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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.
In 1950, the company name was revised to Vickers-Armstrongs (Shipbuilders) and despite steel shortages prolonging production times, they secured a number of orders for the production of large tankers such as the 71,000 tonne ‘Serenia’ which was the largest British-built tanker of the time.
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.
Discusses the origins of the Armstrongs and Vickers firms and their shifts into armament production. In trying to make domestic sales Armstrongs and Vickers encountered three main challenges in dealing with the British Government.
Vickers Armstrongs' expert fleet of dedicated watchmaking engineers assembles timepiece and brings over a century of inspiration to the forefront. We understand the demands of expertly crafted watches that allow our styles to soar.
development of armoured vehicles. In tank: Interwar developments. An early example was the Vickers-Armstrong six-ton model of 1930, copied on a large scale in the Soviet Union (as the T-26). The most successful example was the BT, also built in large numbers in the Soviet Union.
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