page_title: Coventry Ordnance Works
section_title: World War I
hierarchical_section_title: Coventry Ordnance Works / World War I
caption_attribution_description: English: Naval gun mountings in a workshop of the Coventry Ordnance Works.
context_page_description: 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, Warwickshire.
  At the end of 1918 it became a principal constituent of a brand new enterprise English Electric Company Limited. After World War II the works made electricity-generating machinery and heavy machine tools.
context_section_description: Coventry Ordnance Works designed and built:
  the highly successful QF 4.5 inch Howitzer which entered service in 1910,
  Coventry Ordnance Works Biplane a 1912 military aircraft
  the 5.5 inch Naval gun 1913, and
  the 15 inch siege howitzer completed 1914 for the British Army.
  Their C.O.W. 37mm gun was the first modern autocannon developed in 1917.
caption: Work on naval gun mountings
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