Royal Ordnance Factory (ROF) Leeds, first opened as a munitions factory in December 1915 and opened as an ROF in January 1936, was one of a number of Royal Ordnance Factories created at the start of the Second World War.
Royal Ordnance Factory (ROF) Leeds, first opened as a munitions factory in December 1915 and opened as an ROF in January 1936, was one of a number of...
March 1987 valuing ROFLeeds at £15.2 million. Vickers became Alvis Vickers and, in 2004, became part of BAE Systems, and the Leeds factory was closed...
Reconnaissance (Wheeled) (CVR(W)) was a 4 × 4 armoured car manufactured by ROFLeeds, deployed by the British Army as a replacement for the Ferret scout car...
had been shipped overseas. In the Second World War, the factory became ROFLeeds, and postwar manufactured the Centurion tank. In 1925 the Five Sisters...
(ROF). The Challenger 1 entered service with the British Army in 1983 and production ceased in 1990 at a cost of around £2 million each. In 1986, ROF Leeds...
Production of the armour began in 1985 at the Royal Ordnance Factory Leeds (ROFLeeds) and fitting began in 1986. Vehicles located in the UK were fitted...
Royal Ordnance Factory (ROF) Nottingham opened in 1936 in The Meadows, Nottingham, United Kingdom. It was one of a number of Royal Ordnance Factories...
Loidis, from which Leeds, Yorkshire derives its name, was anciently a forested area of the Celtic kingdom of Elmet. The settlement certainly existed at...
Barnbow Munitions Factory, which later became ROF Barnbow. The plant employed 16,000 workers, from Leeds, Selby, Wakefield, Tadcaster and Wetherby and...
Leeds railway station (also known as Leeds City railway station) is the mainline railway station serving the city centre of Leeds in West Yorkshire, England...
of Leeds metropolitan borough, West Yorkshire, England. The estate occupies the major part of the site of a former Royal Ordnance Factory (ROF), ROF Thorp...
Barnbow munitions works and ROF Thorp Arch near Wetherby adapted their output for war work providing likely raid targets. Leeds had taken precautions, including...
collection was moved to ROF Nottingham, which has since closed. The collection is now held at the Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds. Local government boundary...
was known as a Royal Filling Factory (RFF), or a Royal Ordnance Factory (ROF). These were all part of the Royal Ordnance Factory organisation, owned by...
"Uninformative Feedback and Risk Taking" (PDF). Review of Finance. doi:10.1093/rof/rfy022. "10 фактов о белорусском миллионере, ведущем переговоры о покупке...
lighter stock. Rofsten Developed at the Royal Ordnance Factory in Fazakerley (ROF Fazakerley), the Rofsten was an odd Sten prototype with a redesigned magazine...
(1918–1919). ROF = Royal Ordnance Factory. SAA = Small Arms Ammunition Factory (1940–1946). /|\ (used 1940–1941) – ROF Radway Green SAA (ROF 13). After...
or three men. This type of pillbox is probably the most at risk as former ROF sites are being redeveloped for housing and industry; approximately 30 still...
Arch and HMP Rudgate on 1 April 1995; both built in 1965, on the site of ROF Thorp Arch. The amalgamation of two neighbouring establishments was an historic...
Establishment at Aldermaston (including the Royal Ordnance Factories at ROF Burghfield and ROF Cardiff), as well as seven other research establishments. They included...
Runshaw College had also expanded into the former administration site of ROF Chorley and was using, amongst others, the main administration building....
part of BAE Systems and had an "ammunitions storage facility" and part of ROF Chorley. Although the base was closed in 1990s some planning applications...
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