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 w
Vickers-Armstrongs Works in Scotswood
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 shi
Vickers-Armstrongs
…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…
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)