British and Russian designers had proposed widebody aircraft similar in configuration to the Vickers VC10 and Douglas DC-9, but with a widebody fuselage.

One of the firms he approached was Vickers, a consequence of which was that he was asked if he would be the navigator for the proposed transatlantic flight, partnering John Alcock, who had already been chosen as pilot.

Aerodrome Defence Guards manning a Vickers Gun, 1944 ‎ While the RAAF did not face a significant ground threat in the first years of World War II, an Air Force Guard mustering was proposed in 1940.

In 1897, in response to the high levels of immigration to Barrow from across the UK, Vickers proposed to build a new planned town on Walney Island.

It is often incorrectly labelled with the title " Offside ", which was actually the name of an alternative commercially-released version in 1970, which was conducted by Mike Vickers.

The Vickers hardness test was developed in 1921 by Robert L. Smith and George E. Sandland at Vickers Ltd as an alternative to the Brinell method to measure the hardness of materials.

People involved in the arts and born in the town include the actress Kathleen Harrison in 1892 ; Alfred Wainwright, author of the Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells, in 1907 ; broadcaster Russell Harty in 1934 ; the internationally renowned Contemporary artist Ross Eccles in 1937, many of his paintings feature Blackburn and Lancashire scenes and landmarks ; the writer Josephine Cox in 1941 who set many of her novels in Lancashire ; the actor Anthony Valentine in 1939 ; the actor Michael Billington, star of UFO in 1941 ; actor Ian McShane in 1942 ; rock musician Tony Ashton in 1946 ; actor Jon Walmsley in 1956 ; film maker Michael Winterbottom in 1961 ; actor Steve Pemberton in 1967 ; actress Wendi Peters in 1968 ; actor / comedian Lee Mack in 1968 ; television host Debbie Travis ; author Tony O ' Neill in 1978 ; television presenter and documentary director Michael Gibson in 1980 ; and singer and actress Diana Vickers in 1991.

The Valentine remained in production until April 1944, becoming Britain's most-produced tank during the war, with 6, 855 units manufactured in the UK by Vickers, Metropolitan-Cammell Carriage and Wagon and Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon.

It was produced as the Vickers Tank Periscope MK. IV ( pictured ), and built into all British tanks ( Crusader, Churchill, Valentine, Cromwell ).

It was produced as Vickers Tank Periscope MK. IV ( pictured ), and built into all British tanks ( such as Crusader, Churchill, Valentine, Cromwell ).

The game ’ s protagonist, Jill Valentine, first encounters Nemesis outside Raccoon City ’ s police station where it kills Brad Vickers and then pursues her, uttering " STARS ..." on sight.

Vickers Armstrong also developed a SPAGG based on the chassis of the Mk. E 6-ton light tank / Dragon Medium Mark IV tractor, mounting a Vickers QF-1 " Pom-Pom " gun of 40 mm.

Warfare in the early 20th century ( 1914 – 1918 ) Clockwise from top: front line Trench warfare | Trenches, a United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | British Mark I ( tank ) | Mark I Tank crossing a trench, the Royal Navy battleship HMS Irresistible ( 1898 ) | HMS Irresistible sinking after striking a Naval mine | mine at the Naval operations in the Dardanelles Campaign | battle of the Dardanelles, a Vickers machine gun crew with gas mask s, and German Albatros D. III biplane s.

Following the issue of a Staff Requirement for a next-generation tank, Vickers formally submitted its plans for Challenger 2 to the Ministry of Defence ( MoD ).

* Vickers A1E1 Independent, British multi-turreted tank designed during the Interwar period

It was a development of the British Vickers 6-Ton tank and is widely considered one of the most successful tank designs of the 1930s.

The T-26 was a Soviet development of the British Vickers 6-Ton ( Vickers Mk. E ) light tank, which was designed by the Vickers-Armstrongs company in 1928 – 1929.

Vickers advertised the tank in military publications, and both the Soviet Union and Poland expressed interest in the Vickers design.

According to the contract signed on May 28, 1930, the company delivered to the USSR 15 twin-turreted Vickers Mk. E ( Type A, armed with two. 303 calibre ( 7. 71 mm ) water-cooled Vickers machine guns ) tanks together with full technical documentation to enable series production of the tank in the USSR.

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.

Because both tanks had advantages and disadvantages, S. Ginzburg suggested developing a more powerful, hybrid tank ( the so-called " improved " T-19 ) with the hull, home-developed engine and armament from the native T-19, and the transmission and chassis from the British Vickers 6-Ton.

On February 13, 1931, the Vickers 6-Ton light infantry tank, under the designator T-26, officially entered service in the Red Army as the " main tank for close support of combined arms units and tank units of High Command Reserve ".

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.

Also Soviet turrets had a round firing port for the DT tank machine gun, as opposed to the rectangular ports used by the original British design for the Vickers machine gun.

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.

The T-28 was in many ways similar to the British Vickers A1E1 Independent tank, which greatly influenced tank design in the period between the wars, even though only a single prototype of this trend-setter was manufactured, in 1926.

The second OKMO team, headed by N. Tsiets, worked on a tank inspired by the British Vickers A1E1 Independent.

They were armed with one or two Maxim or Vickers machine guns, which were easier to synchronize than other types, firing through the propeller arc.

Heavy guns based on the Maxim such as the Vickers machine gun were joined by many other machine weapons, which mostly had their start in the early 20th century such as the Hotchkiss machine gun.

His father, Robert, worked at Metropolitan Vickers at Trafford Park which fuelled his interest in engineering and design.

In 1928 the Aviation Department became Vickers ( Aviation ) Ltd and soon after acquired Supermarine, which became the " Supermarine Aviation Works ( Vickers ) Ltd ".

In 1986, Vickers acquired the armaments manufacturer Royal Ordnance Factory, Leeds, which became Vickers Defence Systems.

Vickers remained independent until 1999 when the then Vickers plc was acquired by Rolls-Royce plc who sold the defence arm to Alvis plc, which became Alvis Vickers.

The bombers, whose names all started with the letter " V " and which were known collectively as the V-class, were the Vickers Valiant ( first flew 1951, entered service 1955 ), Avro Vulcan ( first flew 1952, in service 1956 ) and Handley Page Victor ( first flew 1952, in service 1958 ).

Three former British European Airways ( BEA ) Vickers Vikings, which Laker had acquired in 1949 as well, were overhauled at ATL's Southend maintenance base and sold on to British Overseas Airways Corporation ( BOAC ) at a profit.

The seven resulting designs ranged from the giant Bristol Brabazon, of which only the prototype was built, to the turbine-propelled Vickers Viscount, of which 445 were built.

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.

On 2 September 1958 at 7: 10 am, a pilot of a Vickers Viking V624 ( G-AIJE ), which had just taken off from Heathrow Airport, reported that he had engine trouble.

After a political row in Parliament, the government instructed BOAC to purchase 17 Vickers VC-10 aircraft from a 30-aircraft order which Guthrie had cancelled.

The first passenger-carrying hovercraft to enter service was the Vickers VA-3, which in the summer of 1962 carried passengers regularly along the north Wales Coast from Moreton, Merseyside, to Rhyl.

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 ).

A fabric covering over the structure completed the aerodynamic shell ( see the Vickers Wellington for an example of a large warplane which uses this process ).

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

In 1951, construction of a new hard runway required a section of the motor circuit's famous Byfleet Banking to be removed to allow Vickers Valiant V bombers to be flown out to nearby Wisley aerodrome which offered a longer runway and less built-up surroundings than Brooklands.

After Keith Duckworth decided he didn't want to be involved with the day-to-day business of running a growing company, he sold out to United Engineering Industries ( UEI ) in 1980, retaining his life presidency and day-to-day technical involvement with Cosworth, and becoming a UEI board director ; UEI was a group of small to medium-sized technology companies which was taken over by Carlton Communications in 1988-Carlton was primarily interested in some of the audio-visual companies in the UEI portfolio and Cosworth was a poor fit with these ; a new buyer for the company in the engineering / automotive sector was sought and the traditional engineering company Vickers plc bought Cosworth in 1990.

It appears to have armoured vehicles at its disposal, along with MG08 heavy machine guns, Vickers machine guns, mannlicher-type rifles, Mil Mi-1 helicopters and ( presumably ) artillery, around 95 of them, along with anti-tank guns like the Canon de 75 modèle 1897, which Alcazar bought 72 in preparation of the Chapo war.

Working for the Ministry of Aircraft Production, as well as doing his own job at Vickers, he works feverishly to make practical his theory of a bouncing bomb which would skip over the water to avoid protective torpedo nets.