In 1968, GEC merged with English Electric, incorporating Elliott Brothers, the Marconi Company, Ruston & Hornsby, Robert Stephenson and Hawthorns and the Vulcan Foundry, Willans & Robinson and Dick, Kerr & Co.

The Infantry Tank Mk II was designed at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich to General Staff specification A. 12 and built by the Vulcan Foundry.

The first order was placed shortly after trials were completed with 140 ordered from Vulcan Foundry in mid 1938.

Following the initial order from Vulcan Foundry, a second order was placed shortly after with Ruston & Hornsby.

Some 2, 987 tanks were produced by the Vulcan Foundry, John Fowler & Co. of Leeds, Ruston & Hornsby, and later by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway at Horwich Works ; Harland and Wolff, and the North British Locomotive Company Glasgow.

** 20 Class 15 Diesel Electric shunters ( 15101-15120 ), manufactured by English Electric's Vulcan Foundry in Lancashire, England, United Kingdom.

** 26 Class 20 Diesel Electric mainline locomotives ( 20101-20126 ), manufactured by English Electric's Vulcan Foundry in Lancashire, England, United Kingdom.

Locomotive building was concentrated in another area within Newton le Willows (' Between 1833 and 1895 the Vulcan Foundry produced some 6, 000 locomotives to become the 4th largest locomotive building firm in the country, almost 70 % of which were exported.

Vulcan Foundry received its final steam locomotive order in 1954 ), while Earlestown was home to the major wagon works.

* The Vulcan Foundry Newton-le-Willows

Fairlie locomotive built for Burma Railways by the Vulcan Foundry Co.

EE took over Vulcan Foundry and Robert Stephenson and Hawthorns, both with substantial railway engineering pedigrees, in 1955.

Early locomotives ( including DS1173 ) were built by Vulcan Foundry and later examples were built by Robert Stephenson and Hawthorns.

A clear line of development can be seen in the Class 04s from the 0-4-0DM locomotives built by Andrew Barclay and Drewry / Vulcan Foundry in the early 1940s.

Sixty-five of the 600 Class locomotives were built by English Electric between 1950 and 1957, numbered 601 – 665, at either Dick, Kerr & Co. Works ( 601 – 610 ) in Preston or Vulcan Foundry Works ( remainder ) in Newton-le-Willows.

They were built at the Vulcan Foundry in Newton-le-Willows, Lancashire.

All were built at Vulcan Foundry, except a batch of twenty ( Nos.

Following successful trials of the initial locomotives, a production run of 43 locomotives were built by English Electric at their Vulcan Foundry between 1965 and 1967.

The British Rail Class 83 electric locomotives were built by English Electric at Vulcan Foundry, Newton-le-Willows as part of the West Coast Main Line electrification.

Fifteen engines of British Rail Class 83 were built between 1960 and 1962 by English Electric at Vulcan Foundry, as part of British Rail's policy to develop a standard electric locomotive.

The Vulcan Foundry at Newton-le-Willows produced ironwork for the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, as well as locomotives ( see: Category: Vulcan Foundry locomotives ).

Modern weapons include the Russian ZSU-23-4 Shilka and Tunguska-M1, South Korean K30 Biho and K263A1 radar-guided Vulcan, Chinese Type 95 SPAAA, Swedish CV9040 AAV, Polish PZA Loara, American M6 Bradley Linebacker and M1097 Humvee Avenger, Yugoslavian BOV-3, Canadian ADATS, aging German Gepard, Japanese Type 87 SPAAG and similar versions with the British Marksman turret ( which was also adapted for a number of other users ), Italian SIDAM 25 and Otomatic, and versions of the French AMX-13.

The Avro Vulcan was part of the RAF V bomber force

In addition, the pilots of the Avro Vulcan or Handley Page Victor bombers could tie their systems into those of the missile and make use of the guidance system to help plot their own flight plan, since the unit in the missile was more advanced than that in the aircraft.

The inadvertent destruction of many of these eggs by a human mining colony led the mother Horta to respond by killing the colonists and sabotaging their equipment ; it was only through a Vulcan mind meld that the race's benevolence and intelligence were discovered and peaceful relations established.

A popular t-shirt and bumper sticker slogan for Trekkies, seen as early as 1967, was I grok Spock ( often showing the Star Trek character using the Vulcan salute ).

After the Gatling gun was replaced in service by newer recoil-or gas-operated non-rotating machine guns and automatic cannons, the approach of using multiple rotating barrels fell into disuse for many decades, reappearing after World War II with the development of the M61 Vulcan.

In 1929 it was acquired by Green & Carter, of Winchester, Hampshire, who were engaged in the manufacturing and installation of the well-known Vulcan and Vacher Rams.

Hephaestus ' Roman equivalent was Vulcan.

A version of T ' Pol who was flung into the past gives birth to the first human / Vulcan hybrid.

There were also hopes for an episode in which T ' Pol would finally meet her father and discover that he was in fact a Romulan agent who had posed as a Vulcan officer prior to faking his own death.

A Vulcan city which looks very similar to the ShiKahr of Star Trek: The Animated Series was shown in the new CGI establishing shots used in the special edition of " Amok Time ".

However, there is no explicit canon evidence that the group which left Vulcan was in rebellion against Surak.

The " Vulcan Soul " Trilogy, written by Josepha Sherman and Susan Shwartz, told the story that it was Surak's idea that some of the Vulcan population should leave their homeworld to find a new home so that the Vulcan race could be preserved due to the endless wars then raging on the homeworld.

Circa stardate 44995. 3 ( December 28, 2367 ), the Vulcan Ambassador Spock was discovered on Romulus, working with an underground movement for the reunification of the divided races.

The Romulans saw this as a chance to conquer the Vulcans and sent a fleet of ships toward Vulcan, but their intent was discovered and the fleet destroyed by the Romulans themselves.

According to Tanaquil, this was a divine manifestation, either of the household Lar or Vulcan himself.

It was decided to use the Vulcan to initially carry two missiles each on hardpoints outboard of the main landing gear.

Each B-52H was to carry four missiles, two under each wing on side-by-side pylons, while the Avro Vulcan carried one each on smaller pylons.

In keeping with this idea, for its first two seasons Star Trek: Enterprise was the only show to have an entirely Human crew owing to its being set before the formation of the Federation, though the vessel did carry Phlox, a Denobulan serving in a medical exchange program, and T ' Pol, then serving as an observer from the Vulcan High Command.

Particular attention was paid to quick reaction and high maneuverability of the V force aircraft, especially the Vulcan model B Mk.

Vulcan was designed for quick-reaction response.

From the day of its deployment in the deterrent force, an on-alert Vulcan was ready to launch, and strike, limited only by the readiness state established for her crew.

Although by the mid-1960s Canberras and the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm were able to deliver nuclear weapons, their carrying power was insignificant compared to the 180 Victor and Vulcan bombers.