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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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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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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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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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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COW Biplane (redirect from Coventry Ordnance Works Biplane 10)
for the newly formed Royal Flying Corps, the directors of the Coventry Ordnance Works decided to enter two aircraft. The company had just taken over...
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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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operating as a stable gun platform for the Coventry Ordnance Works 37 mm autocannon produced by the Coventry Ordnance Works (COW). The COW gun had been developed...
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BL 5.5-inch Mk I naval gun (category Coventry Ordnance Works)
Royal Navy during both World Wars. This weapon was developed by Coventry Ordnance Works in 1913 and offered to the Greek Navy as the main armament for...
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produce a fighter aircraft armed with a heavy calibre gun. The Coventry Ordnance Works (COW) 37 mm automatic gun was used, which had been developed for...
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by the Royal Aircraft Factory and built under contracts by the Coventry Ordnance Works, Austin, Napier and Siddeley-Deasy for the Royal Flying Corps....
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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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Mulliner's involvement in the ordnance works in a supplement to The Times 9 June 1909. The main workshop at the Coventry Ordnance works was claimed by The Times...
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was told that the purpose of the aircraft was to carry a pair of Coventry Ordnance Works [37 mm (1.5 in)] guns, generally called COW guns. When Barnwell...
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This is a list of aircraft in alphabetical order beginning with 'Co' through to 'Cz'. (Co-Z Development Co, Mesa, AZ) Cozy Mark III Cozy Mark IV CoZ Europe...
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(the majority builder), Fosters of Lincoln, Armstrong-Whitworth, Coventry Ordnance Works, William Beardmore & Company and Mirrlees, Watson & Co., with the...
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breech threads of a 15-inch gun from inside the barrel in the Coventry Ordnance Works during WWI Rifled breech loader Brassey's Naval Annual 1899, page...
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in aircraft, evaluated heavy aircraft guns including the 37mm Coventry Ordnance Works (COW) gun, tested ammunition to be used against Zeppelins including...
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12. William Beardmore & Company, Parkhead, Glasgow: 37 Coventry Ordnance Works, Coventry: 19 Royal Gun Factory, Woolwich: 33 Vickers, Son and Maxim, Barrow-in-Furness:...
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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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the truck's flat bed. On the rear half of the flat bed, a 37mm Coventry Ordnance Works gun was mounted. The COW gun was a 37 mm clip-loaded long-recoil...
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[citation needed] He moved to Vickers, before joining Coventry Ordnance Works, a munitions factory in Coventry, for the duration of the First World War. Lord...
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and tail unit of the B.E.2e (50 built by Daimler, 50 built by Coventry Ordnance Works) B.E.12b – Re-engined version powered by a 200 hp (150 kW) Hispano-Suiza...
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North British Locomotive in Glasgow and later at Metropolitan, Coventry Ordnance Works and the Patent Shaft and Axletree Company. Confusingly the new...
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the British market; Ariel cars were thereafter assembled at the Coventry Ordnance Works, a branch of Cammell Laird. The arrangement with Lorraine-Dietrich...
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(known as the "pom-pom"). The gun itself was derived from the Coventry Ordnance Works 37 mm gun which used a long-recoil operation to fire a 1.5 lb (0...
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Monza works for sentimental reasons, and managed by Natale Baccanti. In the UK, British Anzani outsourced the manufacture of their engines to Coventry Ordnance...
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as a stable gun platform for the COW 37 mm gun produced by the Coventry Ordnance Works (COW) that fired 23 oz (0.65 kg) shells. The gun was to be mounted...
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