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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 as Vickers plc in 1977.
It was one of Britain's most prominent armaments firms
Vickers merged with the Tyneside-based engineering company Armstrong Whitworth, founded by William Armstrong, to become Vickers-Armstrongs. Armstrong Whitworth and Vickers had developed along similar lines, expanding into various military sectors and produced a whole suite of military products. Armstrong Whitworth were notable for their artillery manufacture at Elswick and shipbuilding at a yard at High Walker on the River Tyne.
1929 saw the merger of the acquired railway business with those of Cammell Laird to form Metropolitan Cammell Carriage and Wagon (MCCW); Metro Cammell.
In 1935, before rearmament began, Vickers-Armstrongs was the third-largest manufacturing employer in Britain, behind Unilever and ICI.
In 1956 Dorothy Hatfield became the first female engineering apprentice at Vickers-Armstrongs (Aircraft), Brooklands, followed in 1958 by Janet Gulland who was the first female graduate apprentice at the company.
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Vickers Varsity / Vickers Vanguard / Vickers VC-10 / Vickers Viscount type 630 / Vickers valint /
Vickers FB.5 gunbus / Vickers Viking /
Non-aviation production
Missiles And Other Weapons
"Upkeep" And "Highball" / Bouncing Bombs / Tallboy Bomb / Grand Slam Bomb
AVRO York / AirspeedAmbasador / BAC Trident / Bristol Type 175 Brittania / Bristol Freighter / BAe Jetstream / Hawker 125 / Hawker 900 / BAe RJ85 / BAC 1-11 / Britten Norman Defender / Britten Norman Islander / Britten Norman Trilander / Havilland DHC-6 / Percival Pembroke / Hawker 748 Andover / Hawker ATP / DeHavilland DH.84 Dragon /DeHavilland DH.89 Rapide / DeHavilland DH.106 Comet / DeHavilland DH.104 Dove / DeHavilland DH.114 Heron /DHA-3 Drover /
Bac Aerospaciale Concorde / Scottish Aviation Pioneer / Short Skyvan / Short 360 /
Vickers Varsity / Vickers Vanguard / Vickers VC-10 / Vickers Viscount.
Vickers-Armstrongs Limited was a British engineering conglomerate formed by the merger of the assets of Vickers Limited and Armstrong Whitworth & Company in 1927
Vickers F.B.5 (Fighting Biplane 5) (known as the "Gunbus") was a British two-seat pusher military biplane of the First World War. Armed with a .303 in (7.7 mm) Lewis gun
Vickers Wellington was a British twin-engined, long-range medium bomber. It was designed during the mid-1930s at Brooklands in Weybridge, Surrey
Vickers VC.1 Viking is a British twin-engine short-range airliner derived from the Vickers Wellington bomber and built by Vickers-Armstrongs Limited
Vickers Vanguard was a short/medium-range turboprop airliner designed and produced by the British aircraft manufacturer Vickers-Armstrongs
Vickers Valiant was a British high-altitude jet bomber designed to carry nuclear weapons, and in the 1950s and 1960s was part of the Royal Air Force's "V bomber"
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