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Vickers was a British engineering company that existed from 1828 until 1999. It was formed in Sheffield as a steel foundry by Edward Vickers and his father-in-law, and soon became famous for casting church bells.
Vickers was a pioneer in producing airliners, early examples being converted from Vimy bombers. Vickers brand aircraft were produced from 1911 to 1965, when BAC ended the name. Like many other British manufacturers, an enterprise in Canada was set up; Canadian Vickers Limited. This company ceased operations in 1944.
Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering Limited (VSEL) was a shipbuilding company based at Barrow-in-Furness, England that built warships, civilian ships, submarines and armaments. The company was historically the Naval Construction Works of Vickers Armstrongs and has a heritage of building large naval warships and armaments.
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Vickers-Armstrongs Limited was a British engineering conglomerate formed by the merger of the assets of Vickers Limited and Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth & Company in 1927. The majority of the company was nationalised in the 1960s and 1970s, with the remainder being divested as Vickers plc in 1977.
Vickers .50 machine gun; Vickers 1.57-inch mortar; Vickers 40 mm Class S gun; Vickers A1E1 Independent; Vickers Light Dragon; Vickers machine gun; Vickers MBT; Vickers MBT Mark 3; Vickers MBT Mark 4; Vickers MBT Mark 7; Vickers Medium Dragon; Vickers Model 1931; Vickers Vigilant; Vickers VR180 Vigor; Vickers–Berthier; Vickers-Carden-Loyd ...
Vickers Limited: Barrow-in-Furness: Amphitrite: Diadem-class cruiser 24 January United Kingdom: Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company: Govan, Scotland Argonaut: Diadem-class cruiser 10 February United Kingdom: Kingston upon Hull: Bullfinch: Bullfinch-class destroyer 22 February United Kingdom: Hawthorn Leslie and Company: Newcastle ...
Last Vickers Valiant ever built. Cockpit in preservation [6] [7] XD826 1956 December 15th, 1956 December 1964 Royal Air Force: Imperial War Museum at Duxford, Cambridgeshire, England: On static display Cockpit only [8] [9] XD857 1957 January 5th, 1957 February 19th, 1965 Royal Air Force: Norfolk and Suffolk Aviation Museum at Flixton, Suffolk ...