Metropolitan-Vickers

Metropolitan-Vickers
Company typePrivate (subsidiary or joint ownership)
IndustryElectrical engineering
Founded1899 as British Westinghouse [1]
FounderGeorge Westinghouse
Defunct1960; 64 years ago (1960) [1]
Headquarters,
England
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
R.S. Hilton (Managing Director) [1]
ProductsElectrical generators, steam turbines, switchgear, transformers, electronics, electric locomotives, electric multiple unit trains, battery electric vehicles
ParentAssociated Electrical Industries

Metropolitan-Vickers, Metrovick, or Metrovicks, was a British heavy electrical engineering company of the early-to-mid 20th century formerly known as British Westinghouse. Highly diversified, it was particularly well known for its industrial electrical equipment such as generators, steam turbines, switchgear, transformers, electronics and railway traction equipment. Metrovick holds a place in history as the builders of the first commercial transistor computer, the Metrovick 950, and the first British axial-flow jet engine, the Metropolitan-Vickers F.2. Its factory in Trafford Park, Manchester, was for most of the 20th century one of the biggest and most important heavy engineering facilities in Britain and the world.