Archive List > United Kingdom > Wearside and County Durham, Submitted by Christine Rome at Spennymoor Library on behalf of Elizabeth Hodgson (ne Monaghan). New Pavilions constructed at Jubilee Park. It began production of .303 Ammunition in 1941 initially with the headstamp code of two arrows replacing these in 1942 with the code SR. 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. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: Ball, Mks 7 and 8Z. Population 22,000. I was an Air Raid Warden which meant seeing my workmates into the air raid shelter safely and staying with them until the air raid was over after the all clear siren. Even by 1938 the situation had improved little. 01388 815276 Monogram in use 1941 1945. Policy. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: MS Explosives Factory, Salisbury, AUSTRALIA. High Street, Post-WWI Returned to lower production levels. 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. Should the reader be aware of any omissions in this manufacturers listing then the author would be very pleased to hear from them. DA Dominion Arsenal, Montreal, CANADA. Dunkirk survivors housed in halls and schools. 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 . 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. 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. 1897 Kenmirs furniture factory opens in Silver Street. 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. 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. R-P Remington Arms Co, Bridgeport, Conn., UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. These rounds were extensively developed over the years and saw several Mark numbers. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: Armour Piercing W Mk 1 and W Mk 1 Special. The propellant interests being concentrated mainly at Ardeer within the Nobel Division of ICI. 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. The Cleveland iron trade, which used the coal and coke produced at Spennymoor, was depressed. 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. PMP Pretoria Metal Pressings (Pty) Ltd., Pretoria, SOUTH AFRICA. A Pretoria West Metal Pressings Pty., Pretoria, SOUTH AFRICA. Known to have produced .303 ball cartridges in 1924. Post-War: many of the factories were closed, although some were reopened for the Korean war. This was very interesting there of course was a special way of doing this that it opened properly when required. All these villages had common rights on the moor but, as it became denuded by increasing flocks, some of the local people were induced to relinquish their rights and so, gradually, the common became the property of just one owner Merrington Priory. He was in a parachute regiment when Italy capitulated. Known to have manufactured .303 cartridges in: MH Small Arms Ammunition Factory No 3, Hendon, AUSTRALIA. 1880 Tudhoe Iron Works produced 17,000 tons of iron and 2,000 tons of steel. The later Mark 6 and 7 incendiary rounds could also be used in this role if required. Penny Rate Product 23,000. RA Raufoss Ammunisjonsfabrikker, Raufoss, NORWAY. Known to have produced .303 ball cartridges. There was a glazeboard wad on top of the charge to protect the base of the bullet. This factory made and marked cases but filling was carried out at the Royal Ordnance Factory Swynnerton, Staffs. Servicesheld in Town Hall. .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 C.E. 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. people who designed and built them. 1934 Prince of Wales visits the Town for a second time. 2001 Memorial to two Hurricane pilots killed in aircrash at Tudhoe in 1942 unveiled at York Hill Cemetery. We sometimes danced and had concerts given by our work mates. This Military Arsenal became Nederland Wapen & Munitiefabrikde Kruithoorn NV,s Hertogenbosch and later became Eurometaal. Royal Ordnance Factory. The Spennymoor ammunition was then filled at ROF Aycliffe. 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. 8 ROF Beech Hill, Wigan ROF Birtley. Known to have produced .303 ball cartridges c 1937, SFM Societe Francaise des Munitions, Issy les Moulineaux, FRANCE. Identification Manuals Nos 1, 2, 3, and 4 on the .303 British Service Cartridge by B.A. Cost 87,000. MJ Small Arms Ammunition Factory No 4, Hendon, AUSTRALIA. Royal Arsenal Factory No 1. CAC Colonial Ammunition Co., Auckland, NEW ZEALAND. After the war in 1918 Kynoch Ltd, in common with most other British small arms ammunition manufacturers, was merged into Explosives Trades Ltd, later to become Nobel Industries. The MG monogram was changed to MF in 1949 which was used until 1962. Find out how you can use this. 1953 St Pauls Church damaged by fire. ROF Bishopton; Explosive ROF (3 factories). 1869 Shaft sunk at Tudhoe Grange Colliery. 1763 The Greenwich magazine was moved to Purfleet. 1989 Byers Green Village Hall extended and refurbished. When U used with a diamond this indicates manufacture in a subsidiary factory at Kimberley. 1985 Largest European manufacturer of ammunition, 1986 Royal Ordnance was bought by British Aerospace (BAe). 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 . 1962 Pavilions added to Merrington Lane playing fields. 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. 1954 Middlestone Moor housing estate commenced. Cartridge cases were being produced by late 1940 but the ball bullets were still being imported into the factory in 1941. 1877 New iron Railway Bridge replaced the old wooden Bridge over the High Street. 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. KN Kings Norton Metal Co., Birmingham, UNITED KINGDOM. 1942 1942 1943 1944 Tikkakoski Arsenal - Finland Tikkakoski was the first private arms manufacturer in Finland. MKEMakina ve Kimya Endustrisi, Kuruma, TURKEY. info@spennymoor-tc.gov.uk DAL or LAC Dominion Arsenal, Lindsay, Ontario, CANADA. TW = Twin Cities Ordnance Plant - Minneapolis, Minnesota. Royal Ordnance Factory, Spennymoor, Durham, UK. As a result, many hundreds of immigrant workers came here from the Midlands and more rows of dark little houses were erected. Lost in the Blackout. 1970 Moor Grange sheltered accommodation completed. Known to have produced .303 cartridges 1914 1918 in: MAXIM Maxim Arms Co.,London, UNITED KINGDOM. referenced. Early site history and production [ edit] First World War [ edit] A fourth royal factory, the Royal Aircraft Factory at Farnborough was also taken over by the Ministry in 1916. 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. K5 Imperial Chemical Industries Kynoch factory at Kidderminster, Worcestershire., UNITED KINGDOM. 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. I remember lads coming home from Dunkirk, I helped WRVS to feed and sew stripes on their clothes. 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. 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. 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. 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 ). 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. Spennymoor United AFC founded. Powder was stored at Greenwich from an early date. D Dominion Cartridge Co., Brownsberg, Quebec, CANADA. 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. DC Dominion Cartridge Company which later became the Dominion Ammunition Division of Canadian Industries Ltd. UT = Utah Ordnance Plant - Salt Lake City, Utah. Nitro-cellulose propellant however was extensively used during the first and second world wars. manufacturing in Britain. 1934 to 1939 Many new Royal Ordnance Factories were built to enhance the capacity of the Royal Arsenal, Royal Gunpowder Factory and the Royal Small Arms Factory which, being close to London, were susceptible to being bombed[6]. Royal Small Arms Factory Factory No 2. It was really pitiful, these lads had had a terrible time. Engineering - This type of factory produced bomb and shell casings and other metal-based components for all types of munitions. This factory was also set up as part of the 1939-45 war emergency expansion plans. A A On cartridges c 1917 indicated a Pomeroy explosive incendiary Mk 2 bullet, C on early pre 1912 cartridges denoted a Cordite propellant charge, K On cartridges c 1918 indicated a Brock explosive incendiary bullet, Z indicated a nitro-cellulose propellant charge in the cartridge. 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. 1891 Whitworth Hall restored after fire of 1877. G18F1 or C18F1 Government Cartridge Factory No 1, Blackheath, Staffs., UNITED KINGDOM. Quarter inch green band Canadian made tracer, Wide green band at equator of case Canadian made Match Ball (1922), Six purple bands around equator of case Canadian Match Ball (1926), Ball round with case blackened quarter inch back from the mouth Short Range Practice Mk 1 (1895 1897), or Mk 2 (1899 1912), Case completely blackened with brass dummy bullet Blank with mock bullet Mk 6, Blank case all black Rifle grenade blank Mk 2, Blank, front half black Rifle Grenade, Ballistite, Blank, front and rear thirds black Rifle grenade Mk 4 for Grenade No 85, Blank, rear half black Rifle grenade blank Mk 7z or Smoke discharger Mk 1T, Ball, reddened case Proof round Mks 1 to 3. 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. 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. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: F Small Arms Ammunition Factory, Footscray, AUSTRALIA. 1949 Bungalows built at Middlestone Moor. Smart and Brown opens on Ordnance Factory site. U or SAM South African Mint, Pretoria, SOUTH AFRICA. ROF Aycliffe; Filling Factory No. El Alamein. DL16 6DG. Skip to main content Hansard UK Parliament Hansard 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. Town Hall, 1931 Road Tolls ceased at Page Bank Bridge. Modern Spennymoor was built on mining and has its origins with the sinking of the Wittered pit in 1839. 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.; Between 1988 and 1992 the Gordon Street factory used the monogram AFF. Spennymoor Town Council, 1973 Spennymoor Town Council created a Successor Council. Spennymoor, Three closed in 1924 and the strike saw another two fail. 1818 The work of the Lewisham establishment was transferred to Enfield. T = Tikkakoski Arsenal - Finland. Population 16,369. Incendiary Buckingham (VII.B), B Mk 1, B Mk 2Z, B Mk 4,B Mk 4. In the event that you consider anything on this page to be in breach of the site's House Rules, please click here. 1921 Royal Ordnance took over the National Filling Factories. Some of the largest horse-race meetings in the North took place on the moor, and miners and their families attended in all their holiday splendour. My husband worked in the mines with Bevin Boys. DAC Dominion Arsenal, Quebec, CANADA. this was examining and weighing capsules to be used in Burma for killing mosquitoes and fleas. Brighter Days Electric lighting for Spennymoor. 1904 Tudhoe Rugby Club defunct. 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. The Rise of Industry Known to have produced .303 ball cartridges, A.VIS Atelier de Fabrication de Vincinnes, FRANCE. This company was already in existence but unconnected with ammunition manufacture when the 1939 1945 war broke out. Housing, too, has made great strides since the end of the War. 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. .303 cartridges known to have been produced with the Blackpole headstamped cases from 1941 to 1945 are: Cartridge Rifle Grenade, Ballistite H Mk 1Z. Known to have produced 7.7 x 56R ball cartridges, which are interchangeable with the .303 cartridge post 1961. 10. Penny Rate Product 239. Low Spennymoor houses cleared. Former Essoldo/Tivoli cinema building destroyed by fire. The ROF Regiment were stationed in Spennymoor factory under the leadership of Captain Calderbank. 1695 Gunpowder was also stored at Upnor Castle (later the Upnor Armaments Supply Depot) from at least as early as 1695. Production of ammunition ceased in 1944. 1966 Bus Station and Parkwood Precinct opened. In 1918 this factory was capable of producing at the rate of about 10 million rounds per month. 1912 Durham Road Higher Elementary School opened. Download. I was chosen along with 2 other girls to visit Goosepool Aerodrome (now Durham/Tees Valley International Airport), where the Canadian airmen were stationed. The monogram MF1 was used for a short time in 1940 when the Gordon Street Factory commenced production. Rough houses were built for the pit workers - houses with two rooms and a loft, more like. These squalid conditions were paralleled by the ever-uncertain economic conditions in industry. 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. It became Kynoch Ltd in 1897. 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. people who designed and built them. AOC Bombrini, Parodi et Delfino, Rome, ITALY. Page Bank colliery opened. 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. 3. Known to have manufactured .303 cartridges in: Ball, Nitro-cellulose Mk 7Z ( Late Pattern ), Blank, Nitro-cellulose L Mk 5Z ( Canadian Pattern ). R..W Rudge Whitworth Ltd., Tyseley, UNITED KINGDOM. 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. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded .303 cartridges in: Ball, Mk 7. Butchers Race, one of the Five Lanes which meet at Tudhoe Crossroads, was so named after this foray. The Arsenal dates from 1670 and has manufactured many different items of warlike stores for the armed forces. Royal Powder Mill Factory No 31. 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. WRA = Winchester Repeating Arms - New Haven, Connecticut. This is a list of Royal Ordnance Factories. Penny Rate Product 18,500. 1909 Pavilion Roller Skating Rink (The Rink) built in Clarence Street. Birmingham Metal and Munitions had ceased manufacture of ammunition by 1920. 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. 1988 Spennymoor Cricket Club Ground purchased. 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. Small Arms Ammunition - This type of factory was, in essence, an Engineering factory which specialised in the production of small arms shell casings. 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. . Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: Blank, Nitro-cellulose L Canadian Mk 1 (1955 & 1956). 20. P or PC Peters Cartridge Co., Kings Mills, Ohio, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Into the 20th Century 1858 Page Bank Colliery disaster 10 miners killed. I remember Lord Haw Haw on radio speaking from Germany calling. EGYPT is known to have produced .303 ball ammunition at the Government Arsenal Shoubra, United Arab Republic and Factory No 10 at Alexandria, Egypt. information and 237,145 images on early companies, their products and the Maintained by Sapere Software. do not work properly without it enabled. This page was last edited on 27 May 2022, at 11:53. Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and On UK Government contracts 1914 1915. 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. 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. The new St. Charles School opened. Mon - Thurs 8:45 - 17:00, Fri 8:45 - 16:30 The BBC is not responsible for the content of any external sites 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 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. Set up as part of the 1939-45 war emergency expansion plans. Email: info@spennymoor-tc.gov.uk. Colour coding appears in several forms on small arms ammunition. 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. 1940 1949. Dedication of Venerable Bede Mission Church. To see the In 1963 too there came the first private building developments to take place since back in the days of the 19th century colliery owners. 22. Nitro-cellulose filled .303 American WW1 Contract Pattern cartridges were produced during the period 1914 1917 as. This factory was part of the 1939-45 war emergency expansion plan. Royal Ordnance Factories were for explosives manufacture, filling of munitions and engineering. 1940 German H.E. SR = Royal Ordnance Factory - Spennymoor, United Kingdom. It initially had a small boxer type primer and was officially designated Cartridge, S.A., Ball, Magazine Rifle, Mark 1.C. The huge munitions factory employed some 17,000 . Royal Powder Mill Factory No 31. This round had a muzzle velocity of 1830 feet per second and a chamber pressure of about 19 tons per square inch. In 1935 the .303 O Mark 1 Observing round was introduced for use in machine guns. ROF Blackpole; SAA Factory No. Whitworth Park Golf Club (9 holes) opens. In 1923 only four houses were built and there was still massive overcrowding in back to back properties. Used code U from 1939 1961 and SAM thereafter. 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. SIP - Royal Ordnance Pension Scheme - 2022. They had a filling factory at Abbey Wood and later during the 1939-45 war a filling factory at Farnham. Made dummy drill rounds with a one piece tinplate case and bullet and having a crimped on base in 1915. 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. Known to have produced both ball and blank .303 cartridges. 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. 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