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This is a list of Royal Ordnance Factories. Name Location Type Number Royal Arsenal Factory No. 1: Woolwich, London, England: No. 1
The first Indian ordnance factory can trace its origins back to the year 1712 when the Dutch Ostend Company established a Gun Powder Factory in Ichhapur. [25] In 1787, another gunpowder factory was established at Ichapore ; it began production in 1791, and the site was later used as a rifle factory, beginning in 1904.
Prior to the 1930s, Britain's ordnance manufacturing capability had been concentrated within the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich.In the late nineteenth century, the term 'Royal Ordnance Factories' began to be used collectively of the manufacturing departments of the Arsenal, principally the Royal Laboratory, Royal Gun Factory and Royal Carriage Works, which, though they shared the same site, operated ...
Bangladesh Ordnance Factories: Bangladesh Machine Tools Factory: Dockyard and Engineering Works: Khulna Shipyard: Chittagong Dry Dock: Belgium: Forges de Zeebrugge: Herstal Group: John Cockerill: Bolivia: Fabrica Boliviana de Munición (FBM) Brazil: Arsenal de Marinha do Rio de Janeiro (AMRJ) Avibras Indústria Aeroespacial S/A (Avibras)
Ruddington Ordnance & Supply Depot was a Royal Ordnance Factory filling and storage facility, commissioned in 1940 and built during World War II by the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence (MoD). [1] It was located to the south of Ruddington , Nottinghamshire , and took 18 months to build.
The problems associated with ROF Leeds were solved when Royal Ordnance agreed the sale of the factory and intellectual property rights of the Challenger tanks to Vickers plc on 4 October 1986, the final agreement was signed on 31 March 1987 valuing ROF Leeds at £15.2 million.
The Newport Chemical Depot, previously known as the Wabash River Ordnance Works and the Newport Army Ammunition Plant, was a 6,990-acre (28.3 km 2) bulk chemical storage and destruction facility that was operated by the United States Army. It is located near Newport, in west central Indiana, thirty-two miles north of Terre Haute.
Munitions India Limited (MIL) is an Indian state-owned defence company, headquartered in Pune, India, established in 2021 as part of the restructuring and corporatisation of the Ordnance Factory Board into seven different Public Sector Undertakings.