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Vickers Limited
Founded1828
Defunct1927
FateMerged with Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth & Company
SuccessorVickers-Armstrongs
HeadquartersVickers House, Broadway, Westminster, London
SubsidiariesMetropolitan-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.

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Wilfrid Thomas Reid

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started by R. K. Pierson who worked for Vickers Limited, the British parent company of Canadian Vickers Limited. Reid, together with a man named Newall...

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Alexander Parvus

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partner of the Krupp concern, of Vickers Limited, and of the famous arms dealer Basil Zaharov. Arms dealings with Vickers Limited at war time gave basis to the...

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