AdminHistory | Coventry Ordnance Works was a manufacturer of heavy guns, particularly naval artillery, based in the city of Coventry. The company also opened a factory in Scotstoun, Glasgow, in 1910 which made heavy gun mountings.
The company was set up with the encouragement of the British Government in 1905 by a consortium of British shipbuilding firms consisting of John Brown and Company Limited (Clydebank), Yarrow (Shipbuilders) Limited, Scotstoun, Cammel Laird Limited, Birkenhead and Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company Limited, Govan.
The firm struggled in the recession after the end of World War 1 and closed in 1925. |
Description | X313/1 - Corporate and Management Records X313/2 - Legal Records X313/3 - Financial Records X313/4 - Plant and Property Records X313/5 - Production and Sales Records X313/6 - Promotional Material X313/7 - Related Companies
The collection consists of the records of Coventry Ordnance Works Limited, Ordnance Manufacturers, Coventry as acquired by Johnson and Firth Brown Limited, Steel Manufacturers, Sheffield.
Records of John Brown and Company Limited (Clydebank), Shipbuilders, Clydebank (X312), John Brown and Company Limited, Steel Manufacturers, Sheffield (X308), and Johnson and Firth Brown Limited, Steel Manufacturers, Sheffield (X306) are catalogued separately. |
CustodialHistory | These records were deposited at Sheffield Archives via the Archivist at Cutlers Hall, Sheffield by Firth Rixson PLC in 1993. They had presumably remained in the custody of Firth Rixson PLC and its predecessors prior to this time. |