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. DC Dominion Cartridge Company which later became the Dominion Ammunition Division of Canadian Industries Ltd. 22. IS - Royal Ordnance Pension Scheme - 2022. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of Spennymoor is a town in County Durham, England. Known to have produced .303 ball cartridges in 1924. As a general rule the absence of a colour coding indicates a standard ball cartridge. High Street, DI Defence Industries, Verdun, CANADA. ROF Bishopton; Explosive ROF (3 factories). MI Societe Meridionale dIndustrie, Robert Paulet & Cie ( formerly called Cartoucherie Leon Paulet), Marseille, FRANCE. G18F1 or C18F1 Government Cartridge Factory No 1, Blackheath, Staffs., UNITED KINGDOM. We used to shelter under the stairs during air raids. I worked at the Royal Ordnance factory (ROF) at Spennymoor. Known to have produced .303 cartridges 1914 1918 in: MAXIM Maxim Arms Co.,London, UNITED KINGDOM. TW = Twin Cities Ordnance Plant - Minneapolis, Minnesota. UT = Utah Ordnance Plant - Salt Lake City, Utah. This was very interesting there of course was a special way of doing this that it opened properly when required. It became G. Kynoch & Co Ltd in 1884 and by then was manufacturing metallic ammunition. ROF Blackburn. Download. text of this web site is available under the Creative The first blow was the closure in 1901 of the ironworks which had been rendered obsolete by the pace of change elsewhere. do not work properly without it enabled. We had workers playtime during our half hour break. Royal Ordnance Factory. 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. This factory manufactured cartridges for use by the British Army in India as well as the Indian Army. 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 . The Spennymoor Ammunition was filled at the Royal Ordnance Factory, Aycliffe, Durham. 1996 Tony Blair, M.P., opens the new Page Bankroad bridge. On UK Government contracts 1914 1915. 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. SIP - Royal Ordnance Pension Scheme - 2022. Despite the high levels of unemployment, the housing situation at last took an upturn in the 1930s when the Urban District Council began to use its wider powers to take action on unfit houses. The BBC is not responsible for the content of any external sites This company was first formed in 1862 and manufactured percussion caps. 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 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. 1986 Tudhoe Community Centre built. There was no production of .303 ammunition in 1961. Royal Powder Mill Factory No 31. Population 16,369. ROF Blackburn. RA Raufoss Ammunisjonsfabrikker, Raufoss, NORWAY. The ROF Regiment were stationed in Spennymoor factory. 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. Dunkirk survivors housed in halls and schools. This is a list of Royal Ordnance Factories. Production of ammunition ceased in 1944. After ROF I worked for C.I.E.M.E. 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 company was formed in 1890 at Kings Norton, it owned its own rolling mills and had a loading plant at Abbey wood in Kent. The Norman Conquest meant little to the border folk initially, for they had lived with the constant threat of massacre by raiding Picts and Danes, but then Williams soldiers laid waite the county and distributed the Saxon nobles estates among themselves. 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. 1976 750,000 Spennymoor Recreation Centre opened. Known to have produced .303 ball cartridges during 1988. 1716 Subsequently the Royal Brass Foundry was established for the manufacture of brass ordnance. Into the 20th Century In the event that you consider anything on this page to be in breach of the site's House Rules, please click here. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: Gallery Practice Mk 1 ( Black powder Canada ), Gallery Practice Mk 1 ( Smokeless Canada ). List of sites of Royal Ordnance Factories. people who designed and built them. Although schemes were inaugurated to relieve the gloom nothing could make up for the lack of steady employment. We had stirrup pumps to put out fires from Incendiary Bombs. 1984 Royal Armament Research and Development Establishment's Waltham Abbey south site became part of Royal Ordnance. Spennymoor, United Kingdom (1913-1945). Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: Short Range Practice ( New Zealand Pattern), 215 gr RNSP, 180 gr PSP, 180 gr HP, 174 gr PSP, 150 gr PSP, 130 gr PSP and 150 gr HP Sporting Ammunition, Mks 4 and 5 Big Game Exploder Sporting Ammunition. This Military Arsenal became Nederland Wapen & Munitiefabrikde Kruithoorn NV,s Hertogenbosch and later became Eurometaal. 915.78 GBX Go to investor center Data is from the London Stock Exchange and may be delayed by 15 minutes or more. 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 . Jackson, in his Place Names of Durham, 1916, suggests a Scandinavian Spaan meaning shingle-hut and Anglo-Saxon combination involving mar Spennymoor being the moor called after the shingle-hut erected thereon. The only portion of the common that was left was a small plot reserved for the use of a spring of water. Email: info@spennymoor-tc.gov.uk. In 1923 only four houses were built and there was still massive overcrowding in back to back properties. This company manufactured ammunition from an early stage, finally ceasing production in the late 1950s. 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. Even before the big coal strike of 1926 the collieries had begun to close. ROF Brackla; ROF 41 at Brackla and ROF 53 at Waterton, ROF Dunham on the Hill; Explosives storage depot. C.E. .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. The bullet to this round was designed to break up with a puff of smoke on impact with a target or the ground . In 1918 this factory was capable of producing at the rate of about 10 million rounds per month. This round had a muzzle velocity of 1830 feet per second and a chamber pressure of about 19 tons per square inch. I remember Lord Haw Haw on radio speaking from Germany calling. I worked at the Royal Ordnance factory (ROF) at Spennymoor. 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. 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. 1985 There were 12 Royal Ordnance Factories still in operation. I listened to Vera Lynne and Tommy Handley who's catchphrase was 'Ta Ta for now (TTFN)'. Early site history and production [ edit] First World War [ edit] 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. It was selected to produce small arms ammunition as part of the 1939-1945 war emergency expansion plans. Three closed in 1924 and the strike saw another two fail. HN Royal Ordnance Factory, Hirwaun, South Wales, UNITED KINGDOM. The run-down of the mining industry, however, was nevertheless a serious blow. 13 Oct 2022 - Notice to Royal Ordnance Pension Scheme ("The Scheme") Members. The MG monogram was changed to MF in 1949 which was used until 1962. 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. 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. Nothing could well exceed the nuisance attendant on the disposal of excrement and refuse in Spennymoor. WCC Western Cartridge Co., East Alton, Ill., UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Nitro-cellulose was first used as a propellant in the .303 cartridge during 1894 although it was not officially approved for service until 1916. This page was last edited on 27 May 2022, at 11:53. An era of prosperity dawned in the 1860s and 1870s when the miners were earning 1 per day. The trade depression of the late 19th century, however, caused its closure in 1882. 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. WRA = Winchester Repeating Arms - New Haven, Connecticut. The Rise of Industry Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: KF or K Indian Government Ammunition Factory Kirkee (or Kirkee Arsenal), near Poona, INDIA. 1897 Kenmirs furniture factory opens in Silver Street. Lost in the Blackout. Former Essoldo/Tivoli cinema building destroyed by fire. Kirk Merrington football field refurbished. Servicesheld in Town Hall. DL16 6DG. 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. 1934 Prince of Wales visits the Town for a second time. BLANCH J Blanch & Sons of Fenchurch St, London, UNITED KINGDOM. Skip to main content Hansard UK Parliament Hansard My sister lived in Billingham which was badly bombed, the sky was full of barrage balloons to protect the ICI factory. 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]. TW = Twin Cities Ordnance Plant - Minneapolis, Minnesota. 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. FN Fabrique National dArmes de Guerre, Herstal, BELGIUM. ROF Brackla; Filling Factory No. Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and Spennymoor Town Council, Known to have manufactured Black powder Ball Mk 2 .303 cartridges from 1891 1896. 1984 Middlestone Moor Community Centre built. 1853 Tudhoe Ironworks established. This is an insight into the Aycliffe Royal Ordnance Factory, ROF 59, (1941-1945) and the 'Aycliffe Angels'. Known to have produced .303 ball cartridges c 1934. In addition to these plants the original cap production was maintained at Witton. 1560 The Gunpowder Mills at Waltham Abbey were opened.[1]. Royal Arsenal Factory No 1. manufacturing in Britain. ROF Patricroft; M/C Shop Engineering ROF. The Arsenal dates from 1670 and has manufactured many different items of warlike stores for the armed forces. A nursery school was opened in the park to look after children while mothers did war work. 1920 Durham County Water Board provides water supply. 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. It became Kynoch Ltd in 1897. CHINA is known to have produced some 7.7mm rimmed ammunition for use in captured Japanese machine guns from 1945 onwards. It initially had a small boxer type primer and was officially designated Cartridge, S.A., Ball, Magazine Rifle, Mark 1.C. 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. 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. 1966 Bus Station and Parkwood Precinct opened. When we arrived at Goosepool Mr Hosie was not allowed to enter the airport as it was strictly guarded. 1984 Royal Ordnance had 19 factories and 19000 employees when vested for privatization. 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. 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. 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). .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 Population rises to 19,560. 1807 Small arms manufacture moved to the Royal Manufactory of Small Arms at Lewisham. This factory was also set up as part of the 1939-45 war emergency expansion plans. This factory was part of the 1939- 45 war emergency expansion plans being situated near Crewe and is still in operation. Since the introduction of the .303 cartridge in 1889 it has been manufactured in at least 20 countries and in nearly 200 military variants as well as in numerous experimental and sporting cartridge configurations. There was a glazeboard wad on top of the charge to protect the base of the bullet. A Pretoria West Metal Pressings Pty., Pretoria, SOUTH AFRICA. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded .303 cartridges in: W-W Winchester Western Division of Olin Industries, New Haven, Conn., UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 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 Health Centre opened. 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. 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. Over the next 2 years about 40000 was invested in re-equipping the factory[3]. Beretta Group owns now the Tikka arms brand. MW Small Arms Ammunition Factory No 6, Welchpool, AUSTRALIA. R-P Remington Arms Co, Bridgeport, Conn., UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 5. We sometimes danced and had concerts given by our work mates. 1877 New iron Railway Bridge replaced the old wooden Bridge over the High Street. To see the Grace's Guide To British Industrial History, https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/index.php?title=Royal_Ordnance&oldid=1277361, Creative 1973 Spennymoor Town Council created a Successor Council. 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. 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%. The land on which Spennymoor now stands was once a vast expanse of moorland covered with thorn and whin bushes (Spenny Moor). By this time we were given mugs of tea and corned beef sarnies. BM British Munitions Co Ltd, Millwall, London, UNITED KINGDOM. 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. . MEXICO Fabrica National de Munitions, Mexico City, MEXICO. Spennymoor Circus and Novely Hippodrome opened. Find out how you can use this. 1940 German H.E. ROF Queniborough; Filling Factory No. 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. 1787 Purchase of the powdermill at Waltham Abbey which was named the Royal Gunpowder Factory. 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. FC Federal Cartridge Co, Anoka, Minn., UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 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. Known to have produced .303 ball cartridges. Page Bank colliery opened. D Dominion Cartridge Co., Brownsberg, Quebec, CANADA. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: Armour Piercing W Mk 1 and W Mk 1 Special. Known to have manufactured .303 cartridges in: Ball, Nitro-cellulose Mk 7Z ( Late Pattern ), Blank, Nitro-cellulose L Mk 5Z ( Canadian Pattern ). 2000 Millennium Mining Memorial unveiled in Victoria Jubilee Park. This ammunition is known to have been commercially exported by the manufacturer post 1950 to Afghanistan and India. Engineering - This type of factory produced bomb and shell casings and other metal-based components for all types of munitions. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded .303 cartridges in: AE Arsenal do Ejercito, Lisbon, PORTUGAL. ROF Blackpool; SAA Factory. 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. people who designed and built them. The one good road was maintained by tolls collected at turnpike gates. information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the 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. These squalid conditions were paralleled by the ever-uncertain economic conditions in industry. Penny Rate Product 23,000. Birmingham Metal and Munitions had ceased manufacture of ammunition by 1920. 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. 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). 1880 Tudhoe Iron Works produced 17,000 tons of iron and 2,000 tons of steel. Known to have produced .303 ball cartridges . Known to have manufactured nitro-cellulose loaded .303 ball cartridges for export pre 1939. In 1963 too there came the first private building developments to take place since back in the days of the 19th century colliery owners. Woolwich Arsenal, of which the Royal Laboratory was only a part, is situated in South East London on the River Thames. 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. Penny Rate Product 303. Known to have produced .303 cartridges with this headstamp April 1921 to December 1923, although some also produced in March 1924. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: Ball, Mks 7 and 8Z. 1953 St Pauls Church damaged by fire. ROF Steeton; SAA Factory No. 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. Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. 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]. Known to have manufactured .303 cartridges in: MH Small Arms Ammunition Factory No 3, Hendon, AUSTRALIA. 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. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: Tracer G Mk 2 (Australian Pattern) (projectiles were filled by MS at Salisbury). WWI Massive increase in production. 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. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded .303 cartridges: Ball, Mk 7 for 1914 1917 military contracts, Ball, Mk 7Z ( American WW2 Contract Pattern ). Royal Small Arms Factory Enfield Factory No 2. This distinction was abandoned in May 1920 and thereafter all ball rounds had the purple annulus. RH Raleigh Cycle Co, Nottingham, UNITED KINGDOM. There has been a film made about these men "The guinea pigs". My Father worked at the factory. WRA = Winchester Repeating Arms - New Haven, Connecticut. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded cartridges in: APX Atelier de Construction de Puteaux, FRANCE. Manufactured .303 cartridges with this headstamp January 1924 to February 1925. Town wins Northumbria in Bloom (Town Section). 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. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded 7.7 x 56R ball ammunition which is interchangeable with the .303 cartridges. 1930 New Tivoli cinema opened at a cost of 15,000. 1871 Tower Brewery built at Tudhoe Grange. 33/4m Bessemer Park Estate completed. P or PC Peters Cartridge Co., Kings Mills, Ohio, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Made dummy drill rounds with a one piece tinplate case and bullet and having a crimped on base in 1915. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: DC Defence Industries, Brownsburgh, Quebec, CANADA. Single lineRailway Bridge built over High Street. We were also allowed inside a Halifax Bomber and according to a map we flew all over Darlington and Durham. It was involved in the production of .303 cartridges in only a very limited way and is known to have manufactured these cartridges in: Tracer G Mk 2 (in cases dated 1943 and 1944). It began production of .303 Ammunition in 1941 initially with the headstamp code of two arrows replacing these in 1942 with the code SR. ROF Aycliffe; Filling Factory No. In 1910 the 174 grain pointed Mark VII bullet was adopted and the muzzle velocity was increased to 2440 feet per second. DWM Deutsche Waffen Und Munitionsfabrik, Karlsruhe, GERMANY. 1906 Police Station opens. 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. 1855 Foundation stone laid at St Pauls Church. Cartridges known to have been manufactured in: MEN Maschinenfabrik Elisenhutte, Nassau, WEST GERMANY. 1938 Reconstruction of Tudhoe Mill Sewerage Works. The propellant interests being concentrated mainly at Ardeer within the Nobel Division of ICI. 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. On British military contracts 1940-45 180 & 215 gr jacketed soft point sporting ammunition. International Bowls Championships held in Town. Nobel Industries in turn was to become part of the new giant Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd when it was formed in 1926. Royal Ordnance Factory, Spennymoor, Durham, UK. 10. MJ Small Arms Ammunition Factory No 4, Hendon, AUSTRALIA. The next day the main bodies of the two armies met at Nevilles Cross, near Durham, and the Scots were slaughtered. 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. 20. 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. Known to have manufactured .303 cartridges in: MG / MF2 Small Arms Ammunition Factory No 2, Gordon Street, Footscray, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA. 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. This cupro-nickle jacketed bullet, produced at the Dum Dum ammunition factory in India, had an exposed lead nose which gave rapid expansion on impact and therefore greater wounding effect when it hit a body. 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