Ordnance Factory (ROF) Bishopton was a WW2 Ministry of Supply Explosive Factory. It is sited adjacent to the village of Bishopton in Renfrewshire, Scotland...
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Scotland Bishopton, Renfrewshire, a village Bishopton railway station, Renfrewshire ROF Bishopton, a former explosives factory at Bishopton, Renfrewshire...
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explosive manufacturing factory was once sited in Bishopton. The Royal Ordnance Factory Bishopton (ROF) was opened during World War II on farm land, acquired...
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with the closure of the last of the World War II cordite factories, ROF Bishopton. Triple-base propellant for UK service (for example, the 105 mm L118...
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sidings a few yards west from the Bishopton station. It crossed Ingleston Road via a gated level crossing entering the ROF site from the north. The link remained...
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production of solventless cordite for WW2 alongside R.O.F. (Royal Ordnance Factory) at Wrexham and Bishopton a new production site was urgently needed. (cordite...
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Propellant Factory, Caerwent (RNPF) ROF Bridgwater ROF Drigg ROF Irvine ROF Pembrey ROF Bishopton ROF Ranskill ROF Sellafield ROF Wrexham Reader, volume II, chapter...
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List of Royal Ordnance Factories (category Explosive ROFs)
Durham, England ROF Bishopton (3 factories) Bishopton, Renfrewshire, Scotland Explosive ROF ROF Blackburn Blackburn, Lancashire, England ROF Blackpole Worcester...
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Royal Ordnance Factory (section Location of the ROFs)
traverses between buildings. ROF Bishopton occupied over 2,000 acres (8.1 km2) and ROF Chorley was 900 acres (3.6 km2). Each ROF tended to be self-contained...
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000 people (four of these being the Royal Arsenal, ROF Bishopton, ROF Chorley and ROF Bridgend). ROF Chorley was the site where the bouncing bombs, designed...
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Caerwent Training Area (category Explosive ROFs)
armed services should be concentrated at the Royal Ordnance Factory at ROF Bishopton. The decision to close RNPF Caerwent was announced on 25 March 1965...
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remaining United Kingdom government-owned Royal Ordnance Factories (abbreviated ROFs) which manufactured explosives, ammunition, small arms including the Lee–Enfield...
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by special solvent-free cordite, which was initially manufactured at ROF Bishopton in Scotland; in December 1940, a new propellant factory was commissioned...
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Gryfe near Bridge of Weir. The river also supplied process water to ROF Bishopton; the water was taken near where the Linwood Moss road joins the Houston...
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the production of Cordite SC, ROF Bishopton, a big new factory was built at Bishopton in Scotland and in November 1940 ROF Ranskill was commissioned at...
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tributary of the Gryffe, Houston Burn, runs through the village of Houston. ROF Bishopton, a Royal Ordnance Factory surrounding Dargavel House currently operated...
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sewage works Harold Ffestiniog Railway 1973 7330 4wDM 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) ROF Bishopton Scruffy Almond Valley Light Railway 1961 7375 4wDM 2 ft (610 mm) National...
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Carstairs House Tramway (defunct) Hagdale Chromate Railway (defunct) ROF Bishopton (standard-gauge lines also present) (defunct) Wales Crickheath Tramway...
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Waltham Abbey Royal Gunpowder Mills (category Explosive ROFs)
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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relatives in Germany. Dargavel House and its grounds were later used as ROF Bishopton, an extensive munitions production facility which operated from the...
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Chilmark depot railway RAF Fauld Royal Arsenal Railway RNAD Broughton Moor ROF Bishopton Trecwn Railway RNAD Dean Hill Imphal Barracks in York These factories...
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Munitions production: HM Factory, Gretna Nobel Industries (Scotland) ROF Bishopton ROF Dalmuir P. F. Tytler, History of Scotland, Volume 2 (London: Black...
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World War I station; with a matching platform in what was to become ROF Bishopton. A number of earthworks are also visible from the train, representing...
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production was spread around a large number of government-run sites like ROF Bishopton near Glasgow and agency industrial works like the ICI explosive works...
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rock near Ferryhill and a 75-foot (23 m) high embankment at Whitton or Bishopton Beck. With the main line built between Simpasture and Samphire Batts,...
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unable to open at this stage, due to serious difficulties in forming the Bishopton tunnel and the rock cuttings approaching it, and it was not until 31 March...
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