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Could I have your thoughts on this.
Ofcourse I am happy with the previous answers given, but wasn't happy about V.A.N is Vickers&Armstrong Bootle Cumberland... Where is the N for?
Which lead me through searching the national archives, the interweb, which lead me to find out that Bootle was a major shipyard. I am unable to find any ammunition filling factory associated with Bootle, Cumberland.
What I did find was: Armstrong Whitworth's munitions factory in Newcastle Upon Tyne (Lemington point). There was a major filling facility, nicknamed Canary Island.
As this location seems to be more obvious than Bootle shipyard. It does seem to explain the N. Please share your thoughts.
Robert
Ofcourse I am happy with the previous answers given, but wasn't happy about V.A.N is Vickers&Armstrong Bootle Cumberland... Where is the N for?
Which lead me through searching the national archives, the interweb, which lead me to find out that Bootle was a major shipyard. I am unable to find any ammunition filling factory associated with Bootle, Cumberland.
What I did find was: Armstrong Whitworth's munitions factory in Newcastle Upon Tyne (Lemington point). There was a major filling facility, nicknamed Canary Island.
As this location seems to be more obvious than Bootle shipyard. It does seem to explain the N. Please share your thoughts.
Robert
Robert,
You could be right but the address that Tim and I gave you is from 'official' lists of monograms. In my case this was from two lists. It could be that the Bootle address was the 'HQ' address to which contracts etc., were sent. Many firms used to have a HQ office address (typically in a major city) nowhere near the factory. If I can locate the Vickers history I will see if it makes any reference to VAN etc.
You could be right but the address that Tim and I gave you is from 'official' lists of monograms. In my case this was from two lists. It could be that the Bootle address was the 'HQ' address to which contracts etc., were sent. Many firms used to have a HQ office address (typically in a major city) nowhere near the factory. If I can locate the Vickers history I will see if it makes any reference to VAN etc.
Robert,
I initially thought the same. However, there are two places called Bootle - one that's in Liverpool (or adjacent to) and where the docks are, the other, where the ordnance factory was is a short way up the coast in what was Cumberland and is now called Cumbria. There were three ordnance factories in close proximity. An explosives factory at Sellafied, run by Courtaulds. This, after the war became the site of one of the UK's first atomic power stations and was renamed Windscale to be latter renamed Sellafield. Seven miles down the coast was Drigg, another explosives factory run by Vickers. Then another seven miles down the coast was Bootle, as previously stated a filling factory run by Vickers.
The monogram for Drigg is D.G.
http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1947/apr/03/unemployment-south-cumberland
TimG
I initially thought the same. However, there are two places called Bootle - one that's in Liverpool (or adjacent to) and where the docks are, the other, where the ordnance factory was is a short way up the coast in what was Cumberland and is now called Cumbria. There were three ordnance factories in close proximity. An explosives factory at Sellafied, run by Courtaulds. This, after the war became the site of one of the UK's first atomic power stations and was renamed Windscale to be latter renamed Sellafield. Seven miles down the coast was Drigg, another explosives factory run by Vickers. Then another seven miles down the coast was Bootle, as previously stated a filling factory run by Vickers.
The monogram for Drigg is D.G.
http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1947/apr/03/unemployment-south-cumberland
TimG
After again some research, not yet 100% clear as we are not the only one's who question the monogram V.A.N.
V.A.N. can be found as a gunmarking from Vickers Armstrong: http://www.vickersgun.com/markings.htm
They seem to refer to the national shell filling factory at Chilwell very near to Nottingham, Nottinghamshire.
Looks like this being the closest hit yet?
Robert
V.A.N. can be found as a gunmarking from Vickers Armstrong: http://www.vickersgun.com/markings.htm
They seem to refer to the national shell filling factory at Chilwell very near to Nottingham, Nottinghamshire.
Looks like this being the closest hit yet?
Robert