Aircraft and shipbuilding company that operated in Canada
Canadian Vickers Limited
Founded
1911; 113 years ago (1911)
Defunct
1944; 80 years ago (1944) (aircraft operations) 1988; 36 years ago (1988) (shipbuilding, as MIL Vickers) 1990; 34 years ago (1990) (rail car operations, as Versatile Vickers)
Fate
Aircraft division absorbed into Canadair in 1944
Successor
Canadair and Versatile Vickers (using Canadian Vickers as brand only)
Headquarters
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Parent
Vickers Limited
Canadian Vickers Limited was an aircraft and shipbuilding company that operated in Canada during the early part of the 20th century until 1944. A subsidiary of Vickers Limited, it built its own aircraft designs as well as others under licence. Canadair absorbed the Canadian Vickers aircraft operations in November 1944.
CanadianVickers Limited was an aircraft and shipbuilding company that operated in Canada during the early part of the 20th century until 1944. A subsidiary...
according to different manufacturer codes, thus CanadianVickers-built examples were designated PBV, Boeing Canada examples PB2B (there already being a Boeing...
The CanadianVickers Vedette was the first aircraft designed and built in Canada to meet a specification for Canadian conditions. It was a single-engine...
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...
camera equipment. FV-1 Proposed designation for Hellcats to be built by CanadianVickers; cancelled before any built. France French Navy French Air Force United...
The CanadianVickers Varuna was a Canadian flying boat of the 1920s built by CanadianVickers as a twin-engined, unequal-span biplane, with a wooden hull...
The CanadianVickers Vancouver was a Canadian transport/patrol flying boat of the 1930s built by CanadianVickers. It was a twin-engine, equal-span biplane...
Later versions of the aircraft were known as the Vickers Vulture and Vickers Vanellus. Research on Vickers' first amphibious aircraft type began in December...
The CanadianVickers Vista was a Canadian-designed single-seat flying boat. The Vista was the first Canadian-designed monoplane. It had a duralumin sheet...
The CanadianVickers Vigil was a single-seat patrol aircraft designed to meet a Royal Canadian Air Force requirement for a forest fire patrol aircraft...
The CanadianVickers Velos was a Canadian twin-engined float-equipped sesquiplane designed and built by CanadianVickers Limited in 1928. Designed for...
Jonathan Stewart Vickers, CC (October 29, 1926 – July 10, 2015), known professionally as Jon Vickers, was a Canadian heldentenor. Born in Prince Albert...
Metropolitan-Vickers, then merging the remaining bulk of the original business with Armstrong Whitworth to form Vickers-Armstrongs. The Vickers name resurfaced...
The CanadianVickers Vanessa was a Canadian biplane transport floatplane of the 1920s evaluated by the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) and used briefly...
manufactured under licence in Canada by CanadianVickers Limited, as both Supermarine and CanadianVickers were subsidiaries of Vickers-Armstrongs. The Stranraer...
The Vickers Viscount is a British medium-range turboprop airliner first flown in 1948 by Vickers-Armstrongs. A design requirement from the Brabazon Committee...
Archived from the original on 19 September 2020. "Motor yacht Christina O CanadianVickers 99.13m". Red Sea Management. Archived from the original on 10 May 2021...
Kevin Michael Vickers ONB SC (born September 29, 1956) is a Canadian politician, former diplomat, and retired police officer. He served as the leader of...
The Vickers machine gun or Vickers gun is a water-cooled .303 British (7.7 mm) machine gun produced by Vickers Limited, originally for the British Army...
including Budd, St. Louis Car Company, Amerail, Nippon Sharyo and CanadianVickers. These double-decker passenger car were built by Pullman-Standard during...
Canada selected the Delta for use as a photographic survey aircraft for use by the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF), to be built by CanadianVickers under...
division of Canadian transport conglomerate Bombardier Inc. Canadair's origins lie in the establishment of a factory for CanadianVickers in the Saint-Laurent...
Europe. CT-142 Military navigation training version for the Canadian Forces. Used to train Canadian and allied nation's ACSOs and AESOPs E-9A Widget A United...