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ROYAL ORDNANCE FACTORIES
I have just brought a lapel badge for the ROYAL ORDNANCE FACTORY No 14 (number on rear 765) which I have googled and come up with ROF No 14 Ruddington in Nottinghamshire. On a dealers site, Sa*** Bos*** badges she shows it as ROF No 14 ROTHERHAM in Yorkshire.
Could any forum member confirm which is correct for me please?? The seller could not id the factory and it is a button hole type.
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Twenty World War II Filling Factories were planned, but only 16 were built:
ROF Chorley, (Filling Factory No. 1); ROF Bridgend, (Filling Factory No. 2). ROF Glascoed, (Filling Factory No. 3). ROF Hereford, (Filling Factory No. 4) (This was the re-opened World War I National Filling Factory). ROF Swynnerton (Filling Factory No. 5). ROF Risley, (Filling Factory No. 6). ROF Kirkby, (Filling Factory No. 7). ROF Aycliffe, (Filling Factory No. 8). ROF Thorpe Arch (Filling Factory No. 9). ROF Queniborough, (Filling Factory No. 10). ROF Brackla, (Filling Factory No. 11). ROF Swindon (Wootton Bassett), (Factory No. 12). * ROF Macclesfield, (Factory No. 13). * ROF Ruddington, (Filling Factory No. 14). ROF Walsall, (Filling Factory No. 15). ROF Elstow, (Filling Factory No. 16). ROF Featherstone, (Filling Factory No. 17). ROF Burghfield, (Filling Factory No. 18) (later part of the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE)). ROF Tutbury, (Factory No. 19) * ROF Northampton, (Factory No. 20) * (Asterisked factories Nos. 12, 13, 19 and 20 were planned, numbers assigned, but not built.) |
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Mike, thanks for this, I already have this list. Ruddington is shown as ROF No 14 but Sa*** Bos*** on her badge dealer site shows it as ROTHERHAM.
I have contacted the Ruddington parish council and they have sent me a link to ROF No 14 Ruddington so I am happy to name my badge as so. Here is the link if anyone is interested:- http://www.ruddington-history.org.uk...ry/default.htm Quote:
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ROF No 13 Radway Green Cheshire(button hole), ROF No 19 Poole, Dorset (pin back) and seen ROF No 20 Blackpole, Worcestershire. My list shows some differences:- ROF 1 CHORLEY ROF 2 BRIDGEND ROF 3 GLASCOED ROF 4 BLACKBURN Lancashire# ROF 5 SWYNNERTON ROF 6 RISLEY ROF 7 KIRKBY ROF 8 FAZAKERLEY, Liverpool ROF 9 LEEDS ROF 10 QUENIBOROUGH ROF 11 BRACKLA ROF 12 ROF 13 RADWAY GREEN Cheshire# ROF 14 RUDDINGTON ROF 15 ROF 16 ELSTOW Bedford ROF 17 FEATHERSTONE ROF 18 BURGHFIELD ROF 19 POOLE Dorset pin back# ROF 20 BLACKPOLE Worcestershire gm ROYAL ARSENAL Woolwich pin back # ROYAL ARSENAL Woolwich button hole# ROYAL ARSENAL Woolwich bze ROYAL ARSENAL Woolwich (brooched) ROYAL SMALL ARMS FACTORY Enfield COVENTRY ORDNANCE WORKS# COVENTRY ORDNANCE WORKS(var) Jerry.
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JERRY ROYAL ENGINEERS/BRITISH ARMY CORPS & SERVICES/BRITISH LEGION/ROYAL BRITISH LEGION (see albums) Last edited by engr9266; 22-01-14 at 01:22 PM. |
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Hi Jerry
Just out of curiousity was the 'Poole' ROF located at Holton Heath, near Wareham? In the 70's my dad worked at an EMI factory on the former Admiralty ordnance site there. Graham
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As a matter of interest Radway Green ( No.13 ) is at Alsager which is considerably nearer Crewe than it is to Macclesfield.
P.B.
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I have only just joined this group so apologies if you already know all this. |
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The Radway Green factory is till in production as part of BAe although it's much smaller than it was.
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All the best Graham
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