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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 c
Vickers, Sons & Maxim's Naval Construction Works (c. 1900)
1914 advertisement in Jane's presenting Vickers broad naval capabilities
The Vickers works in Cross Gates, Leeds
Vickers machine gun
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The Vickers machine gun or Vickers gun is a water-cooled.303 British machine gun produced by Vickers Limited, originally for the British Army. The gun was operated by a three-man crew, but typically r
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A Vickers machine gun mounted on a tripod. This example is at York Castle Museum.
A Vickers machine gun crew in action at the Battle of the Menin Road Ridge, September 1917
The cockpit of a Bristol Scout biplane in 1916, showing a Vickers machine gun synchronised to fire through the propeller by an early Vickers-Challenger interrupter gear.
Vickers Mk. II* or III in naval anti-aircraft service during WWII in the Mediterranean