[Royal Ordnance factory - Nottingham]

On 6/15/2020 at 3:05 AM, Bigred said:

Does anyone nkow what happed to the barrel mounted outside the north shop , cannot find out any info , what was the bore where it came from or any photos of it . its a mystery !!!

 

Also want to know the name of the apprentice manager in overall charge of all apprentices on site , all i can remember of him is that he was a nice bloke but looked a bit like a 1950's spive !

There were two guns.

One was a 14inch naval gun which was transferred to the Imperial War Museum site Fort Nelson on the South Coast.

The other was an experimental 183mm gun intended for use as a tank Destroyer. This was moved to RO Glascoed, Usk, South Wales.

The manager was possibly Dennis Mills.

 

[Royal Ordnance factory - Nottingham]

Just came across this conversation looking for some other information.

Started my apprenticeship ithere n 1969. Ahh the joys of walking through the Meadows along Kirk White Street down to Kings Meadow Road in a morning.

 

The Staff in the first year apprentice training centre then were:-  Fred Logan, Ernie Wragg, Baz Holmes and Alan Williams.  I seem to remember some moved on to other sections in 1970.  I think it was Ernie to Quality Control and Baz to Maintenance section (EDM?). Think Alan and Fred stayed on with a couple of new replacements.

 

The TTO Technical Training Officer at the time was Dennis Mills and later there was an Apprentice Supervisor called Jack Fenton (MBE) joined by a Gordon Holmes as well.

 

Stayed at Nottingham until they closed it down in 2001 after the various reorganisations took place, then transferred to the Leicester site.

 

Guido Bontemps