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With these acquisitions, Vickers could now produce a complete selection of products, from ships and marine fittings to armour plate and a whole suite of ordnance. In 1901 the Royal Navy's first submarine, Holland 1, was launched at the Naval Construction Yard. In 1902 Vickers took a half share in the famous Clyde shipyard John Brown & Company.
The 1.59-inch breech-loading Vickers Q.F. gun, Mk II was a British light artillery piece designed during World War I. Originally intended for use in trench warfare , it was instead tested for air-to-air and air-to-ground use by aircraft.
Vickers Limited was a British engineering conglomerate. The business began in Sheffield in 1828 as a steel foundry and became known for its church bells, going on to make shafts and propellers for ships, armour plate and then artillery.
VCD Athletic Football Club (short for Vickers, Crayford & Dartford Athletic Football Club) is a semi-professional football club based in Crayford in south-east London, England. The club was founded in 1916, during the First World War , as a company team by employees of the now defunct Vickers armaments factory in Crayford .
Vickers was a pioneer in producing airliners, early examples being converted from Vimy bombers. Post-WWII, Vickers went on to manufacture the piston-engined Vickers VC.1 Viking airliner, the Viscount and Vanguard turboprop airliners and (as part of BAC) the VC10 jet airliner, which was used in RAF service as an aerial refuelling tanker until 2013.
Vickers Vimy Commercial in flight Vickers Vimy Commercial on the ground Airliner cabin. The Vimy Commercial was a civilian version with a larger-diameter fuselage (largely of spruce plywood), which was developed at and first flew from the Joyce Green airfield in Kent on 13 April 1919.
Vickers had factories at nearby Bexleyheath, Crayford, Erith and Dartford. [3] The Vickers hangars and buildings were grouped at the south end of the site near to the entrance gates. Once assembled aircraft were stripped down piece-small and moved by road from Erith, through the streets of Crayford to Joyce Green and returned the same way. [4]
1904 Siddeley 2-seater 1908 Wolseley-Siddeley 1912 Wolseley 24-30. These vehicles had conventional vertical engines Prior to 1906 the first of these designs had been made by Vickers at their Crayford, Kent works to Siddeley's specifications and marketed by Siddeley Autocar Company Limited