1920 and thereafter all ball rounds had the purple annulus. 11. 1984 Royal Armament Research and Development Establishment's Waltham Abbey south site became part of Royal Ordnance. those of the BBC. Troubled Years 1934 Prince of Wales visits the Town for a second time. 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. Even before the big coal strike of 1926 the collieries had begun to close. 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. 39 and 40. . Mr Hosie who was chauffeur for ROF at the time was our driver. King Street Council School built. By 1860, the factory was producing more than 90,000 rifles, or 1,744 a week. manufacturing in Britain. The Dene is landscaped. Nitro-cellulose was first used as a propellant in the .303 cartridge during 1894 although it was not officially approved for service until 1916. Later, effective tracer and incendiary composition operations were also carried out at Witton. Next we went with the WAAFs to see how they packed parachutes for the boys. Single lineRailway Bridge built over High Street. MJ Small Arms Ammunition Factory No 4, Hendon, AUSTRALIA. 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. Known to have produced .303 cartridges 1914 1918 in: MAXIM Maxim Arms Co.,London, UNITED KINGDOM. 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. 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. 1940 1949. Ammunition was made at Woolwich long before the adoption of the .303 cartridge in 1889. 1942 1942 1943 1944 Tikkakoski Arsenal - Finland Tikkakoski was the first private arms manufacturer in Finland. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: MJB Incendiary Annexe to MJ Hendon, AUSTRALIA. Known to have produced .303 ball cartridges during 1988. The land on which Spennymoor now stands was once a vast expanse of moorland covered with thorn and whin bushes (Spenny Moor). 21. List of sites of Royal Ordnance Factories. This factory was part of the 1939- 45 war emergency expansion plans being situated near Crewe and is still in operation. In 1938 the .303 Mark VIIIZ round was approved to obtain greater effective range from the Vickers Medium Machine Gun. 1918 World War l ended in victory for the Allies. manufacturing in Britain. After May 1918 the CAC monogram was used with two arrows . E or EB Eley Brothers, Edmonton, London, UNITED KINGDOM. 1931 Pilgrim Trust founds the Settlement. Produced .303 Mk 7 ball ammunition in cases believed to be made by Eley. 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. Policy. 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. Three closed in 1924 and the strike saw another two fail. High Street, however, William allowed some of the previous owners to retain their lands, and one of these was Whittleworth now Whitworth whose first known proprietor was Thomas de Acle who held it in 1183. 1931 Road Tolls ceased at Page Bank Bridge. 2002 Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee, Parade of Golden Roses, Jubilee Park. The Spennymoor ammunition was filled at the Royal Ordnance Factory, Aycliffe, Durham. 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