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Coventry Ordnance Works

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Coventry Ordnance Works advertisement Brasseys 1915
Coventry Ordnance Works advertisement Brasseys 1915

Coventry Ordnance Works was a British manufacturer of heavy guns particularly naval artillery jointly owned by Cammell Laird & Co of Sheffield and Birkenhead, Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company of Govan, Glasgow and John Brown & Company of Clydebank and Sheffield. Its core operations were from a 60-acre site in Stoney Stanton Road in the English city of Coventry, Warwickshire. At the end of 1918 it became a principal constituent of a brand new enterprise English Electric Company Limited. After World War II the works made electricity-generating machinery and heavy machine tools.

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Coventry Ordnance Works
Smith Street, Coventry Hillfields

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CV6 5EH Coventry, Hillfields
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Coventry Ordnance Works advertisement Brasseys 1915
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HMS Mercia
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HMS Mercia was a shore establishment of the Royal Navy located in Smith Street, Coventry, England. The establishment functioned primarily as a communications training centre for Royal Navy personnel in the Midlands. The establishment was commissioned on 1 October 1984 as part of the Royal Navy's network of shore based training facilities. HMS Mercia provided training in naval communications, signalling procedures, wireless operation & administrative support functions. The unit also supported Royal Naval Reserve activities in the region, maintaining a Royal Navy presence in Coventry during the later stages of the Cold War. Located in Smith Street in central Coventry, HMS Mercia occupied premises associated with wartime & post war military administration in the city. The establishment formed part of a wider reorganisation of Royal Navy shore facilities during the 1980s, with smaller communications & reserve training units distributed across major regional centres. The establishment remained operational throughout the late 1980s & early 1990s. Following reductions in Royal Navy shore establishments after the end of the Cold War, HMS Mercia was selected for closure. The establishment paid off on 29 July 1994, when the ship's company transferred to HMS Forward in nearby Birmingham. Following the decommissioning of HMS Mercia, the establishment's ship's bell was presented to Coventry Cathedral, where it remains displayed as part of the cathedral's links with the British Armed Forces.