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Vickers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1108 words) |
 | Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering Ltd became part of the nationalised British Shipbuilders but was the first to return to the private sector. |
| Vickers Sons and Maxim began work on a rigid airship for the British Admiralty in mid 1909 in a dock at Walney Island, Cumbria, sadly it disintegrated upon its second trip out of a floating hangar on the evening of 23 September 1911. |
| Vickers was a pioneer in producing airliners, early examples being converted from Vimy bombers, and went on to manufacture the piston-engined Vickers VC.1 Viking airliner and Varsity military crew trainer, the Viscount and Vanguard turboprop airliners, and the stylish though noisy VC-10 jet airliner, which remains in RAF service as an aerial refuelling tanker. |
| Vickers Valentia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (118 words) |
| 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. |
| Two were cancelled when World War I ended and the third went to the S.E.Saunders works at Cowes for completion. |
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