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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
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)
Armstrong Whitworth
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Sir W.G. Armstrong Whitworth & Co Ltd, widely known as Armstrong Whitworth among several similarly named variants, was a major British heavy engineering and manufacturing company that was at its peak
Vickers Limited
…by separating Metropolitan Carriage Wagon and Finance Company and Metropolitan-Vickers, then merging the remaining bulk of the original business with Armstrong Whitworth to form Vickers-Armstrongs. The Vickers name resurfaced as Vickers plc between 1977 and 1999. Vickers was formed in Sheffield as a steel foundry by the…
A share certificate issued by Sir W. G. Armstrong, Withworth & Co. Ltd in 1903
Metropolitan Railway K Class 2-6-4T locomotive
Works plate on Armstrong Whitworth-built LMS Stanier Class 5 4-6-0 45305 showing completion in 1936
Brazil Navy ship Bahia