World War 1 munitions factory KNM company

[sylvester]

I have a photo of about 40 girls who worked at KNM Company during World War 1. The family names on the back of the photo suggest that it was in or around London. I have tried to Google this name but have not found anything helpful.
The board that has the name of the company also says "Primer Department" and there are some numbers and possibly a date but they are not in focus.
Any information about this company would be much appreciated. Thank you.

 

[gortonboy]

KNM
Kings Norton Metal Co., Birmingham, UK. This company was formed in 1890 at Kings Norton, it owned its own rolling mills and had a loading plant at Abbey wood in Kent. Cases were made in Birmingham then assembled and loaded at the Abbey Wood Factory, next to Woolwich Arsenal.

Produced .303 cartridges up to 1919 in... Armour Piercing VII.F, VII.FZ and VII.W
Ball, Cordite Mks 2, 4, 5, 6, 7
Ball, Match
Ball, Nitro-cellulose Mk 7Z
Blank Cordite Mk 5
Bulleted Blank Mk 6
Dummy, Drill Mk 3, Mk 3 Expedient, Mk 5
Explosive RTS (VII.R) Mk 2
Incendiary BIK (VII.K) Mk 1
Incendiary Buckingham (VII.B) and B Mk 3
Tracer SPG Mk VIIG Mk 1 and Mk 1Z
Experimental RTT Explosive Cartridge
Experimental Blank Cartridges

 

[sylvester]

Thank you very much for this. The factory being at Abbey Wood will explain why the photo had been posted to the family in north London. I have read the other thread on munitions workers, the conditions they lived in and that they were in hostels. A very productive day for finding out new information!

If it might help anyone I have the photo scanned and can email it out.

 

[littletardis]

Hi - After my grandmother died in 1983, a collection of WW1 postcard correspondence between her and my grandfather, who was in the trenches, was split amongst their many children and I have been gradually trying to rebuild scanned copies of this collection. Today one of the postcards, sent from my grandfather on a french postcard just before he was sent "up the line" has been made available.

This card was sent to my grandmothers home address but was then forwarded on to B38 Kings Norton Hostel, Abbey Wood, S.E.2. We knew my grandmother was in the munitions factories (although it seems her sister was sent north) and there is apparently a lost photograph of her "dancing" on a table in one of the factories.

I should very much like to see this photo and the names on it if this is possible ?

 

[sylvester]

I will happily send you a scanned photos although the only names I have are the 3 members of my maternal grandmother's family (WATERS) and I do not know where they all are on the photo. This is a formal photo - not of anyone dancing on a table!!

Email address has been edited for security reasons. Once you have posted 3 times you will be able to contact each other via PM - personal messages and swap contact details then if you wish to do so.

 

[littletardis]

Looks like we have to post 3 times (gosh sounds a bit like a seance) before we can communicate directly.

I have a photo of my grandmother on a postcard which I suspect may have been taken in the same location / time so I can probably spot her - even if she is not on a table .

 

[littletardis]

My Grandmother will have travelled up from Tonbridge in Kent to the Kings Norton factory in SE2. However her younger sister was sent to Hereford in what I believe was the Rotherwas factory.