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The historical Land marks and development of the factory are as follows: 

1801 :  Land procured to build the factory

1802: (18thMarch) Established Gun Carriage Agency for manufacture and repair of Gun carriages.

1830: Shifting of Gun Foundry from Fort William and abolition of Gun Carriage Agency and renaming the factory as Gun  Foundry.

1832 : Change over from Bullock Driven machines to Steam Driven Machines.

1840 : Production of both Brass and Iron Guns Established.

1872 : Establishment of Shell Production & renaming as Foundry & Shell Factory

1880 : Establishment of Fuze Section.

1892 : Quality Steel production in bulk started first time in India.

1896 : Establishment of Rolling Mill.

1905 : Shifting Furnaces and Rolling Mill to Ishapore. Renaming as Gun & Shell Factory.

1908 : Changeover from Steam to Electricity driven machinery

1927 : Apprentice Scheme started.

1939 : Outbreak of World War II; Annexing of Dum Dum Workshop to Gun & Shell Factory, Cossipore.

1958 : Tractor Project started.

1962 : Production of Anti Aircraft Guns started.

1964 : Dum Dum was setup as an independent unit.

1965 : Tractor Project transferred to BEML.

1998 : Establishment of 23 mm Pressure Barrel, 30 mm Ballistic Barrel, 9 mm Sub Caliber Barrel and AK-230 GunComponents (Naval).

1999 : Establishment of 12.7 mm Air Defence Gun & 0.32? Pistol.

2002 : Completion of 200 years of Factory, The first Factory within the Ordnance organisation to get ISO 9001-2000 certification.

2003 : Establishment of production of Shell 30mm. HE/T, 51 mm  Mortar.

2004 : Establishment of production of Bomb 81 mm HE, Bomb 51 mm  HE and 40mm. PFFC Shell .