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Remembered Today:

The Failed Otley Filling Factory


Simon R

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Members may be interested in this blog post on the Otley Local History Bulletin.

National Filling Factory No.15 was a failed attempt to construct a plant filling 4.5" and 18lb field artillery shells with Amatol.

It failed due to technical and geographical factors - the shift from pre-formed Amatol blocks to direct press-filling made the distant and inaccessible Otley scheme redundant.

Barnbow seems to have taken up the slack when the Otley factory failed to materialise.

 

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