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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 ...
- Ativos divididos e majoritariamente nacionalizados
- Sociedade limitada
- 1927; há 96 anos
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.
- 1977
- 1927
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.
- 1828
- London, England
- Edward Vickers
- Engineering
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 ...
- 1999
- United Kingdom
- Defence, engineering, marine engineering
- Vickers-Armstrongs
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 .
Vickers Limited was a British engineering conglomerate. The business began in Sheffield in 1828 as a steel foundry and became known for its church bells, going on to make shafts and propellers for ships, armour plate and then artillery. Entire large ships, cars, tanks and torpedoes followed.
The Warwick was the largest British twin-engined aircraft to see use during the Second World War. [2] The Warwick was designed and manufactured by Vickers-Armstrongs during the late 1930s. It was intended to serve as a larger counterpart to the Vickers Wellington bomber.
