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. Entire large ships, cars, tanks and torpedoes followed. Airships and aircraft were added, and Vickers jet airliners were to remain in production until 1965.
Colonel Thomas Vickers (1833–1915)
Albert Vickers (1838–1919)
Sir Hiram Maxim (1840–1916): caricature by Spy for Vanity Fair, 1904
Vickers' 75mm mountain gun (1900)
Metro-Cammell, formally the Metropolitan Cammell Carriage and Wagon Company (MCCW), was an English manufacturer of railway carriages, locomotives and railway wagons, based in Saltley, and subsequently Washwood Heath, in Birmingham. The company was purchased by GEC Alsthom in May 1989; the Washwood Heath factory closed in 2005 and was demolished in early 2019.
A door step plate from a unit of London Underground 1973 Stock, built by Metro-Cammell
Share of the Metropolitan Railway-Carriage & Wagon Company Ltd., issued 24. May 1864
Second class coach of 1854, built by Joseph Wright and Sons, now in Powerhouse Museum, Sydney
Flirt II, a WWI Mark IV "Female" tank, built by Metropolitan