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Foleshill Railway: miscfr2080

Another view of one of the 15 inch gun barrels being transported on the Foleshill Railway as it crosses Stoney Stanton Road. 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 which at the end of 1918 became a principal constituent of a brand new enterprise, the English Electric Company Limited.

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