It is impossible to walk between the rows of cottages without being convinced that the surface of the ground is to a large extent composed of the overflowing contents of these midden boxes. Initial Radway Green production used a single arrow as the headstamp code and this was replaced in 1942 by the RG code. In 1910 the 174 grain pointed Mark VII bullet was adopted and the muzzle velocity was increased to 2440 feet per second. Rough houses were built for the pit workers houses with two rooms and a loft, more like piggeries than human habitation according to Dodd. Penny Rate Product 303. This web publication contains 152,494 pages of My brother-in-law was taken prisoner in Italy. The Arsenal dates from 1670 and has manufactured many different items of warlike stores for the armed forces. The greatest project came with the development of the Tudhoe ironworks site 70 acres that was turned into the Bessemer Park Housing Estate. 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. Known to have produced 7.7 x 56R ball cartridges which are interchangeable with the .303 cartridge. This round had a muzzle velocity of 1830 feet per second and a chamber pressure of about 19 tons per square inch. It began production of .303 ammunition in 1941 initially with the headstamp code of two arrows replacing these in 1942 with the code SR. Woolwich Arsenal, of which the Royal Laboratory was only a part, is situated in South East London on the River Thames. This is a list of Royal Ordnance Factories . 1855 Foundation stone laid at St Pauls Church. The one good road was maintained by tolls collected at turnpike gates. Later, effective tracer and incendiary composition operations were also carried out at Witton. Incendiary Buckingham (VII.B), B Mk 1, B Mk 2Z, B Mk 4,B Mk 4. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: TM..B Pirotechnia di Bologna, ITALY. Copyright of content contributed to this Archive rests with the author. 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. My Father worked at the factory. The headstamp code G, denoting manufacturer, should not be confused with G as in GIV indicating a tracer cartridge. Wesleyan Church opened. Modern Spennymoor was built on mining and has its origins with the sinking of the Wittered pit in 1839. .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 K5 Imperial Chemical Industries Kynoch factory at Kidderminster, Worcestershire., UNITED KINGDOM. Royal Arsenal Factory No 1. CAC Colonial Ammunition Co., Auckland, NEW ZEALAND. 1945 World War II ended. It was really pitiful, these lads had had a terrible time. High Street, Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: (The metal components for these rounds were manufactured by MH and MJ at Hendon). Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: Ball, Mks 7 and 8Z. 1995 H.M. Queen Elizabeth II visited the Thorn Lighting factory at Spennymoor. Call Us: 01388 815276 1984 Royal Armament Research and Development Establishment's Waltham Abbey south site became part of Royal Ordnance. 1972 Cambridge Theatre/Cinema destroyed by fire. Some military training seems to have been given, doubtless with a view to the then unsettled state of the country due to the growing tension between Parliament and the King. The Spennymoor Ammunition was filled at the Royal Ordnance Factory, Aycliffe, Durham. 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. List of sites of Royal Ordnance Factories. 1880 Tudhoe Iron Works produced 17,000 tons of iron and 2,000 tons of steel. 20. 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). Mr Hosie who was chauffeur for ROF at the time was our driver. This factory is known to have produced .303 cartridges in: PS or S Pirotechnico Militar de Seville, SPAIN. Spennymoor is a town in County Durham, England. Solid Case, .303inch. Do Hirtenberg Patronenfabrik factory at Dordrecht, NETHERLANDS. 1976 750,000 Spennymoor Recreation Centre opened. 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. Yokosuka Naval Arsenal, JAPAN. This page was last edited on 27 May 2022, at 11:53. The Dene is landscaped. The Manor of Merrington belonged successively to the priors, monks and dean and chapter of Durham Cathedral. 1759 Government purchase of the privately-owned gunpowder mill at Faversham and the establishment there of the Royal Powder Mill. The comparative isolation of its moorland situation ended too with the opening of a branch railway from the mainline at Ferryhill in 1876. Even before the big coal strike of 1926 the collieries had begun to close. More than 17,000 women worked at the factory, and Ms Scott said . ROF Spennymoor; SAA Factory No. WRA = Winchester Repeating Arms - New Haven, Connecticut. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: NORMA or norma Norma Projectilfabrik, Amotfors, SWEDEN. Set up as part of the 1939-45 war emergency expansion plans. One evening, in December 1940, when I . VE Cartoucherie de Valence, FRANCE. In WWII Explosives factories were established at[9]: WWII: 20 Filling factories were planned but only 16 were built including[11] [12]: WWII: Other Filling factories were devoted to Small Arms Ammunition: Grace's Guide web site design is Copyright 2021 by Grace's Guide Ltd. 1890 Tudhoe Iron Works produced 50,000 tons of steel. 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. In 1918 this factory had the capacity to produce about 5.4 million rounds per month. 1877 New iron Railway Bridge replaced the old wooden Bridge over the High Street. . On nitro-cellulose loaded .303 Mk 7z Ball cartridges made by FNM of Moscavide, PORTUGAL. 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. This company is believed to have manufactured .303 Ball, Blackpowder Mk 2 cartridges from 1890. 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. E or EB Eley Brothers, Edmonton, London, UNITED KINGDOM. Byers Green and Kirk Merrington redeveloped. 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. Known to have produced .303 ball cartridges. BE or BE Royal Ordnance Factory, Blackpole, Worcester, UNITED KINGDOM. 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. Town wins award in Britain in Bloom Competition. 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. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded .303 Ball cartridges, VIS Atelier de Chargement de Vincennes, FRANCE. I remember Tudhoe Colliery being bombed. Colour coding appears in several forms on small arms ammunition. Cartridge cases were being produced by late 1940 but the ball bullets were still being imported into the factory in 1941. This company was first formed in 1862 and manufactured percussion caps. Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. 1899 Control of the factories was returned to the Ordnance Department. The Rise of Industry The latter resulted in colliery workers houses springing up on the main Durham road. 1934 Prince of Wales visits the Town for a second time. Housing, too, has made great strides since the end of the War. information and 237,145 images on early companies, their products and the 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! 1954 Middlestone Moor housing estate commenced. Known to have manufactured .303 cartridges in: MH Small Arms Ammunition Factory No 3, Hendon, AUSTRALIA. The Gordon Street Factory used the monogram MF2 for a short time during 1940. Tracer, armour piercing and incendiary cartridges were adopted by the British Government during 1915, explosive bullets having been approved for service in 1916. 10. P or PC Peters Cartridge Co., Kings Mills, Ohio, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. An era of prosperity dawned in the 1860s and 1870s when the miners were earning 1 per day. Ammunition production ceased completely at Woolwich in 1957, the last known production of .303 ammunition there being Mk 7 Ball in 1957. 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. Spennymoor Leisure Pool opened cost 1.6m. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded .303 cartridges in: Cartridge Rifle Grenade, H Mk 7Z, M11 and M12, FNM Fabrica Nacional de Municoes e Armas Legeiras, Moscavide, PORTUGAL. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: MS Explosives Factory, Salisbury, AUSTRALIA. There was a glazeboard wad on top of the charge to protect the base of the bullet. There has been a film made about these men "The guinea pigs". The land on which Spennymoor now stands was once a vast expanse of moorland covered with thorn and whin bushes (Spenny Moor). Inside, the most interesting feature is the screen, a typical example of late-17th century work. Known to have manufactured .303 cartridges in: US United States Cartridge Co, Lowell, Mass., UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 21. Spennymoor Town Council, 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. A new 3-bedroom semi cost 3,375 to buy on private housing estate. Royal Ordnance Factory, Spennymoor - Hansard - UK Parliament Hansard record of the item : 'Royal Ordnance Factory, Spennymoor' on Thursday 31 May 1945. Identification Manuals Nos 1, 2, 3, and 4 on the .303 British Service Cartridge by B.A. 1887 Renamed the Royal Ordnance Factories, control passed to the financial secretary's Civil Department. Nothing could well exceed the nuisance attendant on the disposal of excrement and refuse in Spennymoor. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded 7.7 x 56R ball ammunition which is interchangeable with the .303 cartridges. King Street Council School built. Tudhoe and Spennymoor Local History Society founded. 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. 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. 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. Martha Liddle, J.P., was the first person from Spennymoor to be awarded the M.B.E. 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. This factory made and marked cases but filling was carried out at the Royal Ordnance Factory Swynnerton, Staffs. MI Societe Meridionale dIndustrie, Robert Paulet & Cie ( formerly called Cartoucherie Leon Paulet), Marseille, FRANCE. 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. During the period ending with the 1914-18 war Kynoch, which by then was the largest of the British commercial ammunition manufacturers, owned rolling mills at Witton; at Lodge Road, Birmingham and at Eyre Street, Birmingham. Used the monogram 1942 to 1943. I worked at the Royal Ordnance factory at Spennymoor. It was changed to a limited company in 1884 as G. Kynoch & Co Ltd and by then was manufacturing metallic ammunition. 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 . Manufactured .303 cartridges from 1915 1918 in: Incendiary Buckingham (VII.B), B Mk 1, B Mk 2Z, SAAF Small Arms Factory Footscray, AUSTRALIA. The town was founded over 160 years ago. Over the next 2 years about 40000 was invested in re-equipping the factory[3]. He was in a parachute regiment when Italy capitulated. 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. Gateshead refugees arrived in Spennymoor. 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 trade depression of the late 19th century, however, caused its closure in 1882. The bullet to this round was designed to break up with a puff of smoke on impact with a target or the ground . 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. 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. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: KF or K Indian Government Ammunition Factory Kirkee (or Kirkee Arsenal), near Poona, INDIA. 1931 Road Tolls ceased at Page Bank Bridge. This is a list of Royal Ordnance Factories. 1941 Royal Ordnance Factory opens. Other methods include colouring of part or the whole of the cartridge case. They had a filling factory at Abbey Wood and later during the 1939-45 war a filling factory at Farnham. 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 ). 1986 Tudhoe Community Centre built. .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 2001 Memorial to two Hurricane pilots killed in aircrash at Tudhoe in 1942 unveiled at York Hill Cemetery. These appalling conditions continued into the 20th century and even by 1920 less than 10% of the town houses had water closets. Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and At the factory we made .303 and .5 cases and caps, as well as bullets. 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. In 1926 when Nobel Industries became part of the new Imperial Chemical Industries, the old Kynoch factory at Witton was retained as the ammunition centre as part of the Metal Group within ICI. Should the reader be aware of any omissions in this manufacturers listing then the author would be very pleased to hear from them. Known to have produced .303 cartridges 1914 1918 in: MAXIM Maxim Arms Co.,London, UNITED KINGDOM. 1787 Purchase of the powdermill at Waltham Abbey which was named the Royal Gunpowder Factory. ROF Steeton; SAA Factory No. Also manufactured Mk VI Dummy cartridges, SBR Sellier & Bellot, Riga, LATVIA. Production of ammunition ceased in 1944. Known to have produced .303 ball cartridges c 1934. Town Hall refurbished. It is known to have produced .303 cartridges in: Ball, Cordite Mk 2, Mk 2 Special, Mk 6 and Mk 7. Proof, Cordite Mk 1, Mk 2, Mk 3, Q Mk 3, Q Mk 4 and Q Mk 5, Tracer SPG(VII.G) Mk 1 and SPG(VII.G) Mk1Z, Tracer G Mk 1, G Mk 1 Special, G Mk 2, G Mk 3 and G Mk 4, Experimental steel anti fouling bulleted rounds, Experimental Armour Piercing Tracer (1917-18), Experimental Explosive, RTS and RTT Cartridges, Experimental Grenade Launching Cartridges. The arms factory was closed in 1987. Whitworth Park Golf Club (9 holes) opens. Nitro-cellulose filled .303 American WW1 Contract Pattern cartridges were produced during the period 1914 1917 as. 1807 Small arms manufacture moved to the Royal Manufactory of Small Arms at Lewisham. This was very interesting there of course was a special way of doing this that it opened properly when required. MEXICO Fabrica National de Munitions, Mexico City, MEXICO. 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. 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. 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. The back streets stand deep in filth and mud. Known to have manufactured nitro-cellulose loaded .303 cartridges in: Ball, L1A1 to British Government contract(1982-85). Known to have manufactured .303 cartridges in: MG / MF2 Small Arms Ammunition Factory No 2, Gordon Street, Footscray, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA. Its head office is at Glascoed. Similar jacketed hollow point bullets were used in the Mark IV and V rounds. 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. This powder charge being pressed into a pellet with both ends slightly rounded and pierced with a flash hole through the centre. K2 Imperial Chemical Industries Kynoch factory at Standish, near Wigan, Lancs, UNITED KINGDOM. Produced .303 Mk 7 ball ammunition in cases believed to be made by Eley. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded .303 cartridges in: y Toyokawa Naval Arsenal, JAPAN. There was no production of .303 ammunition in 1961. WCC Western Cartridge Co., East Alton, Ill., UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Small Arms Ammunition - This type of factory was, in essence, an Engineering factory which specialised in the production of small arms shell casings. 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 manufactured Black powder Ball Mk 2 .303 cartridges from 1891 1896. Servicesheld in Town Hall. Spennymoor became part of the South West Durham depressed area. Known to have produced .303 ball cartridges for export. Believed to have manufactured .303 ammunition as early as 1898 until 1918. 1906 Police Station opens. 1811 The Royal Small Arms Factory site at Enfield was purchased. 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. This is an insight into the Aycliffe Royal Ordnance Factory, ROF 59, (1941-1945) and the 'Aycliffe Angels'. 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. 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.; 1970 Moor Grange sheltered accommodation completed. This change was agreed in August 1915 and thus these sites became nominally part of the National Factory programme. Town Hall, U = Utah Ordnance Plant - Salt Lake City, Utah. 1966 Bus Station and Parkwood Precinct opened. EGYPT is known to have produced .303 ball ammunition at the Government Arsenal Shoubra, United Arab Republic and Factory No 10 at Alexandria, Egypt. SR = Royal Ordnance Factory - Spennymoor, United Kingdom. On British military contracts 1940-45 180 & 215 gr jacketed soft point sporting ammunition. 1973 Spennymoor Town Council created a Successor Council. 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. They used the MF monogram May 1926 to 1945 and the AF monogram from January 1924 to February 1925. World War II had diverse effects upon the town. Known to have manufactured .303 cartridges in: Ball, Nitro-cellulose Mk 7Z ( Late Pattern ), Blank, Nitro-cellulose L Mk 5Z ( Canadian Pattern ). Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and SR = Royal Ordnance Factory - Spennymoor, 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. . 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. 5. 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. A nursery school was opened in the park to look after children while mothers did war work. 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. Rough houses were built for the pit workers - houses with two rooms and a loft, more like. 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. DA Dominion Arsenal, Montreal, CANADA. Penny Rate Product 239. 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. I worked at the Royal Ordnance factory (ROF) at Spennymoor. 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. FC Federal Cartridge Co, Anoka, Minn., UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 01388 815276 Post-WWI Returned to lower production levels. Royal Small Arms Factory Factory No 2. 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. D, DF, N or S Indian Government Ammunition Factory, Dum Dum, Calcutta, INDIA. I listened to Vera Lynne and Tommy Handley who's catchphrase was 'Ta Ta for now (TTFN)'. It stands above the Wear Valley approximately seven miles south of Durham. The coal industry has been replaced by manufacturers of consumer goods, and factories of Electrolux, Thorn Lighting and Black and Decker were established. Download. 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. 1984 Middlestone Moor Community Centre built. Edward lll was otherwise engaged at Crecy in France at the time, but his Queen, Phillipa, with the Archbishop of York, the Bishops of Durham, Lincoln and Carlisle, and the Lords Neville and Percy and others marched North, and with an array of 16,000 men, moved along the ridge from Auckland to Merrington. those of the BBC. CHINA is known to have produced some 7.7mm rimmed ammunition for use in captured Japanese machine guns from 1945 onwards. 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 Badcock Armoury closed. Lost in the Blackout. Cases were made in Birmingham then assembled and loaded at the Abbey Wood Factory, next to Woolwich Arsenal. 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. 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. 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 . B,J,M or N Birmingham Metal and Munitions Co Ltd., Birmingham, UNITED KINGDOM. Population declines to 15,440.First Council houses erected on racecourse site. 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