| 词条 | Kynoch | |||||
| 释义 |
| name = Kynoch | logo = File:Kynoch_logo.png | type = Private | genre = | fate = Incorporated | predecessor = | successor = ICI | foundation = {{start date|1862}}, Witton in Birmingham, United Kingdom | founder = George Kynoch | defunct = | location_city = | location_country = | location = | locations = | area_served = | key_people = | industry = ammunition | products = | services = | revenue = | operating_income = | net_income = | aum = | assets = | equity = | owner = | num_employees = | parent = | divisions = | subsid = | homepage = | footnotes = | intl = | website = {{URL|http://www.kynochammunition.co.uk/}} }} Kynoch was a manufacturer of ammunition, later incorporated into ICI but remaining as a brand name for sporting cartridges. HistoryThe firm of Pursall and Phillips operated a 'percussion cap manufactory' at Whittall Street, in Birmingham, in the mid 19th century.[1][2] In 1856, Scottish entrepreneur George Kynoch joined the company.[1] An explosion in 1859 destroyed the works, killing 19 of the 70 employees.[1][2] As a result the firm moved to Witton in 1862,[3] on a site adjacent to the London and North Western Railway's Grand Junction line.[2] In 1963, Kynoch took over the business, which was subsequently renamed G. Kynoch and Co.[1][2] In 1895 Kynoch built an explosives factory east of Shell Haven Creek, Essex (now known as Coryton). This opened in 1897, with an estate for employees called Kynochtown. Products included cordite, guncotton, gunpowder, and cartridges.[4] After World War I many of the UK ammunition and explosives manufacturers were brought together under Nobel Explosives to become Nobel Industries, which was a founding element of Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd (ICI) in 1926. Once Nobel Industries, including Kynoch Ltd, had merged to form ICI, the original Kynoch factory in Witton became the head office and principal manufacturing base of the "ICI Metals Division". Kynoch, along with names such as Eley, became brands of subsidiaries. {{Main|Imperial Chemical Industries}}Kynoch, established a munitions factory on the north side of Arklow, Ireland. This factory employed several thousand workers during World War I, but closed shortly after it, all production being moved to South Africa. Seventeen workers were killed in an explosion there on 21 September 1917. It was believed that the plant was shelled by a German U-boat[5] During the 1950s, the sound of test firing of munitions still occasionally shattered the peace over Witton, but with the standardization of cartridges across the Western powers and a general downturn in ammunition requirements, the sidelines in sporting cartridges were discontinued by Imperial Metal Industries (IMI) in 1970. IMI became independent of ICI in 1977, still producing rimfire and shotgun cartridges for the sporting markets. The more economically viable production of shotgun and rimfire ammunition continued. The Ammunition Division was incorporated separately as Eley Limited in 1983. Kynoch has reopened in 2002 under the name Kynamco producing big game rifle ammunition from 6.5x54 to 700 nitro express and is situated at Mildenhall in Suffolk England The Kynoch Press{{Main|The Kynoch Press}}The Kynoch Press was founded as a company press in 1876 to print packaging. To manage publicity, the company set it up as a fine press, which, when Kynoch became ICI in 1929, continued as a division and kept its name, The Kynoch Press. The Kynoch Press not only handled the firm's printing, but performed independent work, operating at times like a small press, and at other times like a fine press, and yet at other times like a private press. GallerySee also
References1. ^1 2 3 {{cite web |title=Pursall and Phillips |url=https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Pursall_and_Phillips |publisher=Grace's Guide |accessdate=26 November 2018 |language=en}} 2. ^1 2 3 {{Cite ODNB|id=48741|title=George Kynoch}} 3. ^{{cite book|title=Blue Book of Airguns |author=Robert D. Beeman |author2=John B. Allen |publisher=Blue Book Publications |year=2005 |isbn=1-886768-56-0 |page=295}} 4. ^Henry W. Macrosty. (1907). The Trust Movement In British Industry. The Chemical Industries. (p. 166). {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070829052654/http://cupid.ecom.unimelb.edu.au/het/macrosty/trust.pdf |date=2007-08-29 }} Batoche Books. 5. ^{{cite book |last=Bourke |first=Edward |authorlink= |editor= |others= |title=Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast |volume=2 |year=1998|isbn=0952302713 |page=195}} External links{{Commons category|Kynoch}}
3 : Ammunition manufacturers|Firearm manufacturers of the United Kingdom|Privately held companies of the United Kingdom |
|||||
| 随便看 |
|
开放百科全书收录14589846条英语、德语、日语等多语种百科知识，基本涵盖了大多数领域的百科知识，是一部内容自由、开放的电子版国际百科全书。