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Vickers-Armstrongs Limited foi um conglomerado de empresas de engenharia britânica formada pela fusão dos ativos da Vickers Limited e Armstrong Whitworth em 1927. [1] A empresa foi nacionalizada entre as décadas de 1960 e 1970 e deixou de existir em 1977, quando as áreas de produtivas foram adquiridas pela Vickers plc , British ...
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.
In 1927, Vickers merged with the Tyneside-based engineering firm Armstrong Whitworth to form Vickers-Armstrongs. Armstrong Whitworth developed in a similar way to Vickers, expanding into various military fields and became famous for its artillery construction at Elswick and shipbuilding at its yard at High Walker upon Tyne.
Em 1927, uma fusão com a Armstrong Whitworth, fez dela a Vickers-Armstrongs, Ltd, sendo estatizada nos anos 60. Partes da empresa formaram desde 1977 a Vickers plc que comprou o fabricante de automóveis Rolls-Royce em 1980 e o fabricante inglês de motores Cosworth em 1990 , sendo vendidos em 1998 para Volkswagen .
The Vickers Type 559 was a supersonic interceptor aircraft design by the British aircraft company Vickers-Armstrongs and was their submission for Operational Requirement F.155 in 1955. It was not accepted for further consideration; the most valued submissions being from Armstrong Whitworth and Fairey , however the F.155 requirement ...
Vickers plc was the remainder of Vickers-Armstrongs after the nationalisation of three of its four operating groups: aviation (as a 50% share since 1960 of British Aircraft Corporation (BAC) in 1977), shipbuilding ( Vickers Limited Shipbuilding Group in 1977) and steel. It was purchased by Rolls-Royce plc in 1999, and the Vickers ...
The Vickers Wellington is a British twin-engined, long-range medium bomber. It was designed during the mid-1930s at Brooklands in Weybridge, Surrey. Led by Vickers-Armstrongs' chief designer Rex Pierson; a key feature of the aircraft is its geodetic airframe fuselage structure, which was principally designed by Barnes Wallis.
