The Dene is landscaped. The later Mark 6 and 7 incendiary rounds could also be used in this role if required. Kenmirs Furniture Factory and the old Arcadia Cinema were both destroyed by fire. RTS Richard Threlfall and Sons, UNITED KINGDOM. Known to have produced .303 cartridges up to 1919 in: L There is some confusion over this headstamp code as both Lorenz Ammunition and Ordnance Co, Millwall, London, UNITED KINGDOM and Ludlow and Co, Wolverhampton, Staffs, UNITED KINGDOM are believed to have used a L as their code and both manufactured .303 cartridges between 1887 and 1890. Population 16,369. 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. 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. Everyman Theatre opens. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded .303 cartridges in: 130gr, 150gr, 180gr and 215 gr jacketed soft point sporting ammunition, OFN Government Ordinance Factory, Lagos, NIGERIA. Beretta Group owns now the Tikka arms brand. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: (The metal components for these rounds were manufactured by MH and MJ at Hendon). 01388 815276 Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: Armour Piercing W Mk 1 and W Mk 1 Special. 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. Town wins award in Britain in Bloom Competition. E or EB Eley Brothers, Edmonton, London, UNITED KINGDOM. Childrens play areas upgraded by the provision of safety surfacing at eight sites. On nitro-cellulose loaded .303 Mk 7z Ball cartridges made by FNM of Moscavide, PORTUGAL. Manufactured .303 cartridges with this headstamp January 1924 to February 1925. This factory made and marked cases but filling was carried out at the Royal Ordnance Factory Swynnerton, Staffs. 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 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. Royal Ordnance Factory, ROF, Blackburn was part of the Ministry of Defence organisations producing components for the manufacture of armaments and arms related equipment from the late 1930 until after WWII. This factory made and marked cases but filling was carried out at the Royal Ordnance Factory Swynnerton, Staffs. The .303 British Service cartridge, commonly known as the .303 or .303 British was adopted by Britain along with the Lee Metford Rifle in 1889. 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. people who designed and built them. Population 22,000. Custom was when the boys used these parachutes successfully it was usual for them to send a letter of thanks and a present to whoever had packed the parachute as the girls would have their name and address inside the package. 1935 Tudhoe Colliery closes. Tracer, armour piercing and incendiary cartridges were adopted by the British Government during 1915, explosive bullets having been approved for service in 1916. This mark of bullet remained the standard ball round for the remainder of the .303 cartridges service life. 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. Royal Ordnance Factory Leeds, first opened as a munitions factory in December 1915 and opened as an ROF in January 1936, was one of a number of Royal Ordnance Factories created at the start of the Second World War . Yokosuka Naval Arsenal, JAPAN. bombs fall on Tudhoe. In 1935 the .303 O Mark 1 Observing round was introduced for use in machine guns. MQ Small Arms Ammunition Factory No 5, Rocklea, AUSTRALIA. My thanks to John Kindred for clarification on the monograms used on Australian small arms ammunition. Even before the big coal strike of 1926 the collieries had begun to close. The Spennymoor ammunition was then filled at ROF Aycliffe. The monogram MF1 was used for a short time in 1940 when the Gordon Street Factory commenced production. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: Ball, Nitro-cellulose Mk 7 ( Canadian WW1 contract pattern ) 1914-16, Ball, Nitro-cellulose Mk 7Z ( Canadian Pattern ), Tracer G Mk 2Z, G Mk 4Z ( Canadian Pattern ). Beretta Group owns now the Tikka arms brand. The land on which Spennymoor now stands was once a vast expanse of moorland covered with thorn and whin bushes (Spenny Moor). BPD Bombrini, Parodi et Delfino, Rome ITALY. VPT Valtion Patruunatehdas, Lapua, FINLAND. We had workers playtime during our half hour break. From 1918 to 1950 it had its own parliamentary constituency, from 1950 to 1974 it was in the Durham constituency and from 1974 to 1983 in the North West Durham constituency. 1985 Victoria Jubilee Park purchased by the Town Council. 1934 Prince of Wales visits the Town for a second time. Dedication of Venerable Bede Mission Church. The factory at Bishopton was responsible for producing explosives and propellants from the First World War and continued to supply the Army and Royal Air Force until production ceased in 2002. 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]. Royal Ordnance Factory. 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. 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. 1918 World War l ended in victory for the Allies. We were introduced to several top men who told us our visit had been delayed due to various reasons, because of raids and moonlight. 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. 1763 The Greenwich magazine was moved to Purfleet. The propellant interests being concentrated mainly at Ardeer within the Nobel Division of ICI. 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. WWI Massive increase in production. DC Dominion Cartridge Company which later became the Dominion Ammunition Division of Canadian Industries Ltd. 33/4m Bessemer Park Estate completed. They had a filling factory at Abbey Wood and later during the 1939-45 war a filling factory at Farnham. 1875 Croxdale Colliery explosion 1 miner killed. 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. Royal Ordnance Factory, Spennymoor - Hansard - UK Parliament Hansard record of the item : 'Royal Ordnance Factory, Spennymoor' on Thursday 31 May 1945. Known to have produced .303 ball cartridges, A.VIS Atelier de Fabrication de Vincinnes, FRANCE. MW Small Arms Ammunition Factory No 6, Welchpool, AUSTRALIA. 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. The Manor of Merrington belonged successively to the priors, monks and dean and chapter of Durham Cathedral. Explosive bullets were not produced in the UK after about 1933 due to the relatively small amount of explosive that could be contained in the bullet limiting their effectiveness, their role being successfully fulfilled by the use of Mark 6 and 7 incendiary bullets which were also of a less complicated construction. These squalid conditions were paralleled by the ever-uncertain economic conditions in industry. DL16 6DG. The following .303 cartridges are known to have been produced since 1889: Armour Piercing Mks VII.S, VII.P, VII.PZ, VII.W, VII.WZ, W Mk 1, Ball, Cordite Mks 1, 2, 2*, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7, Ball, Nitro-cellulose Mks 7z, 8z & 7z RC ( reduced charge ), Ball, Short Range Practice, Cordite Mks 1,2,3 and 4, Cartridge Rifle Grenade, Cordite Mks 1 and 2, Cartridge Discharger, Blackpowder E Mk 1T, Drill D Mk 6, D Mk 6*, D Mk 7, D Mk 8 and D Mk 9, Explosive R Mk 1, R Mk 2, R Mk 3, and R Mk 3*. 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. 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]. 1869 Shaft sunk at Tudhoe Grange Colliery. VE Cartoucherie de Valence, FRANCE. 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. 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. British military contracts 1914 1917, Ball, Mk 7Z (Canadian Pattern). Powder was stored at Greenwich from an early date. The Cleveland iron trade, which used the coal and coke produced at Spennymoor, was depressed. 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. A or AI Artillerie Inrichtingen, Hembrug, NETHERLANDS. The arms factory was closed in 1987. CAC Colonial Ammunition Co., Auckland, NEW ZEALAND. Set up as part of the 1939-45 war emergency expansion plans. 1560 The Gunpowder Mills at Waltham Abbey were opened.[1]. 1984 Royal Ordnance had 19 factories and 19000 employees when vested for privatization. DAC Dominion Arsenal, Quebec, CANADA. Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. We were shown how the airmen assembled our bullets and taken to try the Frainer Bomber (named the Lincoln Frainer). Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: G..F3 or C..F3 Government Cartridge Factory No 3, Blackpole, Worcestershire, UNITED KINGDOM. On British military contracts 1940-45 180 & 215 gr jacketed soft point sporting ammunition. Royal Powder Mill Factory No 31. 1942 1942 1943 1944 Tikkakoski Arsenal - Finland Tikkakoski was the first private arms manufacturer in Finland. This factory manufactured cartridges for use by the British Army in India as well as the Indian Army. 1889 William Anderson was appointed Director General of Ordnance Factories, responsible for the ordnance factories, laboratory, carriage department and gun factory at Woolwich Arsenal, the small-arms factories at Enfield and Birmingham, and the gunpowder factory at Waltham Abbey. On top of these economic misfortunes came the terrible explosion at Tudhoe Colliery in 1882 when 37 lives were lost. T = Tikkakoski Arsenal - Finland. this was examining and weighing capsules to be used in Burma for killing mosquitoes and fleas. 1759 Government purchase of the privately-owned gunpowder mill at Faversham and the establishment there of the Royal Powder Mill. Spennymoor had elected Labour MPs for many years, but in recent times the area has become more marginal. 8; . Incendiary Buckingham (VII.B), B Mk 1, B Mk 2Z, B Mk 4,B Mk 4. The Spennymoor Ammunition was filled at the Royal Ordnance Factory, Aycliffe, Durham. those of the BBC. 1880 Tudhoe Iron Works produced 17,000 tons of iron and 2,000 tons of steel. 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. 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. Also manufactured Mk VI Dummy cartridges, SBR Sellier & Bellot, Riga, LATVIA. Royal Arsenal Factory No 1. The following sections attempt to identify the manufacturers of the .303 cartridge and whilst it is acknowledged that this may not a complete listing I hope it will give some insight into this historically important cartridge. There was no production of .303 ammunition in 1961. The moor itself comes into the record in 1615 as the result of a general muster on the moor of all men able to bear arms within the bishopric, between the ages of 15 and 60; the gathering amounted to 8,320 (Fordyce). We were then introduced to a number of Canadian boys. 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. 1984 Middlestone Moor Community Centre built. 1995 H.M. Queen Elizabeth II visited the Thorn Lighting factory at Spennymoor. 1971 New sewage plant built at Tudhoe Mill. MI Societe Meridionale dIndustrie, Robert Paulet & Cie ( formerly called Cartoucherie Leon Paulet), Marseille, FRANCE. Known to have manufactured nitro-cellulose loaded .303 ball cartridges for export pre 1939. Town Hall refurbished. During WW1 Eley produced in excess of 209 Million .303 Mk 7 cartridges. The main factor was the opening in 1941 of a Royal Ordnance Factory at Merrington Lane and since then this estate has provided a constant source of alternative employment to the . This firm was first formed by George Kynoch at Witton in 1862 as a manufacturer of percussion caps. Known to have produced .303 ball cartridges c 1934. 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. This factory was also set up as part of the 1939-45 war emergency expansion plans. 1949 Bungalows built at Middlestone Moor. 1940 German H.E. Penny Rate Product 23,000. Known to have produced 7.7 x 56R ball cartridges, which are interchangeable with the .303 cartridge. 1970 Moor Grange sheltered accommodation completed. My husband worked in the mines with Bevin Boys. Population rises to 19,560. 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. DA Dominion Arsenal, Montreal, CANADA. 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 .303 cartridges during the period 1940 1944 in: C-P Crompton Parkinson Ltd, Doncaster, Yorkshire, UNITED KINGDOM. Steve 11-03-2014, 06:29 PM #3 lithoman Known to have manufactured .303 cartridges in: K4 Imperial Chemical Industries Kynoch factory at Yeading, Hayes, Middlesex, UNITED KINGDOM. Penny Rate Product 239. Demolition of High Street Railway Bridge. Small Arms Ammunition - This type of factory was, in essence, an Engineering factory which specialised in the production of small arms shell casings. 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