ROF Aycliffe
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ROF Aycliffe, was a Royal Ordnance Factory built on an 867-acre site off Heighington Lane, Aycliffe, County Durham, England during the early 1940s.
The former WW2 Royal Ordnance Factory building at Aycliffe
A munitions worker at a ROF Aycliffe, c1942
Fuze
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In military munitions, a fuze is the part of the device that initiates its function. In some applications, such as torpedoes, a fuze may be identified by function as the exploder. The relative complex
ROF Aycliffe
…workers included around 17,000 women from the surrounding towns and villages, who worked filling shells and bullets and assembling detonators and fuzes for the war effort. They became known as the "Aycliffe Angels" after a Nazi propaganda broadcast from Lord Haw-Haw threatened that "The little angels…
Wooden grenade fuse from the 17th Century, broken open vertically, with preserved delay charge.
Mk 53 Proximity fuze for an artillery shell, c. 1945
A modern multichannel radio remote detonator, in 2015.
The contact fuze of a G7a torpedo, a hybrid design using both impact and swing-arm inertial triggering.