• is a list of Royal Ordnance Factories. Filling Factories in the United Kingdom Cocroft, Wayne D., (2000). Dangerous Energy: The archaeology of gunpowder...
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    Royal Ordnance Factories (ROFs) were munitions factories run by the UK government during and after the Second World War. The three main types of factories...
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  • until then were the remaining United Kingdom government-owned Royal Ordnance Factories (abbreviated ROFs) which manufactured explosives, ammunition, small...
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  • body of Indian Ordnance and its administration civil service, Indian Ordnance Factories Service (IOFS). The DOO(C&S) earlier known as Ordnance Factory Board...
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    The Pakistan Ordnance Factories (POF) is a major firearms and a defence contractor headquartered in Wah Cantt, Punjab, Pakistan. Described as "the largest...
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  • ROF Leeds (category Royal Ordnance Factories in England)
    number of Royal Ordnance Factories created at the start of the Second World War. ROF Engineering Factory opened as National Filling Factory No. 1 (Barnbow)...
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    successful tank gun. It is a 105 mm L/52 rifled design by the Royal Ordnance Factories, intended for use in armoured fighting vehicles, replacing the...
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    Ordnance Canal. Staff from the Royal Arsenal helped design, and in some cases managed the construction of, many of the new Royal Ordnance Factories (ROFs)...
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  • The Indian Ordnance Factories Service (IOFS) is a civil service of the Government of India. IOFS officers are Gazetted (Group A) defence-civilian officers...
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    were produced by 2005. The list price was US$227,000 in 1990. The L11 was developed by Britain's Royal Ordnance Factories to equip the Chieftain tank...
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    Royal Ordnance Factories, but were not part of that organisation. The Ministry of Supply was also responsible for the labour force of these factories...
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    Royal Ordnance L9 is a British short-barrelled 165 mm (6.5 in) gun used for combat engineering, particularly the demolition of defences. Initially called...
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    Filling Factory. In World War II, a filling factory belonging to the Ministry of Supply was known as a Royal Filling Factory (RFF), or a Royal Ordnance Factory...
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  • ROF Thorp Arch (category Royal Ordnance Factories in England)
    53.916; -1.319 ROF Thorp Arch was one of sixteen Second World War, UK government-owned Royal Ordnance Factory, which produced munitions by "filling"...
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    installed in the turrets of Challenger 2 main battle tanks. It is an improved production model of the Royal Ordnance L11 series of rifled tank guns. Challenger...
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  • ROF Patricroft (category Royal Ordnance Factories in England)
    story of the Royal Ordnance Factories, 1939 - 48. London: His Majesty's Stationery Office. List of Royal Ordnance Factories Royal Ordnance Factory Link...
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  • ROF Nottingham (category Royal Ordnance Factories in England)
    Royal Ordnance Factory (ROF) Nottingham opened in 1936 in The Meadows, Nottingham, United Kingdom. It was one of a number of Royal Ordnance Factories...
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    The Royal Army Ordnance Corps (RAOC) was a corps of the British Army. At its renaming as a Royal Corps in 1918 it was both a supply and repair corps. In...
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    ROF Bishopton (category Royal Ordnance Factories in Scotland)
    The Royal Ordnance Factory (ROF) Bishopton was a WW2 Ministry of Supply Explosive Factory. It is sited adjacent to the village of Bishopton in Renfrewshire...
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    the Royal Aircraft Factory. It was also built under contract by Austin Motors, Daimler, Standard Motors, Siddeley-Deasy and the Coventry Ordnance Works...
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  • Birmingham had many armaments factories, with aircraft and automotive factories; it began on 9 August 1940 Bombing of Cardiff; Cardiff was a relatively...
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    Scotland, three co-located factories at ROF Bishopton, to Wales, ROF Wrexham, and to the North East, ROF Ranskill. The Royal Gunpowder Mills finally closed...
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    officers Royal Ordnance Factories Ordnance Survey Ordnance yards and other facilities, including Gunpowder magazines Tower of London, headquarters of the Board...
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    and Weirs in Glasgow were some of the most significant. The various Royal Ordnance factories produced most of the ordnance components. In Canada, Sorel...
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  • for high explosives were limited to the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich, and the facilities of the Elswick Ordnance Company at Derwenthaugh and Lemington Point...
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    times, the Royal Air Force, the British Army, and foreign and Commonwealth forces). They were sister depots of Royal Naval Cordite Factories, Royal Naval Torpedo...
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  • INSAS rifle (category CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list)
    Establishment and manufactured by the Ordnance Factories Board at its various factories. It was the standard infantry weapon of the Indian Armed Forces for almost...
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    The Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.12 was a British single-seat aeroplane of The First World War designed at the Royal Aircraft Factory. It was essentially...
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  • munitions supply, contracts and inspection, and for the Royal Ordnance Factories passed to the Ministry of Munitions, and that for munitions design, pattern...
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  • manufacturing plants in Chennai, India. The first Royal Enfield motorcycle was built in 1901 by The Enfield Cycle Company of Redditch, Worcestershire, England, which...
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