Coventry Ordnance Works was a British manufacturer of heavy guns particularly naval artillery jointly owned by Cammell Laird & Co of Sheffield and Birkenhead...
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Reginald Bacon (section Coventry Ordnance Works)
Naval Ordnance. He had been offered the appointment of managing director of the Coventry Ordnance Works (COW). During his time there, the Coventry works manufactured...
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COW 37 mm gun (redirect from Coventry Ordnance Works 37 mm cannon)
service during the Second World War as an anti-armour weapon. Coventry Ordnance Works had been set up in 1905 by a consortium of British shipbuilding...
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to acquire ownership of: Coventry Ordnance Works of Coventry, which retained a separate identity, and their ordnance works at Scotstoun which was later...
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BL 15-inch howitzer (category Coventry Ordnance Works)
The Ordnance BL 15-inch howitzer was developed by the Coventry Ordnance Works late in 1914 in response to the success of its design of the 9.2-inch siege...
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the Coventry Syndicate, a consortium of the shipbuilders Cammell Laird, Fairfields, John Brown and the armament company Coventry Ordnance Works, for...
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Austin Motors, Daimler, Standard Motors, Siddeley-Deasy and the Coventry Ordnance Works. Intended as a replacement for the vulnerable B.E.2, the R.E.8...
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turned to war production purposes, with industries such as the Coventry Ordnance Works assuming the role of one of the leading munition centres in the...
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QF 4.5-inch howitzer (category Coventry Ordnance Works)
trial equipments from ordnance factories, Armstrong, Vickers and the Coventry Ordnance Works (a joint venture by several Coventry engineering companies)...
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additional machinery and equipment. In 1905 Brown's established the Coventry Ordnance Works joint venture with Yarrow Shipbuilders and others. In 1909 the...
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