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The Port of Bristol Authority acquire 270 acres of land at Chittening formerly the National Filling Factory. (Pin 2).
The Ministry of Munitions organised various sales by auction of equipment from the Chittening factory from 1919 onward. An interesting sale by auction of Machinery, Plant and Effects from H.M. factories, Chittening and Henbury, held on 27 and 28 January 1920 this included pumping machinery, ventilating, heating and drying plant, also a complete plant for the production of ether. The factories had their own steam locomotives to serve H.M. factories Avonmouth and Chittening. These locomotives and associated equipment were to be sold off. The sale included two standard gauge, 6 wheel coupled locomotives, cylinders 12in diameter by 18in stroke. Five-ton locomotive steam crane, standard gauge. Contractor's wagons and side-tip wagons. Sets of points and crossings also sections of rail.
Chittening was served by an extensive internal rail network. Evidence of this can be seen in some of the Britain From Above photographs. The Receiving and Despatching Sheds, Army Ordnance Department Stores and various stores and magazines were all inter connected. There were railway sidings within the factory complex and another alongside the GWR Severn Tunnel line near to where the railway spur entered the factory site.
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