The Elswick Ordnance Company (sometimes referred to as Elswick Ordnance Works, but usually as "EOC") was a British armaments manufacturing company of the...
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Armstrong Whitworth (redirect from Elswick Ordnance)
Siddeley and became a separate entity. The Elswick Ordnance Company (sometimes referred to as Elswick Ordnance Works, but usually as "EOC") was originally...
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Elswick, Saskatchewan, a ghost town in Canada Elswick (automobile), an English automobile Elswick Ordnance Company, part of Armstrong Whitworth This disambiguation...
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half-sister Furious to carry an even bigger gun. The Elswick Ordnance Company was the only company capable of manufacturing such a large gun and began...
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wire-wound naval guns designed and manufactured by Elswick Ordnance Company to equip ships that the parent company Armstrong Whitworth built and/or armed for...
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gun were various similar naval guns designed and manufactured by Elswick Ordnance Company to equip ships that Armstrong-Whitworth built and/or armed for...
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was designed by and manufactured mainly by Armstrong's ordnance branch, Elswick Ordnance Company. It was intended for the Royal Navy's Royal Sovereign-class...
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Armstrong and manufactured in England beginning in 1855 by the Elswick Ordnance Company and the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich. Such guns involved a built-up...
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Estonian Orthodox Church (disambiguation) Economy of Communion Elswick Ordnance Company, a defunct British armaments manufacturer Emergency operations...
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BL 60-pounder gun (category Elswick Ordnance Company)
primarily Mark I guns produced by the Elswick Ordnance Company. Their acquisition was reported in the US Army Ordnance Department's May 1920 Handbook of Artillery:...
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Kingdom Elswick Ordnance Company 15 made; 2 survive 432 432 mm (17 in) guns Naval gun (?)1877 (?) United Kingdom (?)Elswick Ordnance Company 420 Big Bertha...
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The BL 6 inch gun Mk V was an early Elswick Ordnance Company breech-loading naval gun originally designed to use the old gunpowder propellants. They were...
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EOC 4-inch 50 caliber was a British naval gun designed by the Elswick Ordnance Company for export customers in the years before World War I that armed...
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40 caliber guns were a family of related guns designed by the Elswick Ordnance Company and produced by Armstrong Whitworth in the 1890s for export customers...
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The RML 7-inch Armstrong Gun was produced by William Armstrong's Elswick Ordnance Company. In 1859 the United Kingdom adopted rifled breechloading guns,...
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design a new piece of artillery. Production started in 1855 at the Elswick Ordnance Company and the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich. His "Armstrong screw" breech...
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originated as a 4.7 in (120 mm) 45-calibre naval gun designed by the Elswick Ordnance Company for export customers and known as the Pattern Y. The Royal Navy...
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protégé. In 1864 the Elswick Ordnance Company was merged with Armstrong's original company to form Sir W G Armstrong and Company. George Rendel was one...
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unfounded. In 1864 the two companies, W. G. Armstrong & Company and Elswick Ordnance Company merged to form Sir W. G. Armstrong & Company. Armstrong had resigned...
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muzzle-loading (RML) gun made by Elswick Ordnance Company, the armaments division of the British manufacturing company Armstrong Whitworth, owned by William...
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EOC 12-inch L/23.5 (section Tested near Elswick)
experimental breechloading gun designed and manufactured by the Elswick Ordnance Company also known as Armstrong. The gun was made to profit from recent...
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for defence against torpedo boats. It was produced for export by Elswick Ordnance Company (Mk I) and Vickers, Sons and Maxim (Mk II). In Royal Navy service...
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of related 8 in (200 mm) 40 caliber naval guns designed by the Elswick Ordnance Company and manufactured by Armstrong Whitworth for export customers before...
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Artillery (section Types of ordnance)
design a new piece of artillery. Production started in 1855 at the Elswick Ordnance Company and the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich, and the outcome was the revolutionary...
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shells much more rapidly than an older weapon. For instance, an Elswick Ordnance Company 4.7-inch gun fired 10 rounds in 47.5 seconds in 1887, almost eight...
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and manufactured by Elswick Ordnance Company to equip ships they built and/or armed for several countries before World War I. Elswick supplied later, more...
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Arms industry (redirect from Defense company)
needed] In 1854, the British government awarded a contract to the Elswick Ordnance Company to supply the latest loading artillery pieces. This galvanized...
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than the Woolwich gun. However, in the end, the designers of the Elswick Ordnance Company (EOC) proved to have made the best design. EOC sold at least one...
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QF 18-pounder gun (redirect from British Ordnance QF 18 pdr)
Vickers and Woolwich Ordnance factory. During the First World War, these were joined by Beardmore, the Elswick Ordnance Company and, in the US, Bethlehem...
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design a new piece of artillery. Production started in 1855 at the Elswick Ordnance Company and the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich. The piece was rifled, which...
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