The Royal Ordnance Factory ROF Ranskill was a United Kingdom Ministry of Supply, World War II, Explosive ROF. It was built to manufacture cordite and the site was located adjacent to what is now known as the East Coast Main Line railway at Ranskill, Nottinghamshire, just …

In 1939 to increase the production of solventless cordite for WW2 alongside R.O.F. (Royal Ordinance Factory) at Wrexham and Bishopton a new production site was urgently needed. (cordite is a family of smokeless propellants developed and produced in the UK since 1889 to replace gunpowder as a projectile propellant).

Former site of ROF (Royal Ordnance Factory) Ranskill, a factory created by the Ministry of Works in 1939 to produce explosive charges and propellants for WW2. At its peak, the factory...

This is a list of Royal Ordnance Factories. Cocroft, Wayne D., (2000). Dangerous Energy: The archaeology of gunpowder and military explosives manufacture, Swindon: English Heritage, ISBN 1-85074-718-0. Kohan, C. M., (1952). Works and Buildings: (History of the Second World War. United Kingdom Civil Series). London: HMSO & Longmans, Green and Co.

The Royal Ordnance Factory (ROF) Ranskill was a United Kingdom Ministry of Supply, World War II, Explosive ROF. It was built to manufacture cordite and the site was located adjacent to what is now known as the East Coast Main Line railway at Ranskill, Nottinghamshire, just …

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 were engineering, filling and explosives, and these were dispersed across the country for security reasons.

Apr 23, 2014 · Located where the Industrial Estate is today, during the Second World War, Wrexham’s ROF facility made cordite, an explosive propellant for shells. ROF Bishopton, ROF Ranskill and ROF Sellafield being the three other propellant factories. The Wrexham site employed 13,000 workers.

ROF Cordite factory built in 1942. Ceased production in 1945 and was kept on care and maintenance until 1975. It is now used as the Daneshill Waste Disposal site.

Mar 25, 2014 · Following on from the village meeting with John Mann MP on the 20th March 2014 when the question of the Royal Ordnance Factory (ROF) on the outskirts of Sutton was raised, we’ve done some digging and come up with a bit of information on the subject.

The Royal Ordnance Factory ROF Ranskill was a United Kingdom Ministry of Supply, World War II, Explosive ROF. It was built to manufacture cordite and the site was located adjacent to what is now known as the East Coast Main Line railway at Ranskill, Nottinghamshire, just …