UK World War II Royal Ordnance Factory, Filling Factories
Some of these Filling Factories were temporary "war duration" only factories and they closed after the end of World War II. Other Filling Factories were designed to be permanent and to remain open after the War. However only ROF Glascoed is still open and is now part of BAE Systems.
Twenty World War II Filling Factories were planned, but only 16 were built. The two largest UK Filling Factories were:
- ROF Chorley, (Filling Factory No. 1);
- ROF Bridgend, (Filling Factory No. 2).
The other filling factories were:
- ROF Glascoed, (Filling Factory No. 3).
- ROF Hereford, (Filling Factory No. 4) (This was the re-opened World War I National Filling Factory).
- ROF Swynnerton (Filling Factory No. 5).
- ROF Risley, (Filling Factory No. 6).
- ROF Kirkby, (Filling Factory No. 7).
- ROF Aycliffe, (Filling Factory No. 8).
- ROF Thorpe Arch (Filling Factory No. 9).
- ROF Queniborough, (Filling Factory No. 10).
- ROF Brackla, (Filling Factory No. 11).
- ROF Swindon (Wootton Bassett), (Factory No. 12). *
- ROF Macclesfield, (Factory No. 13). *
- ROF Ruddington, (Filling Factory No. 14).
- ROF Walsall, (Filling Factory No. 15).
- ROF Elstow, (Filling Factory No. 16).
- ROF Featherstone, (Filling Factory No. 17).
- ROF Burghfield, (Filling Factory No. 18) (later part of the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE)).
- ROF Tutbury, (Factory No. 19) *
- ROF Northampton, (Factory No. 20) *
(Asterisked factories Nos. 12, 13, 19 and 20 were planned, numbers assigned, but not built.)
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