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Vickers, Limited was a famous British engineering conglomerate that merged into Vickers Armstrong in 1927. Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth & Co Ltd was a major British manufacturing company of the early years of the 20th century. ...
The Vickers corporation, founded as the Vickers company in 1828, was a British manufacturer, primarily of military equipment. ...
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Metropolitan-Vickers, or Metrovick, was a British heavy industrial firm of the early-to-mid 20th century formerly known as British Westinghouse. ...
The Wolseley Motor Company was an automobile manufacturer in the United Kingdom from 1905. ...
Robert Whitehead (January 3, 1823 - November 14, 1905), British engineer. ...
HMS Indefatigable being launched at Clydebank. ...
The Vickers corporation, founded as the Vickers company in 1828, was a British manufacturer, primarily of military equipment. ...
History
Early History Vickers was formed in Sheffield as a steel foundry by the miller Edward Vickers and his father-in-law George Naylor in 1828. Naylor was a partner in the foundry Naylor & Sanderson and Vickers' brother William owned a steel rolling operation. Edward's investments in the railway industry allowed him to gain control of the company, based at Millsands and known as Naylor Vickers and Company. It began life making steel castings and quickly became famous for casting church bells. In 1854 Vickers' sons Thomas and Albert joined the business. In 1863 the company moved to a new site in Sheffield on the River Don in Brightside. The company went public in 1867 as Vickers, Sons & Company and gradually acquired more businesses, branching out into various sectors. In 1868 Vickers began to manufacture marine shafts, in 1872 they began casting marine propellers and in 1882 they set up a forging press. Vickers produced their first armour plate in 1888 and their first artillery piece in 1890. It bought out the Barrow in Furness shipbuilder The Barrow Shipbuilding Company in 1897, acquiring its subsidiary the Maxim Nordenfelt Guns And Ammunitions Company [1] at the same time, to become Vickers, Sons & Maxim. The yard at Barrow became the "Naval Construction Yard". With these aquisitions, Vickers could now produce a complete selection of products, from ships and marine fittings to armour plate and a whole suite of ordnance. For other uses, see Sheffield (disambiguation). ...
The old steel cable of a colliery winding tower Steel is a metal alloy whose major component is iron, with carbon being the primary alloying material. ...
This article is about the factory that makes castings of metal. ...
A miller is a person who operates a mill for grinding material and usually refers to one who grinds a cereal crop to make flour. ...
Church bell from Saleby, Västergötland, Sweden containing an inscription from 1228 in the Runic alphabet A church bell is a bell which is rung in a (especially Christian) church either to signify the hour or the time for worshippers to go to church, perhaps to attend a wedding...
The River Don is a river in South Yorkshire, England. ...
Shiregreen and Brightside ward—which includes the districts of Brightside, Shiregreen, and Wincobank—is one of the 28 electoral wards in City of Sheffield, England. ...
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A picture of a destroyed M113 armoured personnel carrier showing a section of the armour. ...
Barrow-in-Furness is a town in Cumbria, England, (historically part of the traditional county of Lancashire). ...
Hiram S. Maxim Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim (February 4, 1840 - November 24, 1916) was the inventor of the Maxim Gun in 1884, the first portable, fully automatic machine gun, and the ubiquitous mousetrap. ...
In 1901 the Royal Navy's first submarine, Holland 1, was launched at the Naval Construction Yard. In 1902 Vickers took a half share in the famous Clyde shipyard John Brown and Company. Further diversification occured with the purchase of the car building activities of the Wolseley Sheep-Shearing Machine Company in 1905, which was set up as the Wolseley Tool and Motor Car Company. In 1911 a controlling interest was aquired in Whitehead and Company, the torpedo manufacturers. In 1911, the company name was changed to Vickers Limited and expanded its operations into aircraft manufacture by the formation of Vickers Ltd (Aviation Department). In 1919, the British Westinghouse electrical company was taken over as the Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company; Metrovick. At the same time they came into Metropolitan's railway interests. Wolseley was sold to the Nuffield Organisation in 1926. The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the senior service of the British armed services, being the oldest of its three branches. ...
Holland 1 was the first submarine commissioned by the Royal Navy, the first in a six-boat batch of the Holland class submarine. ...
The River Clyde, looking eastwards upstream, as it passes beneath the Kingston Bridge in Central Glasgow. ...
HMS Indefatigable being launched at Clydebank. ...
Wolseley plc is a British company based in Droitwich formerly known for the manufacture of Wolseley motor cars. ...
The Wolseley Motor Company was an automobile manufacturer in the United Kingdom from 1905. ...
Robert Whitehead (January 3, 1823 - November 14, 1905), British engineer. ...
A modern torpedo, historically called a locomotive torpedo, is a self-propelled projectile that (after being launched above or below the water surface) operates underwater and is designed to detonate on contact or in proximity to a target. ...
An aerospace manufacturer is a company or individual involved in the various aspects of designing, building, testing, selling, and maintaining aircraft, aircraft parts, missiles, rockets, and/or spacecraft. ...
British Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company was a subsidiary of the American Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company. ...
Metropolitan-Vickers, or Metrovick, was a British heavy industrial firm of the early-to-mid 20th century formerly known as British Westinghouse. ...
The Nuffield Organisation was an automobile manufacturing company in the United Kingdom. ...
Merger with Armstrong Whitworth In 1927, Vickers merged with the Tyneside based engineering company Armstrong Whitworth, founded by W. G. Armstrong, to become Vickers-Armstrong, Ltd. Tyneside is a conurbation in northern England, covering part of the area of Tyne and Wear. ...
Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth & Co Ltd was a major British manufacturing company of the early years of the 20th century. ...
Sir William George Armstrong William George Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong (November 26, 1810 – December 27, 1900) was an English industrialist, the effective founder of the Armstrong Whitworth manufacturing empire. ...
Businesses
Armaments Vickers manufactured and sold the Maxim machine gun forming a partnership with its inventor. They later took over the company and improved the design as the Vickers machine gun, which was the last major design Hiram Maxim himself worked on. It became the standard machine gun of the British Empire and Commonwealth, serving for some 50 years in the British Army. It also re-worked in literally dozens of different cartridge sizes and sold all over the world, and was scaled up to larger calibers, particularly for the Royal Navy as a 0.5 inch model). An early Maxim gun in operation with the Royal Navy The Maxim gun was the first self-acting machine gun. ...
The Vickers machine gun or Vickers gun is a name primarily used to refer to the water-cooled . ...
Hiram S. Maxim Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim (February 4, 1840 - November 24, 1916) was the inventor of the Maxim Gun in 1884, the first portable, fully automatic machine gun. ...
The British Empire in 1897, marked in pink, the traditional colour for Imperial British dominions on maps. ...
Flag of the Commonwealth of Nations The Commonwealth of Nations is a voluntary association of independent sovereign states, most of which were once governed by the United Kingdom and are its former colonies. ...
The British Army is the land armed forces branch of the British Armed Forces. ...
The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the senior service of the British armed services, being the oldest of its three branches. ...
Vickers was involved in the production of numerous firearms. John Pedersons design for a semi-automatic rifle was trialled by the British in the inter-war period (between WW1 and 2). The British version of the rifle was made by Vickers, and as result this version of the Pedersen rifle is usually called the Vickers Rifle. John Douglas Pederson was a prolific arms designer from Wyoming. ...
Pedersens toggle-locked rifle in caliber . ...
Airships Vickers began work on a rigid airship for the British Admiralty in mid-1909 in Cavendish Dock, Cumbria, sadly it disintegrated upon its second trip out of a floating hangar on the evening of 23 September 1911. Further designs and difficulties followed although non-rigid machines including "Sea Scouts" (popularly called blimps) proved generally less troublesome than the larger rigid examples. Some models featured floating cars slung beneath them. Much experience in mooring techniques and swivelling motors was gathered despite the pressures of wartime. The last airship built at the Walney Island dock was a small non-rigid reconnaissance machine for the Japanese government that first flew on 27 April 1921. A subsidiary called the Airship Guarantee Company Limited was formed under Sir Dennis Burney from 29 November 1923 (lasting until 30 November 1935) specifically to participate in the building of a massive six-engined commercial airship, the R100 in competition with the ill-fated R101. Their buildings were at Howden in Yorkshire. The R100 flew initially on 16 December 1929 and achieved some trans-Atlantic flights before scrapping in November 1931 by Elton, Levy and Company. Old Admiralty House, Whitehall, London, Thomas Ripley, architect, 1723-26, was not admired by his contemporaries and earned him some scathing couplets from Alexander Pope The Admiralty was historically the authority in the United Kingdom responsible for the command of the Royal Navy. ...
1909 (MCMIX) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ...
Cumbria is a county in the North West region of England. ...
September 23 is the 266th day of the year (267th in leap years). ...
1911 (MCMXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). ...
Blimp is an informal term typically applied to non-rigid airships. ...
Walney Island, otherwise the Isle of Walney is the eighth-largest marine island off the coast of England. ...
April 27 is the 117th day of the year (118th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 248 days remaining. ...
1921 (MCMXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ...
Sir Charles Dennistoun Burney, was a British aeronautical engineer and private inventor. ...
November 29 is the 333rd (in leap years the 334th) day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
1923 (MCMXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...
November 30 is the 334th day (335th on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 31 days remaining. ...
1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
USS Akron (ZRS-4) in flight, November 2, 1931 An airship is a buoyant aircraft that can be steered and propelled through the air. ...
R100 moored in Saint-Hubert The HM Airship R100 was a rigid airship, the successful private counterpart to the British government R101 project, in a competition intended to maximize innovation. ...
Howden is a small town in the East Riding of Yorkshire, lying next to the M62 approximately five miles north of Goole. ...
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December 16 is the 350th day of the year (351st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Aircraft Vickers formed formed Vickers Ltd (Aviation Department) 1911 and produced one of the first aircraft designed to carry a machine gun, the FB5 (fighting biplane) Gun Bus. During World War I it produced the Valentia and Viking flying boats and the Vimy heavy bomber. An example of the latter became the first aircraft to cross the Atlantic Ocean non-stop, a converted Royal Air Force bomber (See 1919 in aviation.) The Vimy was later developed into the Virginia, a mainstay in the RAF during the interwar years. Vickers was a pioneer in producing airliners, early examples being converted from Vimy bombers, Airbus A380 An aircraft is any machine capable of atmospheric flight. ...
A machine gun is a fully-automatic firearm that is capable of firing bullets in rapid succession. ...
The Vickers F.B.5 Gunbus was the first operational British aircraft purpose-built for air-to-air combat, making it debatably the worlds first true fighter aircraft. ...
The Vickers Valentia was a British flying boat designed during World War I. Three Valentia prototypes were built by the Vickers Company at their Barrow works (Walney Island perhaps), having been ordered in May 1918. ...
Vickers Viking IV of the Royal Canadian Air Force, 1926 Note: this is an article about the single-engined amphibian Vickers Viking of 1918. ...
Boeing 314 A flying boat is an aircraft that is designed to take off and land on water, in particular a type of seaplane which uses its fuselage as a floating hull (instead of pontoons mounted below the fuselage). ...
The Vickers Vimy was a British heavy bomber aircraft of the World War I era. ...
The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the air force branch of the British Armed Forces. ...
This is a list of aviation-related events from 1919: Events Avianca begins services. ...
The Vickers Virginia was a bomber aircraft of the RAF, developed from the famous Vickers Vimy. ...
An Airbus A340 airliner operated by Air Jamaica An airliner is a large fixed-wing aircraft whose primary function is the transportation of paying passengers. ...
Shipbuilding Vickers entered naval shipbuilding with the purchase of Barrow Shipbuilding Company in 1897, forming the Naval Construction Yard at Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria. This yard later passed into the hands of the nationalised British Shipbuilders in 1977, was privatised as Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering Ltd in 1986 and remains in operation to this day as BAE Systems Submarines. Barrow-in-Furness is a town in Cumbria, England. ...
Cumbria is a county in the North West region of England. ...
British Shipbuilders was a public corporation that owned and managed the UK shipbuilding industry from 1977 to 1986. ...
Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering Ltd (VSEL) is based at Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England. ...
BAE Systems Submarines, until 2003 a unit within BAE Systems Marine, is responsible for the development and production of the Astute class submarine. ...
See also Sir Basil Zaharoff, originally Zacharias Basileios, (1849, MuÄŸla, Turkey - 1936, Monte Carlo, Monaco) was a Greek arms trader and financier, the director and chairman of the Vickers munitions firm during the World War I. It was said that he fuelled conflicts in order to sell weapons to both sides. ...
Vickerstown is an area located on the Isle of Walney, in the town of Barrow-in-Furness, England. ...
References - Anon (1898), Vickers, Sons and Maxim Limited: Their Works and Manufactures, Reprinted from "Engineering", London
- Scott, J.D. (1962), Vickers: A History, Weidenfield and Nicolson, London.
External links - Biography of Thomas and Albert Vickers
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