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Old Photograph Royal Naval Torpedo Factory Greenock Scotland
Old photograph of the Royal Naval Torpedo Factory in Greenock by Glasgow, Scotland. Following a UK Government decision to centralise torpedo production, the Admiralty issued a compulsory purchase order in 1907, for part of the land between the Esplanade and Battery Park in Greenock, to be used for the construction of the Clyde Torpedo Factory, which was designed to be principal centre of torpedo manufacture in Britain. The factory was built on ground to the west of the old coastal battery at Fort Matilda, which had been levelled using material excavated during construction of the tunnel which emerges at Fort Matilda railway station. Offices for the new factory were located in the Navy Buildings, which were constructed on the site of the old battery. Royal Naval Torpedo Factory Greenock opened between 1910 and 1912, employing 700 workers who had been transferred from Woolwich, England.
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