In 1927, Vickers merged with the Tyneside based engineering company Armstrong Whitworth, founded by W. G. Armstrong, to become Vickers-Armstrongs, Ltd. Armstrong Whitworth had developed along similar lines to Vickers, expanding into various military sectors and was notable for their artillery manufacture at Elswick and shipbuilding at a yard at High Walker on the River Tyne.

These had been renamed Vickers Armstrong Shipbuilders in 1955, changing again to Vickers Limited Shipbuilding Group in 1968.

Designs came from Handley Page, Vickers, Fairey, Armstrong Whitworth and Parnall with what was to be the final expressly military type, the unnamed type G. 4 / 31.

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He then gained an apprenticeship with Vickers Armstrong as a toolmaker.

The tank was powered by a T-26 flat row 4-cylinder air-cooled petrol engine which represented a Soviet full copy of the Armstrong Siddeley engine used in the Vickers 6-Ton.

This led to a split into the IIA and IIB types, with the de Havilland Dove and Airspeed Ambassador filling the IIA requirement, and the Vickers VC. 2 Viceroy and the Armstrong Whitworth AW. 55 Apollo filling IIB ( specification 8 / 46 ).

" Jock " Bryce-former chief test pilot of BAC, also chief test pilot of Vickers Armstrong has lived in Weybridge since the early 1960s

* The seventh Gibraltar was to have been a 45, 000 ton aircraft carrier, ordered from Vickers Armstrong on 15 September 1943, but cancelled in October 1945.

The main Bomber Command workhorses at the start of the war, aircraft such as the Vickers Wellington, Armstrong Whitworth Whitley, and Handley Page Hampden / Hereford, had been designed as tactical-support medium bombers, and none of them had enough range or ordnance capacity for anything more than a limited strategic offensive.

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.

Vickers merged with the Tyneside-based engineering company Armstrong Whitworth, founded by W. G. Armstrong, to become Vickers-Armstrongs, Ltd. Armstrong Whitworth and Vickers had developed along similar lines, expanding into various military sectors and produced a whole suite of military products.

The Aircraft and Shipbuilding Industries Act also led to the nationalisation of Vickers ' shipbuilding division as part of British Shipbuilders.

With their steelworking operations also nationalised into British Steel the remnants of Vickers became Vickers plc.

Many airliners have also been modified for government use as VIP transports and for military functions such as airborne tankers ( for example, the Vickers VC10, Lockheed L1011, Boeing 707 ), air ambulance ( USAF / USN McDonnell Douglas DC-9 ), reconnaissance ( Embraer ERJ 145, Saab 340, Boeing 737 ), as well as for troop-carrying roles.

) Troughton's other notable film and television roles included Kettle in Chance of a Lifetime ( 1950 ), Sir Andrew Ffoulkes in The Scarlet Pimpernel ( 1955 ), Vickers in the episode entittled Strange Partners in the Invisible Man ( the ITP Series also starred one of Pat's future Doctor Who co-stars, Deborah Watling, as Sally ) ( 1958 ), Phineus in Jason and the Argonauts ( 1963 ), Quilp in The Old Curiosity Shop ( 1962 ), Paul of Tarsus ( BBC 1960, title role ), Dr. Finlay's Casebook ( BBC 1962, semiregular ).

Holland submarines were also sold to the British Royal Navy through the English armaments company Vickers, and to the Dutch to serve in the Royal Netherlands Navy.

After the “ Placencia de Armas Co. Ltd ”; company, which swindled the Spanish Government selling useless and rather useless utility arms for Spain during the 1898 war ( also, this company, provided to Maxim outstanding and " sensitive " information that passed to his government during the conflict ), the Constructora Naval came and few years later, the Sociedad Española de Construcciones Navales, branch of Vickers in Spain were awarded, by the Spanish Government, the monopoly of the naval construction for the Spanish Navy.

Likewise Transport aircraft also received the names of cities and towns-Avro York, Vickers Valetta, Handley Page Hastings, Blackburn Beverley.

The Maxim Nordenfeldt Gun and Ammunition Factory was also a major employer, until taken over by the Vickers Company in 1897.

Erhardt also had a 12-pounder, while Vickers Maxim offered a 3-pounder and Schneider a 47 mm.

Britain's Royal Navy would soon introduce the QF 3-inch and QF 4-inch AA guns and also had Vickers 1-pounder quick firing " pom-pom " s that could be used in various mountings.

The first purpose-designed fighter aircraft included the British Vickers F. B. 5-machine gun armament was also fitted to several French types, such as the Morane-Saulnier L and N. Initially the German Air Service lagged behind the Allies in this respect with no purpose built fighting aircraft.

Blériot, Martinsyde, and Vickers also later produced military aeroplanes at Brooklands which became Britain's largest aircraft manufacturing centre by 1918.

Trees were also planted in some sections of the concrete Track to help conceal the Hawker and Vickers aircraft factories there.

Brooklands Museum houses many historic aircraft including the Vickers Wellington bomber recovered from Loch Ness in 1985, a British Airways Concorde, G-BBDG, the UK's first production Concorde, and now also owns the 40 % scale Concorde model " G-CONC " displayed for many years as a gate guardian at Heathrow Airport.

There are also many other civil and military aircraft on display including a Vickers Vanguard, Viscount, VC10.

Cosworth was initially an independent company, later becoming part of United Engineering Industries ( UEI ) and subsequently Vickers, but also had a long association with Ford Motor Company and was a subsidiary of Ford between 1998 and 2004.

Bringing a shared love of jazz to the British blues boom, then sweeping London's clubs ( which also spawned Alexis Korner, The Rolling Stones and The Yardbirds ), the band was completed by Mike Vickers on guitar, alto saxophone and flute, bassist Dave Richmond and Paul Jones as lead vocalist and harmonicist.

However, Rooney also got his first Premiership straight red card two months later on Boxing Day, for a reckless foul on Birmingham City's Steve Vickers at St. Andrew's.

While working on the Vickers Windsor he had also begun work, with support of the Admiralty, on a bomb designed initially for attacking ships, though dam-destruction was soon considered.

The Sopwith Dolphin, a " multi-gun " fighter design entering operational service at the end of World War I, featured an armament setup of two forward-firing Vickers machine guns in the usual location just forward of the cockpit, but also had the provision to mount a pair of Lewis machine guns located on the forward cross-tube that comprised part of the cabane strut structure, and intended to be aimed forwards and upwards as an anti-Zeppelin armament scheme.

This principle was also behind the Vickers GO aircraft gun.

This " hand-me-down " process of supplying aircraft continued with designs like the Convair 440, Douglas DC-6 and Vickers Viscount also serving in this role while the first jets were introduced.

In 1925 the British adopted a new instrument developed by Vickers.

As well as Saunders-Roe and Vickers ( which combined in 1966 to form the British Hovercraft Corporation ( BHC )), other commercial craft were developed during the 1960s in the UK by Cushioncraft ( part of the Britten-Norman Group ) and Hovermarine based at Woolston ( the latter being ' Sidewall Hovercraft ', where the sides of the hull projected down into the water to trap the cushion of air with ' normal ' hovercraft skirts at the bow and stern ).

By the late 1930s, both Vickers and Sperry had developed predictors for use against high altitude bombers.

The T-19 8-ton light infantry tank, developed by S. Ginzburg under that programme at the Bolshevik Plant in Leningrad, was a competitor to the British Vickers 6-Ton.

Dzerzhinsky developed two tank models ( TMM-1 and TMM-2 ) based on the purchased Vickers 6-Ton tank design but with an American Hercules six-cylinder water-cooled engine, improved front armour ( to 15 – 20 mm ), and a driver's position on the left side.

The tank's suspension system was that which had been developed by Vickers for their Medium C prototype in the mid-1920s.

The mission grew out of a concept for a bomb designed by Barnes Wallis and developed by his team at Vickers.

The Type IIB requirement was developed as the Vickers Viscount.

The Canadian Vickers Vedette was developed for forstry patrol in remote areas, previously a job that was done by canoe and took weeks could be accomplished in hours, revolutionizing forestry conservation.

Throughout the many years at the Lyric, Carol Fox developed the confidence and authority to bring the following world-famous artists to the Lyric: Luciano Pavarotti ( 56 performances in 7 roles ), Tito Gobbi, Eleanor Steber, Jussi Björling, Birgit Nilsson, Renata Tebaldi, Giuseppe di Stefano, Giulietta Simionato, Richard Tucker, Boris Christoff, Eileen Farrell, Dorothy Kirsten, Leonie Rysanek, Leontyne Price, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Geraint Evans, Mirella Freni, Nicolai Ghiaurov, Alfredo Kraus, Renata Scotto, Robert Merrill, Joan Sutherland, Christa Ludwig, Jon Vickers, Marilyn Horne, Grace Bumbry, Monserrat Caballe, Tatiana Troyanos, Sherill Milnes, Plácido Domingo, Felicia Weathers and Jose Carreras.

It was decided that the Rolls-Royce model, to be called the Silver Seraph, would use BMW's naturally aspirated V12 engine while the more-sporting Bentley model would use a special twin-turbo version of the 4. 4 litre BMW V8, which was developed by Vickers subsidiary, Cosworth Engineering.

There were other Vickers machine guns aside from the regular water-cooled model ( known universally as the " Vickers "): the Vickers-Berthier ( VB ) machine gun used by the Indian Army, the Vickers " K " 7. 7 mm aircraft machine gun developed from it, and the Vickers " S " 40 mm aircraft gun.

The A10 was developed by Sir John Carden of Vickers in 1934 by adaptation of his A9 design.

The first concrete result was the Vickers Experimental Fighting Biplane 1, which featured at the 1913 aero show and appeared in developed form as the FB. 5 in February 1915.

A minority of military training aircraft, such as the Vickers Varsity, Hawker Siddeley Dominie or Boeing T-43 were developed from transport designs to train navigators and other rear crews operators.

Measuring the mechanical hardness of materials changed to using a nanoindenter ( usually made of diamond ) and evaluating bulk moduli, and the Brinell, Rockwell, Knoop and Vickers scales have been developed.