1985 Victoria Jubilee Park purchased by the Town Council. 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. 1988 Spennymoor Cricket Club Ground purchased. The Rise of Industry MJ Small Arms Ammunition Factory No 4, Hendon, AUSTRALIA. P or PC Peters Cartridge Co., Kings Mills, Ohio, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 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. 8). Whitworth Park Golf Club (9 holes) opens. Beretta Group owns now the Tikka arms brand. 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. 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. This factory was also set up as part of the 1939-45 war emergency expansion plans. WRA = Winchester Repeating Arms - New Haven, Connecticut. There was a glazeboard wad on top of the charge to protect the base of the bullet. DI Defence Industries, Verdun, CANADA. ROF Patricroft; M/C Shop Engineering ROF. 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 . 1763 The Greenwich magazine was moved to Purfleet. 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. .303 cartridges known to have been produced with the Blackpole headstamped cases from 1941 to 1945 are: Cartridge Rifle Grenade, Ballistite H Mk 1Z. 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. 1855 The Ordnance Office was dissolved in 1855. K2 Imperial Chemical Industries Kynoch factory at Standish, near Wigan, Lancs, UNITED KINGDOM. They had a goat mascot named Monty who ate the vegetables which the lads were growing, "Dig For Victory". It began production of .303 Ammunition in 1941 initially with the headstamp code of two arrows replacing these in 1942 with the code SR. For any other comments, please Contact Us. The end of World War II, however, saw this industrial activity greatly curtailed and hard times returned, although without the severity of the earlier pre-war years. We used to shelter under the stairs during air raids. 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.; 1995 H.M. Queen Elizabeth II visited the Thorn Lighting factory at Spennymoor. We sometimes danced and had concerts given by our work mates. Modern Spennymoor was built on mining and has its origins with the sinking of the Wittered pit in 1839. 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). those of the BBC. 1868 Spennymoor Steeplechase Meeting at the Four Lane Ends attracted 8,000 spectators. IS - Royal Ordnance Pension Scheme - 2022. R-P Remington Arms Co, Bridgeport, Conn., UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Factory in operation 1828 1919. In addition to these plants the original cap production was maintained at Witton. Prior to the formation of Kynoch Ltd (see later entry) it was known to have produced .303 cartridges in: GEVELOT Gevelot & Gaupillat Freres, Paris, FRANCE. My brother-in-law was taken prisoner in Italy. Post-WWI Returned to lower production levels. 01388 815276 1787 Purchase of the powdermill at Waltham Abbey which was named the Royal Gunpowder Factory. Known to have manufactured .303 cartridges in: GKB or K George Kynoch, Birmingham, UNITED KINGDOM. ROF Featherstone; Filling Factory No. This factory was set up as part of the 1939-45 war emergency expansion plan. I remember Tudhoe Colliery being bombed. ROF Spennymoor; SAA Factory No. My husband worked in the mines with Bevin Boys. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: TM..B Pirotechnia di Bologna, ITALY. This page was last edited on 27 May 2022, at 11:53. Nitro-cellulose was first used as a propellant in the .303 cartridge during 1894 although it was not officially approved for service until 1916. Population rises to 19,560. VPT Valtion Patruunatehdas, Lapua, FINLAND. Dedication of Venerable Bede Mission Church. They had a filling factory at Abbey Wood and later during the 1939-45 war a filling factory at Farnham. Spennymoor Town Council, Known to have produced .303 ball cartridges c 1937, SFM Societe Francaise des Munitions, Issy les Moulineaux, FRANCE. 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. Known to have produced .303 ball cartridges . 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. Low Spennymoor houses cleared. Servicesheld in Town Hall. To see the 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. This company is believed to have manufactured .303 Ball, Blackpowder Mk 2 cartridges from 1890. 1941 Royal Ordnance Factory opens. 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. Produced .303 Mk 7 ball ammunition in cases believed to be made by Eley. 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 story has been placed in the following categories. Manufactured .303 cartridges from 1915 1918 in: Incendiary Buckingham (VII.B), B Mk 1, B Mk 2Z, SAAF Small Arms Factory Footscray, AUSTRALIA. Initially ICI Ltd were to have operated this plant but they were advised in 1940 of the change in plans and the factory was run as a Royal Ordnance Factory by the Ministry of Supply. 1913 Queen Mary visits the town. Its head office is at Glascoed. Town wins Northumbria in Bloom (Town Section). 1942 Both pilots killed when two Hawker Hurricane aircraft collided and crashed at Tudhoe. Spennymoor, United Kingdom (1913-1945). 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. 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. http://www.durhamatwar.org.uk/material/569/, 1837 Spennymoors firstRailway Station built, 1839 Shaft sunk at Whitworth Park Colliery, 1841- Spennymoor National School (Dysons) opened. The greatest project came with the development of the Tudhoe ironworks site 70 acres that was turned into the Bessemer Park Housing Estate. 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. ROF Blackpool; SAA Factory. 299.06 KB. Powder was stored at Greenwich from an early date. This producer is now known as Metallwerk Elisenhutte GmbH Nassau. Royal Ordnance Factory. 1976 750,000 Spennymoor Recreation Centre opened. K5 Imperial Chemical Industries Kynoch factory at Kidderminster, Worcestershire., UNITED KINGDOM. We were chosen because we had produced the most cases in a certain time and had been neither late or absent. 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 ). The huge munitions factory employed some 17,000 . This factory was set up as part of the 1939-45 war emergency plans and produced its first complete .303 rounds in October 1940. Known to have manufactured .303 cartridges in: MG / MF2 Small Arms Ammunition Factory No 2, Gordon Street, Footscray, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA. In 1963 changes were indicated and Durham County Council and then then Ministry of Housing and Local Government agreed that Spennymoor should be a new growth point and that town centre redevelopment should take place; that the Tudhoe ironworks site should be reclaimed; that a major highway scheme should be put into hand; that the Royal Ordnance Factory Industrial Estate should be extended and that the Green Lane Industrial Estate should be developed. The town was founded over 160 years ago. New Railway station built at Spennymoor. 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. Spennymoor Leisure Pool opened cost 1.6m. The ROF Regiment were stationed in Spennymoor factory under the leadership of Captain Calderbank. Solid Case, .303inch. T = Tikkakoski Arsenal - Finland. He was in a parachute regiment when Italy capitulated. This became the Royal Small Arms Factory (Birmingham). The land on which Spennymoor now stands was once a vast expanse of moorland covered with thorn and whin bushes (Spenny Moor). Gas Works opened for lighting in Spennymoor. c 1948. Royal Small Arms Factory Enfield Factory No 2. Later, effective tracer and incendiary composition operations were also carried out at Witton. This factory was part of the 1939-45 war emergency expansion plan. Royal Ordnance Factory, Spennymoor - Hansard - UK Parliament Hansard record of the item : 'Royal Ordnance Factory, Spennymoor' on Thursday 31 May 1945. 1970 Moor Grange sheltered accommodation completed. Known to have manufactured .303 cartridges in: K4 Imperial Chemical Industries Kynoch factory at Yeading, Hayes, Middlesex, UNITED KINGDOM. KN Kings Norton Metal Co., Birmingham, UNITED KINGDOM. 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 houses were, unusually, semi-detached and arranged in a chequerboard layout, very much in contrast to the dreary terraces that were then the standard. In 1918 this factory had the capacity to produce about 5.4 million rounds per month. 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. The Spennymoor Ammunition was filled at the Royal Ordnance Factory, Aycliffe, Durham. Spennymoor, United Kingdom (1913-1945). The The later Mark 6 and 7 incendiary rounds could also be used in this role if required. Woolwich Arsenal, of which the Royal Laboratory was only a part, is situated in South East London on the River Thames. I worked at the Royal Ordnance factory (ROF) at Spennymoor. MQ Small Arms Ammunition Factory No 5, Rocklea, AUSTRALIA. In 1968 work commenced on the 1,009 houses here and this allowed the clearance of 500 unfit houses as well as the provision of housing work workers coming to the new factories. This factory was part of the 1939- 45 war emergency expansion plans being situated near Crewe and is still in operation. RH Raleigh Cycle Co, Nottingham, UNITED KINGDOM. The MG monogram was changed to MF in 1949 which was used until 1962. 1971 New sewage plant built at Tudhoe Mill. It stands above the Wear Valley approximately seven miles south of Durham. Royal Small Arms Factory Enfield Factory No 2. Spennymoor is a town in County Durham, England. 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. Three closed in 1924 and the strike saw another two fail. On nitro-cellulose loaded .303 Mk 7z Ball cartridges made by FNM of Moscavide, PORTUGAL. Nothing could well exceed the nuisance attendant on the disposal of excrement and refuse in Spennymoor. 1940 German H.E. Tudhoe football field created. 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 . The coal industry has been replaced by manufacturers of consumer goods, and factories of Electrolux, Thorn Lighting and Black and Decker were established. It was really pitiful, these lads had had a terrible time. Identification Manuals Nos 1, 2, 3, and 4 on the .303 British Service Cartridge by B.A. Known to have produced .303 ball cartridges in 1924. 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. 1918 World War l ended in victory for the Allies. Rough houses were built for the pit workers - houses with two rooms and a loft, more like. referenced. Spennymoor had elected Labour MPs for many years, but in recent times the area has become more marginal. 1916 Town Hall built at a cost of 18,000. At the factory we made .303 and .5 cases and caps, as well as bullets. 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. 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. Known to have produced .303 ball cartridges. Today, Merrington church is one of the most prominent local landmarks. Although these were the only houses built before the war, they did provide some hope and allowed the clearance of some of the worst of the squalid areas. 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. manufacturing in Britain. Electric lighting for Spennymoor. Royal Powder Mill Factory No 31. 1853 Tudhoe Ironworks established. 2002 Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee, Parade of Golden Roses, Jubilee Park. POF Pakistan Ordnance Factory, Rawalpindi, PAKISTAN. 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. CAC Colonial Ammunition Co., Auckland, NEW ZEALAND. These soft nosed and hollow pointed bullets were considered however to be in contravention of the St Petersburg Declaration and the Hague Convention, in 1903 they were withdrawn from active service and were afterwards to be used solely for target practice. 33/4m Bessemer Park Estate completed. 22. 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. It is known to have produced .303 cartridges in: Ball, Cordite Mk 2, Mk 2 Special, Mk 6 and Mk 7. Up to 1800 the moor remained largely barren and the few roads across it were dangerous. ROF Queniborough; Filling Factory No. 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. 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. 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. ROF Brackla; ROF 41 at Brackla and ROF 53 at Waterton, ROF Dunham on the Hill; Explosives storage depot. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: MJB Incendiary Annexe to MJ Hendon, AUSTRALIA. Its largest division was ammunition followed by tanks and fighting vehicles, which had factories at Leeds and Nottingham[8]. BM British Munitions Co Ltd, Millwall, London, UNITED KINGDOM. International Bowls Championships held in Town. 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. Floral waistcoats and ribboned hats were worn on these highly colourful occasions. The one good road was maintained by tolls collected at turnpike gates. This ammunition is known to have been commercially exported by the manufacturer post 1950 to Afghanistan and India. 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). Johnson, who made a fortune out of it. 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. 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. Inside, the most interesting feature is the screen, a typical example of late-17th century work. 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. E or EB Eley Brothers, Edmonton, London, UNITED KINGDOM. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: PPU or nny Prvi Partizan, Titovo Uzice, YUGOSLAVIA. The headstamp code B denoting the manufacturer should not be confused with B as in BVIIZ which indicates incendiary ammunition. 1973 Spennymoor Town Council created a Successor Council. It is known to have manufactured .303 cartridges in: Cartridge Rifle Grenade, Cordite H Mk 3 and H Mk 5. 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. Known to have produced both ball and blank .303 cartridges. ROF Aycliffe; Filling Factory No. On UK Government contracts 1914 1915. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded 7.7 x 56R ball ammunition which is interchangeable with the .303 cartridges. 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. Known to have manufactured nitro-cellulose loaded .303 Ball, Mk 7 cartridges. We were then introduced to a number of Canadian boys. 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 ). I remember Lord Haw Haw on radio speaking from Germany calling. 915.78 GBX Go to investor center Data is from the London Stock Exchange and may be delayed by 15 minutes or more. 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. 1939 Outbreak of World War II. Known to have produced .303 cartridges 1914 1918 in: MAXIM Maxim Arms Co.,London, UNITED KINGDOM. The views expressed are theirs and unless specifically stated are not New Pavilions constructed at Jubilee Park. Kenmirs Furniture Factory and the old Arcadia Cinema were both destroyed by fire. 1897 Kenmirs furniture factory opens in Silver Street. This was very interesting there of course was a special way of doing this that it opened properly when required. SIP - Royal Ordnance Pension Scheme - 2022. Cases were made in Birmingham then assembled and loaded at the Abbey Wood Factory, next to Woolwich Arsenal. Mon - Thurs 8:45 - 17:00, Fri 8:45 - 16:30 21. 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 ball cartridges, A.VIS Atelier de Fabrication de Vincinnes, FRANCE. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded .303 Ball cartridges, VIS Atelier de Chargement de Vincennes, FRANCE. The run-down of the mining industry, however, was nevertheless a serious blow. Whitworth Hall severely damaged by fire. WRA = Winchester Repeating Arms - New Haven, Connecticut. 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. 1972 Cambridge Theatre/Cinema destroyed by fire. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: G, GB or GBF Greenwood and Batley, Leeds, UNITED KINGDOM. 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. 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. Find out how you can use this. 1803 the Royal Carriage Department was set up, 1804 Manufacture of small arms began at the Tower of London. The bullet to this round was designed to break up with a puff of smoke on impact with a target or the ground . Spennymoor became part of the South West Durham depressed area. MI Societe Meridionale dIndustrie, Robert Paulet & Cie ( formerly called Cartoucherie Leon Paulet), Marseille, FRANCE. Dean & Chapter andMainsforth Collieries opened. Wesleyan Church opened. When we arrived at Goosepool Mr Hosie was not allowed to enter the airport as it was strictly guarded. 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. 581.38 KB. A Pretoria West Metal Pressings Pty., Pretoria, SOUTH AFRICA. We were also allowed inside a Halifax Bomber and according to a map we flew all over Darlington and Durham. US Lend Lease production for the UK was 1,196,706 No 4 rifles whereas the total British wartime production of this rifle was 2,021,913. Penny Rate Product 18,500. 1966 Bus Station and Parkwood Precinct opened. Butchers Race, one of the Five Lanes which meet at Tudhoe Crossroads, was so named after this foray. 3. Used the monogram 1942 to 1943. 2. Troubled Years info@spennymoor-tc.gov.uk 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. More workers came from Wales and Lancashire with the opening of the mine at Page Bank (ten lives were lost in a pit fire here in 1858), and with the sinking of a new pit at Tudhoe in the 1880s. 10. 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. PMP Pretoria Metal Pressings (Pty) Ltd., Pretoria, SOUTH AFRICA. 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. ROF Blackpole; SAA Factory No. On top of these economic misfortunes came the terrible explosion at Tudhoe Colliery in 1882 when 37 lives were lost. Royal Powder Mill Factory No 31. This of course was not the total number of .303 rifles produced in the UK during WW2, as the SMLE Rifle No 1 was still being manufactured, BSA alone producing nearly a quarter of a million No 1 Mk III and III* rifles. 1906 Birmingham Small Arms Co took over the Royal Small Arms Factory at Sparkbrook[5]. It began production of .303 ammunition in 1941 initially with the headstamp code of two arrows replacing these in 1942 with the code SR. Page Bank colliery opened. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: Gallery Practice Mk 1 ( Black powder Canada ), Gallery Practice Mk 1 ( Smokeless Canada ). ROF Aycliffe; Filling Factory No. Penny Rate Product 23,000. The three historic state-controlled munitions factories at Woolwich, Enfield, and Waltham Abbey were taken over as National Factories were controlled by the Army Board at the outbreak of the war, under the Master General of the Ordnance. 102.56 KB. Monogram in use 1941 1945. 1928 Spennymoor Golf Club opened at North Close. Everyman Theatre opens. The BBC is not responsible for the content of any external sites Made dummy drill rounds with a one piece tinplate case and bullet and having a crimped on base in 1915. Types of Royal Ordnance Factories (ROFs) 1. Production of ammunition ceased in 1944. C.E. 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. 1916 Town Hall built at a cost of 18,000 the Town Council Arms began at the Royal Gunpowder.. 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