This round had a nitro-cellulose powder charge with a 175 grain boat tailed, streamline, jacketed bullet having a muzzle velocity of 2550 feet per second. Engineering - This type of factory produced bomb and shell casings and other metal-based components for all types of munitions. Servicesheld in Town Hall. The cases were made by BSA for Maxim machine guns in the 1890s. 8 ROF Beech Hill, Wigan ROF Birtley. 1930 New Tivoli cinema opened at a cost of 15,000. 1962 Pavilions added to Merrington Lane playing fields. 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 . The propellant interests being concentrated mainly at Ardeer within the Nobel Division of ICI. This factory was also set up as part of the 1939-45 war emergency expansion plans. An era of prosperity dawned in the 1860s and 1870s when the miners were earning 1 per day. This company manufactured ammunition from an early stage, finally ceasing production in the late 1950s. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: Tracer G Mk 2,G Mk 3, G Mk 4, G Mk 5 and G Mk 6. TW = Twin Cities Ordnance Plant - Minneapolis, Minnesota. 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. 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. 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. 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. Call Us: 01388 815276 Known to have manufactured .303 cartridges in: GKB or K George Kynoch, Birmingham, UNITED KINGDOM. Wesleyan Church opened. Nothing could well exceed the nuisance attendant on the disposal of excrement and refuse in Spennymoor. 1912 Durham Road Higher Elementary School opened. K2 Imperial Chemical Industries Kynoch factory at Standish, near Wigan, Lancs, UNITED KINGDOM. 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). Birmingham Metal and Munitions had ceased manufacture of ammunition by 1920. 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. Penny Rate Product 303. Childrens play areas upgraded by the provision of safety surfacing at eight sites. The trade depression of the late 19th century, however, caused its closure in 1882. 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. It is known to have produced .303 cartridges in: Ball, Cordite Mk 2, Mk 2 Special, Mk 6 and Mk 7. The Spennymoor ammunition was filled at the Royal Ordnance Factory, Aycliffe, Durham. information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the Population 22,000. The Rise of Industry The Spennymoor ammunition was then filled at ROF Aycliffe. 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. Known to have produced .303 cartridges during the period 1940 1944 in: C-P Crompton Parkinson Ltd, Doncaster, Yorkshire, UNITED KINGDOM. World War II had diverse effects upon the town. Royal Navy Destroyer H.M.S. 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. This factory was set up as part of the 1939-1945 war emergency expansion plan. Incendiary B Mk 3, B Mk 4Z*, B Mk 6, B Mk 6Z. Small Arms Ammunition - This type of factory was, in essence, an Engineering factory which specialised in the production of small arms shell casings. Floral waistcoats and ribboned hats were worn on these highly colourful occasions. Gas Works opened for lighting in Spennymoor. 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. ROF Featherstone; Filling Factory No. HN Royal Ordnance Factory, Hirwaun, South Wales, UNITED KINGDOM. We had workers playtime during our half hour break. 1877 New iron Railway Bridge replaced the old wooden Bridge over the High Street. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: DC Defence Industries, Brownsburgh, Quebec, CANADA. We were chosen because we had produced the most cases in a certain time and had been neither late or absent. Used the monogram 1942 to 1945. Used on military .303 (7.7 x 56R) cartridges supplied to Egypt in the period 1948 1954. This page has been archived and is no longer updated. I was given a badge for helping to raise money for the war effort. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded .303 cartridges: Ball, Mk 7 for 1914 1917 military contracts, Ball, Mk 7Z ( American WW2 Contract Pattern ). 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. Known to have produced .303 cartridges with this headstamp April 1921 to December 1923, although some also produced in March 1924. During WW1 Greenwood & Batley are known to have produced in excess of 705 million .303 Mk 7 cartridges. Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. This factory was part of the 1939-45 war emergency expansion plan. This web publication contains 152,494 pages of 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. 1973 Spennymoor Town Council created a Successor Council. 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 company was formed in 1890 at Kings Norton, it owned its own rolling mills and had a loading plant at Abbey wood in Kent. 13 Oct 2022 - Notice to Royal Ordnance Pension Scheme ("The Scheme") Members. 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. Penny Rate Product 18,500. Made dummy drill rounds with a one piece tinplate case and bullet and having a crimped on base in 1915. SR = Royal Ordnance Factory - Spennymoor, United Kingdom. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded 7.7 x 56R ball ammunition which is interchangeable with the .303 cartridges. Royal Powder Mill Factory No 31. 1945 World War II ended. Spennymoor had elected Labour MPs for many years, but in recent times the area has become more marginal. Known to have produced .303 ball cartridges in 1924. 1953 St Pauls Church damaged by fire. Her advance guards clashed with some of Douglas men near Ferryhill and chased them back to the bridge at Croxdale (Sunderland Bridge). 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. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded .303 cartridges in: 180 gr jacketed soft point sporting ammunition, 150 gr jacketed soft point sporting ammunition. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: (The metal components for these rounds were manufactured by MH and MJ at Hendon). DC Dominion Cartridge Company which later became the Dominion Ammunition Division of Canadian Industries Ltd. Its head office is at Glascoed. The MG monogram was changed to MF in 1949 which was used until 1962. Royal Small Arms Factory Enfield Factory No 2. The Spennymoor Ammunition was filled at the Royal Ordnance Factory, Aycliffe, Durham. It became G. Kynoch & Co Ltd in 1884 and by then was manufacturing metallic ammunition. Used the monogram 1942 to 1943. Known to have produced .303 cartridges 1914 1918 in: MAXIM Maxim Arms Co.,London, UNITED KINGDOM. In 1930 the coke ovens which remained on the ironworks site were only working intermittently. Lost in the Blackout. Colour coding appears in several forms on small arms ammunition. Beretta Group owns now the Tikka arms brand. There was a glazeboard wad on top of the charge to protect the base of the bullet. 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. In addition there was a filling area not far away in the vicinity of Abbey Wood. After May 1918 the CAC monogram was used with two arrows . 1964 Black and decker open factory at Green Lane. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded .303 cartridges in: AE Arsenal do Ejercito, Lisbon, PORTUGAL. Known to have manufactured .303 cartridges in: MH Small Arms Ammunition Factory No 3, Hendon, AUSTRALIA. 1811 The Royal Small Arms Factory site at Enfield was purchased. Into the 20th Century Royal Ordnance Factory, Spennymoor - Hansard - UK Parliament Hansard record of the item : 'Royal Ordnance Factory, Spennymoor' on Thursday 31 May 1945. Cases were supplied by MJ, Ball Mk 7 (loaded into cases with BVI head stamp). This company was already in existence but unconnected with ammunition manufacture when the 1939 1945 war broke out. Steve 11-03-2014, 06:29 PM #3 lithoman UT = Utah Ordnance Plant - Salt Lake City, Utah. Town Hall refurbished. Band Stand refurbished to its former state. Town Hall, 33/4m Bessemer Park Estate completed. 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. 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. Jubilee Park new Bowling Green created. U or SAM South African Mint, Pretoria, SOUTH AFRICA. I was chosen along with 2 other girls to visit Goosepool Aerodrome (now Durham/Tees Valley International Airport), where the Canadian airmen were stationed. 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. The new St. Charles School opened. 1951 Population 19,740. There is, however, space for expansion and land is available on the Green Lane Industrial Estate. Low Spennymoor houses cleared. BPD Bombrini, Parodi et Delfino, Rome ITALY. Tudhoe football field created. Later, Binchester became one of the vills of the Earl of Northumberland who held it until 1420 when it passed to the Nevilles who finally forfeited it with other lands in 1569. ROF Queniborough; Filling Factory No. I worked at the Royal Ordnance factory (ROF) at Spennymoor. When U used with a diamond this indicates manufacture in a subsidiary factory at Kimberley. Policy. On nitro-cellulose loaded .303 Mk 7z Ball cartridges made by FNM of Moscavide, PORTUGAL. Single lineRailway Bridge built over High Street. RA Raufoss Ammunisjonsfabrikker, Raufoss, NORWAY. 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. These factories were given the designation Royal Ordnance Factories (ROF). Known to have manufactured .303 cartridges in: MG / MF2 Small Arms Ammunition Factory No 2, Gordon Street, Footscray, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA. VPT Valtion Patruunatehdas, Lapua, FINLAND. DA Dominion Arsenal, Montreal, CANADA. Smart and Brown opens on Ordnance Factory site. Martha Liddle, J.P., was the first person from Spennymoor to be awarded the M.B.E. After ROF I worked for C.I.E.M.E. Spennymoor, United Kingdom (1913-1945). A nursery school was opened in the park to look after children while mothers did war work. 1916 Town Hall built at a cost of 18,000. Produced .303 Mk 7 ball ammunition in cases believed to be made by Eley. 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. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: MS Explosives Factory, Salisbury, AUSTRALIA. 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. 1976 750,000 Spennymoor Recreation Centre opened. On top of these economic misfortunes came the terrible explosion at Tudhoe Colliery in 1882 when 37 lives were lost. Find out how you can use this. This distinction was abandoned in May 1920 and thereafter all ball rounds had the purple annulus. FN Fabrique National dArmes de Guerre, Herstal, BELGIUM. This factory was set up as part of the 1939-45 war emergency plans and produced its first complete .303 rounds in October 1940. The coal industry has been replaced by manufacturers of consumer goods, and factories of Electrolux, Thorn Lighting and Black and Decker were established. Known to have produced 7.7 x 56R ball cartridges, which are interchangeable with the .303 cartridge post 1961. It initially had a small boxer type primer and was officially designated Cartridge, S.A., Ball, Magazine Rifle, Mark 1.C. 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. 1869 Shaft sunk at Tudhoe Grange Colliery. P or PC Peters Cartridge Co., Kings Mills, Ohio, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Tracer, armour piercing and incendiary cartridges were adopted by the British Government during 1915, explosive bullets having been approved for service in 1916. Rough houses were built for the pit workers houses with two rooms and a loft, more like piggeries than human habitation according to Dodd. Population 16,369. Johnson, who made a fortune out of it. those of the BBC. After the war in 1918 Kynoch Ltd, in common with most other British small arms ammunition manufacturers, was merged into Explosives Trades Ltd, later to become Nobel Industries. 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 . 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. 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. Ammunition was made at Woolwich long before the adoption of the .303 cartridge in 1889. 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. Also manufactured Mk VI Dummy cartridges, SBR Sellier & Bellot, Riga, LATVIA. Factory in operation 1828 1919. A new 3-bedroom semi cost 3,375 to buy on private housing estate. RNRA Rhodesia National Rifle Association. These appalling conditions continued into the 20th century and even by 1920 less than 10% of the town houses had water closets. It was really pitiful, these lads had had a terrible time. On 2 January the majority were vested in the UK Government-owned company Royal Ordnance Plc together with 3 Agency-operated Factories, the Waltham Abbey south site and the Royal Small Arms Factory. This factory was part of the 1939-45 war emergency expansion plan. 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. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: KF or K Indian Government Ammunition Factory Kirkee (or Kirkee Arsenal), near Poona, INDIA. 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. 1942 Both pilots killed when two Hawker Hurricane aircraft collided and crashed at Tudhoe. 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. Grace's Guide To British Industrial History, https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/index.php?title=Royal_Ordnance&oldid=1277361, Creative ROF Spennymoor; SAA Factory No. 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. 1994 Town wins National Allotment Society Waterlow Trophy. information and 237,145 images on early companies, their products and the In addition to these plants the original cap production was maintained at Witton. The last .303 ball cartridges manufactured at Radway Green in 1973 were loaded with nitro-cellulose powder and not cordite, cordite having last been used for the .303 cartridge in the 1960s. .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 Next we went with the WAAFs to see how they packed parachutes for the boys. The arms factory was closed in 1987. Download. The Gordon Street Factory used the monogram MF2 for a short time during 1940. The arms factory was closed in 1987. ROF Blackpole; SAA Factory No. 1987 Town wins National Allotment Society Waterlow Trophy. UT = Utah Ordnance Plant - Salt Lake City, Utah. 1987 Middlestone Moor Community Centre extended. A or AI Artillerie Inrichtingen, Hembrug, NETHERLANDS. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded 7.7 x 56R ammunition, which is interchangeable with the .303 cartridge in: T.BLAND & SONS Commercial .303 ammunition loaded by T. Bland & Sons, London, UNITED KINGDOM in ball and sporting configurations. 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. Providing . Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: G, GB or GBF Greenwood and Batley, Leeds, UNITED KINGDOM. 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 run-down of the mining industry, however, was nevertheless a serious blow. In 1887, when they were renamed the Royal Ordnance Factories, control passed to the financial secretary's Civil Department, from which in 1899 they returned to the . 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). Spennymoor, and the surrounding settlements, have a long and varied history. Known to have produced nitro-cellulose loaded cartridges in: APX Atelier de Construction de Puteaux, FRANCE. M Nobel Explosives Ltd., Manchester, UNITED KINGDOM. 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 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. The origin of the name remains somewhat uncertain some believe it to be derived from the Latin Spina which means a thorn (possibly from the Roman influence at Binchester) and Mor which was the Anglo-Saxon word for a moor. There has been a film made about these men "The guinea pigs". 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. This company was formed in 1897 and was a wholly owned subsidiary of Nobels explosive company who also owned a further ammunition plant, fully acquired in 1907, at Waltham Abbey, Essex. Royal Small Arms Factory Enfield Factory No 2. 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. The latter resulted in colliery workers houses springing up on the main Durham road. 1759 Government purchase of the privately-owned gunpowder mill at Faversham and the establishment there of the Royal Powder Mill. 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. B,J,M or N Birmingham Metal and Munitions Co Ltd., Birmingham, UNITED KINGDOM. CAC Colonial Ammunition Co., Auckland, NEW ZEALAND. This factory made and marked cases but filling was carried out at the Royal Ordnance Factory Swynnerton, Staffs. Up to 1800 the moor remained largely barren and the few roads across it were dangerous. Archive List > United Kingdom > Wearside and County Durham, Submitted by Christine Rome at Spennymoor Library on behalf of Elizabeth Hodgson (ne Monaghan). 1880 Tudhoe Iron Works produced 17,000 tons of iron and 2,000 tons of steel. T = Tikkakoski Arsenal - Finland. In 1938 the .303 Mark VIIIZ round was approved to obtain greater effective range from the Vickers Medium Machine Gun. 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. Post-War: many of the factories were closed, although some were reopened for the Korean war. This factory is known to have produced .303 cartridges in: PS or S Pirotechnico Militar de Seville, SPAIN. 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. ROF Aycliffe; Filling Factory No. This page was last edited on 27 May 2022, at 11:53. 1906 Police Station opens. This company is believed to have manufactured .303 Ball, Blackpowder Mk 2 cartridges from 1890. 1695 Gunpowder was also stored at Upnor Castle (later the Upnor Armaments Supply Depot) from at least as early as 1695. Butchers Race, one of the Five Lanes which meet at Tudhoe Crossroads, was so named after this foray. It began production of .303 Ammunition in 1941 initially with the headstamp code of two arrows replacing these in 1942 with the code SR. We used to shelter under the stairs during air raids. Royal Ordnance Factories were for explosives manufacture, filling of munitions and engineering. The huge munitions factory employed some 17,000 . .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 Spennymoor, United Kingdom (1913-1945). Town wins award in Britain in Bloom Competition. 1968 Bessemer Park Housing commenced (1,009 houses). 1920 Durham County Water Board provides water supply. Known to have manufactured .303 cartridges in: K4 Imperial Chemical Industries Kynoch factory at Yeading, Hayes, Middlesex, UNITED KINGDOM. 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. Known to have produced .303 cartridges in: MJB Incendiary Annexe to MJ Hendon, AUSTRALIA. MI Societe Meridionale dIndustrie, Robert Paulet & Cie ( formerly called Cartoucherie Leon Paulet), Marseille, FRANCE. 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. Believed to have manufactured .303 ammunition as early as 1898 until 1918. Early site history and production [ edit] First World War [ edit] Later, effective tracer and incendiary composition operations were also carried out at Witton. 1890 Tudhoe Iron Works produced 50,000 tons of steel. 1929 Prince of Wales visits Spennymoor. 22. Population 19,073. ROF Blackpool; SAA Factory. The works then possessed the largest mill in Europe, capable of rolling plates up to 13 feet in width. KN Kings Norton Metal Co., Birmingham, UNITED KINGDOM. Do Hirtenberg Patronenfabrik factory at Dordrecht, NETHERLANDS. 1899 Control of the factories was returned to the Ordnance Department. 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