Maltby Production

[harry mac]

Was it just No4s that were assembled in Maltby?
Also, did Maltby do much fabricating, or was it just a big assembly plant?

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[Peter Laidler]

Just a small manufactory making bodies and bolts mainly but a megga large assembly plant. There has been talk recently as to whether it actually MADE barrels or whether it got it's barrels from Accles and Pollock

[harry mac]

Thanks Peter. A friend of mine is looking into her family history, and one of her relatives worked there for a time in the early 50s.

[Peter Laidler]

Mmmmmm It was the first of the wartime Ordnance small-arms factories to cease production after the war in order to get the men back into the mining industry - who they robbed for the skilled the new factory needed. I thought it had finished by the 50's. Maybe you could let us all know what she learns about ROF Maltby. Their code, according to Glen Chapelle (another lurker on this site from 'another' ROF) and old rifle labels was My with a lower case y. This was stamped on the rifles as an intertwined MY capital letter Y

[harry mac]

My dad remembers the uproar it caused locally because mining was a reserved occupation, so it wasn't permitted to just pack it in and get a job elsewhere. A face worker down the pit was on about £6 a week at the time, but a GIRL employed at Maltby could earn about twice that.
I remember talking to the dad of the girl who's doing the research, some years ago, and him telling me that shortly after the war piles of rifle stocks appeared outside some local public buildings to be used as firewood in their boilers. Local lads used to pinch them to make cross bows out of.

[Peter Laidler]

If yiour friend needs help regarding ROF Maltby, I know someone who has their historical records.

[harry mac]

If yiour friend needs help regarding ROF Maltby, I know someone who has their historical records.

I'll drop her a line Peter. Her main effort at the moment is on her nan, who worked on munitions production in Sheffield during WW1 (as did my nan), but I'm sure the Maltby info will be greatly appreciated.

[Richard Hare]

Peter,

My Maltby (1942) has a 2-groove barrel, not an Accles and Pollock. I see no indications of this being a replacement. Did Maltby use N. American barrels?

I'll be pulling it down shortly to give it a greasing, so will look for barrel marks then.....forgot what was under the wood when I re-did the draws.

[Peter Laidler]

Are you saying that Accles and Pollock were all 5 grooves?

[Richard Hare]

Peter,

I am saying I Thought Accles & Pollock were all 5 groove!!

I think I may have done the "presuming" thing!

Thanks for your reply. :-)
Richard.