For an overview of other companies known by this name, see Vickers.
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Vickers Limited
Founded
1828
Defunct
1927
Fate
Merged with Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth & Company
Successor
Vickers-Armstrongs
Headquarters
Vickers House, Broadway, Westminster, London
Subsidiaries
Metropolitan-Vickers Wolseley Motors Whitehead & Company John Brown & Company Canadian Vickers
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.
Financial problems following the death of the Vickers brothers were resolved in 1927 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.
changed to VickersLimited and expanded its operations into aircraft manufacture by the formation of Vickers Ltd (Aviation Department). Vickers brand aircraft...
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...
shipbuilding division changed to Vickers Armstrongs Shipbuilders, Ltd and changed again in 1968 to VickersLimited Shipbuilding Group. The shipbuilding...
Canadian VickersLimited was an aircraft and shipbuilding company that operated in Canada during the early part of the 20th century until 1944. A subsidiary...
The Vickers machine gun or Vickers gun is a water-cooled .303 British (7.7 mm) machine gun produced by VickersLimited, originally for the British Army...
Vickers plc was the remainder of Vickers-Armstrongs after the nationalisation of three of its four operating groups: aviation (as a 50% share since 1960...
Edward Vickers (1804-1897) was the founder of Naylor Vickers & Co. which became VickersLimited. Vickers was a successful miller who invested his money...
called her "the lively Sara Vickers". The Guardian's Michael Billington gave the production four stars, saying that Vickers "lends Rubek's young wife the...
The Vickers Vimy was a British heavy bomber aircraft developed and manufactured by VickersLimited. Developed during the latter stages of the First World...
Edward Vickers VD (9 July 1833 – 19 October 1915) was Chairman of VickersLimited. The second son of Edward Vickers and Anne Naylor, Tom Vickers was born...
The Vickers Vulcan was a British single-engine biplane airliner of the 1920s built by VickersLimited at Brooklands Aerodrome, Surrey. It carried eight...
Later versions of the aircraft were known as the Vickers Vulture and Vickers Vanellus. Research on Vickers' first amphibious aircraft type began in December...
Armstrong Whitworth through mergers. In 1927, it merged with VickersLimited to form Vickers-Armstrongs, with its automobile and aircraft interests purchased...
Cartwright Vickers (16 January 1879 – 3 November 1939), was an economist, Deputy Lieutenant of the City of London, director of VickersLimited and London...
The Vickers MBT is a series of main battle tanks (MBTs) developed as a private venture by British company Vickers-Armstrongs for export. The design makes...
designer and chief designer at VickersLimited later Vickers-Armstrongs Aircraft Ltd. He was responsible for the Vickers Vimy, a heavy bomber designed...
Wolseley Motors Limited was a British motor vehicle manufacturer founded in early 1901 by the Vickers Armaments in conjunction with Herbert Austin. It...
started by R. K. Pierson who worked for VickersLimited, the British parent company of Canadian VickersLimited. Reid, together with a man named Newall...
partner of the Krupp concern, of VickersLimited, and of the famous arms dealer Basil Zaharov. Arms dealings with VickersLimited at war time gave basis to the...
The Vickers Type 123 was a 1920s British single-seat biplane fighter designed and built by VickersLimited as a private venture. The only Type 123 was...
by Vincent Cartwright Vickers. Originally published in 1913 by J. & E. Bumpus, Limited, London, at Vickers' expense in a limited edition of 100 copies...
ingapore-airshow-2024-st-engineering-debuts-ultimax-100-mk-9-light-machine-gun The .5" Vickers Guns and Ammunition Common Close Support Weapon (CCSW)...
Corporation, followed by 19 aircraft built under license by Canadian VickersLimited. When Jack Northrop set up the Northrop Corporation as a joint venture...