Vickers-Armstrongs
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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. The majority of the company was nationalised in the 1960s and 1970s, with the remainder being divested as Vickers plc in 1977.
Key facts
- Company.name
- Vickers-Armstrongs Limited
- Company.logo
- Vickers Armstrong.png
- Company.logo_size
- 200px
- Company.fate
- Assets split and majority nationalised
- Company.successor
- Vickers plcBritish Aircraft Corporation (est. 1960)British ShipbuildersBritish Steel Corporation
- Company.foundation
- 1927
- Company.defunct
- 1977
- Company.location
- Vickers House, Westminster, London
- Company.parent
- Vickers LimitedArmstrong Whitworth
- Company.subsid
- Metropolitan-VickersCanadian VickersWhitehead & CompanyJohn Brown & CompanySociedad Española de Construcción NavalSupermarine Aviation Works (est. 1928)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- aerospace manufacturer
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Headquarters
- Millbank Tower
- Parent organization
- Vickers Limited
- Industry
- weapons industry
- Follows
- Vickers
- Image
- River Tyne.Scotswood Bridge.Vickers Armstrong Works - geograph.org.uk - 486153.jpg
Show 5 more facts
- replaces
- Vickers Limited
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1977-00-00
- inception
- 1927-00-00
- has works in the collection
- Het Scheepvaartmuseum
- Commons category
- Vickers Armstrong Shipbuilders Ltd.
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
18 sectionsContents
- History
- Break-up
- Businesses
- Armaments
- Shipbuilding
- Military vehicles
- Aviation
- Military aircraft
- Vickers Canada
- Missiles and other weapons
- Civilian aircraft
- Marine engines
- Civilian Target and Sporting Rifles
- In fiction
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
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. The majority of the company was nationalised in the 1960s and 1970s, with the remainder being divested as Vickers plc in 1977.
It featured among Britain's most prominent armaments firms.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Vickers-Armstrongs” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.