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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EOC 12-inch 45-calibre naval gun (category Elswick Ordnance Company)
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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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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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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BL 18-inch Mk I naval gun (category Elswick Ordnance Company)
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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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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100-ton gun (category Elswick Ordnance Company)
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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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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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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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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1920 United Kingdom Elswick Ordnance Company 457.2 BL 18 inch Mk I naval gun Naval gun 1916 United Kingdom Elswick Ordnance Company 457 18"/48 caliber...
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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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EOC 14-inch 45-calibre naval gun (category Elswick Ordnance Company)
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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EOC 10-inch 45-calibre naval gun (category Elswick Ordnance Company)
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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QF 12-pounder 12 cwt naval gun (category Elswick Ordnance Company)
Lady Meux, and were equipped with proper field carriages by the Elswick Ordnance Company in Newcastle and sent to South Africa. Perhaps uniquely, the guns...
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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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Armstrong Whitworth 12-inch 40-calibre naval gun (category Elswick Ordnance Company)
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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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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15 cm/45 41st Year Type was a British naval gun designed by the Elswick Ordnance Company for export in the years before World War I that armed warships...
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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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guns at Woolwich, Armstrong's Elswick Ordnance Company in Newcastle was merged back into the Armstrong company. Elswick also continued to produce heavy...
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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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QF 4.7-inch Mk I – IV naval gun (category Elswick Ordnance Company)
slightly lighter. The guns were designed and manufactured by the Elswick Ordnance Company, part of Armstrong Whitworth. They were developed to exploit the...
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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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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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RBL 40-pounder Armstrong gun (category Elswick Ordnance Company)
were produced at both the Royal Gun Factory in Woolwich, and the Elswick Ordnance Company. Like other early Armstrong guns they were rifled on a polygroove...
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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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adopted by the Royal Navy as the Ordnance QF 3 pounder Hotchkiss, built under licence by the Elswick Ordnance Company. By the middle of World War I the...
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RBL 7-inch Armstrong gun (category Elswick Ordnance Company)
production cost 1859–1862; £650 Elswick Ordnance (Armstrongs) production cost 1862-3. Report of the Select Committee on Ordnance 1862. The gun was not sold...
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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 breech loading rifled artillery pieces. This...
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