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Can anyone please tell me what the W.50 wooden ammunition box contained? My example has the additional markings II N and came from the Royal Ordnance Factory, Bridgend.
ROF Bridgend was one of our largest filling factories. The workforce has been quoted as 40,000 but I think this figure includes Brackla and Waterton that were satellites, Brackla effectively bordered with Bridgend. Bridgend filled stores for all three services, however those listed below are joint or Navy specific.
Cordite Bags & Pellets
RD202 Fuze Powder
Detonators e.g. The 5 grain A.S.A detonator used in most artillery fuzes
Tubes, percussion & electric
Primers
40mm Bofors
2 Pr
Initiators
No. 243 Fuze (Navy 2 Pr)
Fuze filling (igniferous)
Life Saving Rockets
(In relation to the 40mm and 2 Pr it is not specified if they just filled the projectiles and/or the whole round).
Some of the items are far too large to fit your box, but it may well have contained their component parts.
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