Penny Rate Product 239. 1996 Tony Blair, M.P., opens the new Page Bankroad bridge. 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. The Arsenal dates from 1670 and has manufactured many different items of warlike stores for the armed forces. Known to have produced .303 ball cartridges, A.VIS Atelier de Fabrication de Vincinnes, FRANCE. Known to have manufactured .303 cartridges in: MG / MF2 Small Arms Ammunition Factory No 2, Gordon Street, Footscray, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA. In 1923 only four houses were built and there was still massive overcrowding in back to back properties. 1985 Largest European manufacturer of ammunition, 1986 Royal Ordnance was bought by British Aerospace (BAe). In 1918 this factory was capable of producing at the rate of about 10 million rounds per month. Spennymoor, 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. POF Pakistan Ordnance Factory, Rawalpindi, PAKISTAN. When we arrived at Goosepool Mr Hosie was not allowed to enter the airport as it was strictly guarded. 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. Spennymoor Leisure Pool opened cost 1.6m. Nitro-cellulose was first used as a propellant in the .303 cartridge during 1894 although it was not officially approved for service until 1916. They are known to have manufactured .303 cartridges in: GA Grenfell and Accles Ltd, Perry Barr, Birmingham, UNITED KINGDOM. IMPERIAL Canadian Industries Ltd, Montreal, CANADA and Plattsburg, NY, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. The name Binchester is the usual Saxon corruption or adaptation of the Roman site name. 1818 The work of the Lewisham establishment was transferred to Enfield. 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. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded .303 Ball Mk 7 cartridges during the period 1914 1918. On explosive anti Zeplin cartridges. 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. 2003 Spennymoor Cemetery Memorial Garden officially opened. 1985 There were 12 Royal Ordnance Factories still in operation. Manufactured .303 cartridges with this headstamp March 1925 to April 1926. 8 ROF Birtley. A new 3-bedroom semi cost 3,375 to buy on private housing estate. 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. Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded .303 (identified on headstamp as 7.70) cartridges during 1918 in: Also known to have produced ball rounds in the 1920s and 30s, A VE Atelier de Construction de Valence, FRANCE. On British military contracts 1940-45 180 & 215 gr jacketed soft point sporting ammunition. Royal Ordnance Factory. 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. Population 22,000. Skip to main content Hansard UK Parliament Hansard 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. . 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. By 1860, the factory was producing more than 90,000 rifles, or 1,744 a week. 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. 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. 1916 Town Hall built at a cost of 18,000. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded .303 cartridges in: 180 gr jacketed soft point sporting ammunition, 150 gr jacketed soft point sporting ammunition. those of the BBC. UT = Utah Ordnance Plant - Salt Lake City, Utah. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: Armour Piercing W Mk 1 and W Mk 1 Special. Cartridges known to have been manufactured in: MEN Maschinenfabrik Elisenhutte, Nassau, WEST GERMANY. The ROF Regiment were stationed in Spennymoor factory under the leadership of Captain Calderbank. 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. Colour coding appears in several forms on small arms ammunition. 22. It became G. Kynoch & Co Ltd in 1884 and by then was manufacturing metallic ammunition. The one good road was maintained by tolls collected at turnpike gates. ROF Steeton; SAA Factory No. I was given a badge for helping to raise money for the war effort. SR = Royal Ordnance Factory - Spennymoor, United Kingdom. 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. 2002 Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee, Parade of Golden Roses, Jubilee Park. RTS Richard Threlfall and Sons, UNITED KINGDOM. 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. The Rise of Industry In 1918 this factory had the capacity to produce about 5.4 million rounds per month. 1986 Tudhoe Community Centre built. The first coal from Merrington Colliery was brought up in 1841; a pit with a chequered career which only prospered under the partnership of L.M Reay and R.S. DI Defence Industries, Verdun, CANADA. Other methods include colouring of part or the whole of the cartridge case. Both firms are believed to have manufactured .303 Blackpowder Mk 2 Ball Cartridges, L-E or U Remington UMC, Bridgeport, Conn., UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. The coal mining at Whitworth and a small foundry at Merrington Lane were the earliest industries, but in 1853 the Weardale Iron and Coal Company opened its great ironworks at Tudhoe. information and 237,145 images on early companies, their products and the This factory was part of the 1939-45 war emergency expansion plan. 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. There is, however, space for expansion and land is available on the Green Lane Industrial Estate. In the event that you consider anything on this page to be in breach of the site's House Rules, please click here. Nobel Industries in turn was to become part of the new giant Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd when it was formed in 1926. As a general rule the absence of a colour coding indicates a standard ball cartridge. BPD Bombrini, Parodi et Delfino, Rome ITALY. The assets of the company were taken over in 1918 by Explosives Trades Ltd which soon after was renamed Nobel Industries, this new organisation having been founded to amalgamate most of the explosives and ammunition interests of the many separate companies operating in Britain at that time. 1869 Shaft sunk at Tudhoe Grange Colliery. 1811 The Royal Small Arms Factory site at Enfield was purchased. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: NORMA or norma Norma Projectilfabrik, Amotfors, SWEDEN. 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 . There was a glazeboard wad on top of the charge to protect the base of the bullet. 1969 Courtaulds Ltd. open spinning factory at Green Lane. Town Hall refurbished. 1931 Road Tolls ceased at Page Bank Bridge. Mon - Thurs 8:45 - 17:00, Fri 8:45 - 16:30 Dedication of Venerable Bede Mission Church. 1560 The Gunpowder Mills at Waltham Abbey were opened.[1]. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: PPU or nny Prvi Partizan, Titovo Uzice, YUGOSLAVIA. Population declines to 15,440.First Council houses erected on racecourse site. 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. During the battle, the prior from Durham and his monks knelt on a little hillock in the Shaw Wood and prayed for an English victory while holding aloft, impaled on a spear, the Holy Corporax Cloth from the Cathedral. This web publication contains 152,494 pages of In 1910 the 174 grain pointed Mark VII bullet was adopted and the muzzle velocity was increased to 2440 feet per second. .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 Known to have manufactured nitro-cellulose loaded .303 cartridges in: Ball, L1A1 to British Government contract(1982-85). 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]. RNRA Rhodesia National Rifle Association. Jubilee Park new Bowling Green created. Royal Ordnance Factory, Spennymoor, Durham, UK. Spennymoor Town Council, Royal Arsenal Factory No 1. In 1874 the then Local Government Board had reported: 2000 Millennium Mining Memorial unveiled in Victoria Jubilee Park. Post-WWI Returned to lower production levels. 1988 Spennymoor Cricket Club Ground purchased. 01388 815276 El Alamein. 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. 1871 Tower Brewery built at Tudhoe Grange. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: Gallery Practice Mk 1 ( Black powder Canada ), Gallery Practice Mk 1 ( Smokeless Canada ). 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. The ROF Regiment were stationed in Spennymoor factory. I worked at the Royal Ordnance factory at Spennymoor. We were then introduced to a number of Canadian boys. There has been a film made about these men "The guinea pigs". 1695 Gunpowder was also stored at Upnor Castle (later the Upnor Armaments Supply Depot) from at least as early as 1695. These appalling conditions continued into the 20th century and even by 1920 less than 10% of the town houses had water closets. .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 After May 1918 the CAC monogram was used with two arrows . In addition to these plants the original cap production was maintained at Witton. Known to have produced .303 ball cartridges c 1937, SFM Societe Francaise des Munitions, Issy les Moulineaux, FRANCE. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: Ball, Mks 7 and 8Z. 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. Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and Incendiary Buckingham (VII.B), B Mk 1, B Mk 2Z, B Mk 4,B Mk 4. 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. WRA = Winchester Repeating Arms - New Haven, Connecticut. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in 1942 only. 1968 Bessemer Park Housing commenced (1,009 houses). Maintained by Sapere Software. 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. 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]. Although schemes were inaugurated to relieve the gloom nothing could make up for the lack of steady employment. We were then taken to the canteen for lunch, which consisted of battered spam and chips. 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. 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. 1953 St Pauls Church damaged by fire. Known to have manufactured .303 cartridges in: GKB or K George Kynoch, Birmingham, UNITED KINGDOM. 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. 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. 1867 The Black Horse public house built in Tudhoe. 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. Cartridge cases were being produced by late 1940 but the ball bullets were still being imported into the factory in 1941. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: Tracer G Mk 2 (Australian Pattern) (projectiles were filled by MS at Salisbury). 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. Produced .303 Mk 7 ball ammunition in cases believed to be made by Eley. 299.06 KB. Commonly known locally as the "Fuse" or "Fuze", because the majority of components in production related to the fuse mechanisms used on most explosive devices at the time, bombs. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded 7.7 x 56 M917 ball ammunition, which is interchangeable with the .303 cartridge, AF Small Arms Factory, Footscray, AUSTRALIA. JAPAN is known to have manufactured nitro-cellulose loaded Imperial Japanese Army Year Type 89 Machine Gun ammunition, which is interchangeable with the .303 cartridge, without any headstamp codes in: JAPAN is also known to have manufactured nitro-cellulose Imperial Japanese Navy Year Type 92 Machine Gun ammunition, which is interchangeable with the .303 cartridge, at their Aichi Naval Arsenal, Toyokawa Naval Arsenal and Yokosuka Naval Arsenal in the following configurations, SPAIN manufactured .303 ammunition and used it on a limited scale during and after the Civil War of 1936 39. Spennymoor, United Kingdom (1913-1945). 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 Ordnance Factories were for explosives manufacture, filling of munitions and engineering. 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. 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. Known to have produced 7.7 x 56R ball cartridges, which are interchangeable with the .303 cartridge. 1987 Middlestone Moor Community Centre extended. Temple, Collectors Cartridge Catalogue No 29 by Conjay Arms Company Ltd, Whitneys Heritage, A Study of Cartridges Manufactured by The Colonial Ammunition Company in New Zealand. 8). WCC Western Cartridge Co., East Alton, Ill., UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 2. During the period ending with the 1914-18 war Kynoch, which by then was the largest of the British commercial ammunition manufacturers, owned rolling mills at Witton; at Lodge Road, Birmingham and at Eyre Street, Birmingham. 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. New Pavilions constructed at Jubilee Park. 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. 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. With few exceptions, the housing situation was little better than when Dodd had described the houses as more like piggeries. ROF Fazakerley was a Royal Ordnance Factory rifle manufacturing plant in Fazakerley, Liverpool, which manufactured small arms such as the Sten and Sterling [1] [2] [3] submachine guns and Lee-Enfield rifle during and after World War II . Childrens play areas upgraded by the provision of safety surfacing at eight sites. Aycliffe filled the cases which we produced and this was very dangerous work. We were shown how the airmen assembled our bullets and taken to try the Frainer Bomber (named the Lincoln Frainer). 1939 Outbreak of World War II. The town of Spennymoor, and the villages of Byers Green, Kirk Merrington and Tudhoe, are in the North East of England, situated on high land above the south side of the Wear Valley between the City of Durham and Bishop Auckland. 1895 First meeting of Urban District Council. 1906 Birmingham Small Arms Co took over the Royal Small Arms Factory at Sparkbrook[5]. 1951 Population 19,740. 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