This company manufactured ammunition from an early stage, finally ceasing production in the late 1950s. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded cartridges in: APX Atelier de Construction de Puteaux, FRANCE. referenced. 1985 Victoria Jubilee Park purchased by the Town Council. 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. During WW1 Eley produced in excess of 209 Million .303 Mk 7 cartridges. Email: info@spennymoor-tc.gov.uk. UT = Utah Ordnance Plant - Salt Lake City, Utah. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded .303 Ball cartridges 1923. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: MJB Incendiary Annexe to MJ Hendon, AUSTRALIA. 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. Known to have produced .303 ball cartridges. Tracer, armour piercing and incendiary cartridges were adopted by the British Government during 1915, explosive bullets having been approved for service in 1916. SR = Royal Ordnance Factory - Spennymoor, United Kingdom. The comparative isolation of its moorland situation ended too with the opening of a branch railway from the mainline at Ferryhill in 1876. 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. 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. SR = Royal Ordnance Factory - Spennymoor, United Kingdom. The BBC is not responsible for the content of any external sites This factory was also set up as part of the 1939-45 war emergency expansion plans. One evening, in December 1940, when I . This Military Arsenal became Nederland Wapen & Munitiefabrikde Kruithoorn NV,s Hertogenbosch and later became Eurometaal. FNT Fabrica Nacional de Espana, Palencia, SPAIN. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: Ball, Mks 7 and 8Z. In 1918 this factory was capable of producing at the rate of about 10 million rounds per month. 1954 Middlestone Moor housing estate commenced. 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). During WW1 Greenwood & Batley are known to have produced in excess of 705 million .303 Mk 7 cartridges. Used code U from 1939 1961 and SAM thereafter. public. Royal Ordnance Factory. 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. 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. 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. The back streets stand deep in filth and mud. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: NORMA or norma Norma Projectilfabrik, Amotfors, SWEDEN. The latter resulted in colliery workers houses springing up on the main Durham road. Hornady Hornady have manufactured their Custom brand of nitro-cellulose loaded .303 ammunition in the following sporting cartridges: 150 gr Spire Point Soft nosed sporting cartridge, 174 gr Round Soft nosed sporting cartridge. manufacturing in Britain. 1944 Christmas Eve a stray German VI Flying Bomb exploded in Tudhoe Cricket Club field at 6 am D-Day, 6th June. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in 1942 only. 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. On top of these economic misfortunes came the terrible explosion at Tudhoe Colliery in 1882 when 37 lives were lost. U = Utah Ordnance Plant - Salt Lake City, Utah. FC Federal Cartridge Co, Anoka, Minn., UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Manufactured .303 cartridges with this headstamp March 1925 to April 1926. Known to have produced .303 ball cartridges, A.VIS Atelier de Fabrication de Vincinnes, FRANCE. 1891 Whitworth Hall restored after fire of 1877. 2. 1909 Pavilion Roller Skating Rink (The Rink) built in Clarence Street. Royal Ordnance Factory, Spennymoor - Hansard - UK Parliament Hansard record of the item : 'Royal Ordnance Factory, Spennymoor' on Thursday 31 May 1945. Dean & Chapter andMainsforth Collieries opened. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: F Small Arms Ammunition Factory, Footscray, AUSTRALIA. 1966 Bus Station and Parkwood Precinct opened. 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. A Pretoria West Metal Pressings Pty., Pretoria, SOUTH AFRICA. Known to have manufactured .303 cartridges in: K4 Imperial Chemical Industries Kynoch factory at Yeading, Hayes, Middlesex, UNITED KINGDOM. 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. 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]. Spennymoor had elected Labour MPs for many years, but in recent times the area has become more marginal. 1938 Reconstruction of Tudhoe Mill Sewerage Works. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: Blank, Nitro-cellulose L Canadian Mk 1 (1955 & 1956). TW = Twin Cities Ordnance Plant - Minneapolis, Minnesota. 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. Today, Merrington church is one of the most prominent local landmarks. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: MS Explosives Factory, Salisbury, AUSTRALIA. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: PPU or nny Prvi Partizan, Titovo Uzice, YUGOSLAVIA. Town Hall, International Bowls Championships held in Town. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: DC Defence Industries, Brownsburgh, Quebec, CANADA. Do Hirtenberg Patronenfabrik factory at Dordrecht, NETHERLANDS. Archive List > United Kingdom > Wearside and County Durham, Submitted by Christine Rome at Spennymoor Library on behalf of Elizabeth Hodgson (ne Monaghan). Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded .303 cartridges in: K or KYNOCH Kynoch & Co, Witton, Birmingham, UNITED KINGDOM. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: KF or K Indian Government Ammunition Factory Kirkee (or Kirkee Arsenal), near Poona, INDIA. U or SAM South African Mint, Pretoria, SOUTH AFRICA. Ammunition production ceased completely at Woolwich in 1957, the last known production of .303 ammunition there being Mk 7 Ball in 1957. 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. After ROF I worked for C.I.E.M.E. 1941 Royal Ordnance Factory opens. The only portion of the common that was left was a small plot reserved for the use of a spring of water. 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. 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. Population 16,369. On nitro-cellulose loaded .303 Mk 7z Ball cartridges made by FNM of Moscavide, PORTUGAL. Up to 1800 the moor remained largely barren and the few roads across it were dangerous. 1803 the Royal Carriage Department was set up, 1804 Manufacture of small arms began at the Tower of London. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: G..F3 or C..F3 Government Cartridge Factory No 3, Blackpole, Worcestershire, UNITED KINGDOM. MW Small Arms Ammunition Factory No 6, Welchpool, AUSTRALIA. Page Bank colliery opened. We used to shelter under the stairs during air raids. 1818 The work of the Lewisham establishment was transferred to Enfield. 1858 Page Bank Colliery disaster 10 miners killed. 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. 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. 1987 Middlestone Moor Community Centre extended. 1942 Both pilots killed when two Hawker Hurricane aircraft collided and crashed at Tudhoe. 8 ROF Beech Hill, Wigan ROF Birtley. 1906 Police Station opens. IMPERIAL Canadian Industries Ltd, Montreal, CANADA and Plattsburg, NY, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. In 1923 only four houses were built and there was still massive overcrowding in back to back properties. 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. These squalid conditions were paralleled by the ever-uncertain economic conditions in industry. This page has been archived and is no longer updated. In 1910 the 174 grain pointed Mark VII bullet was adopted and the muzzle velocity was increased to 2440 feet per second. 1995 H.M. Queen Elizabeth II visited the Thorn Lighting factory at Spennymoor. My husband worked in the mines with Bevin Boys. These rounds were extensively developed over the years and saw several Mark numbers. Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and 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. 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. 1984 Middlestone Moor Community Centre built. 39 and 40. Known to have produced .303 ball cartridges. VPT Valtion Patruunatehdas, Lapua, FINLAND. V.E.Day. Known to have manufactured .303 cartridges in: GKB or K George Kynoch, Birmingham, UNITED KINGDOM. ROF Featherstone; Filling Factory No. Next we went with the WAAFs to see how they packed parachutes for the boys. Tracer Mk VII.G, G Mk 1, G Mk 2, G Mk 2Z, G Mk 3, Tracer G Mk 3Z, G Mk 4, G Mk 5, G Mk 6, G Mk 6Z, G Mk 7, G Mk 8 and G Mk 8Z, 180 gr Jacketed soft point sporting ammunition, Streamlined Pattern 1936-37 Match Cartridge, Bulleted blanks for Bren, Lewis and Vickers, Experimental armour piercing incendiary (1956). We had evacuees in Spennymoor, these were from Gateshead and people were given 8/- a week to keep them in food, which today is 40p! ROF Aycliffe; Filling Factory No. Similar jacketed hollow point bullets were used in the Mark IV and V rounds. The one good road was maintained by tolls collected at turnpike gates. 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