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| Industry | Manufacture of basic iron and steel and of ferro-alloys Manufacture of military fighting vehicles arms industry building of ships and floating structures metal industry vehicle construction  |
|---|---|
| Predecessor | Vickers |
| Founded | 1927 |
| Defunct | 1977 |
| Fate | Assets split and majority nationalised |
| Successor | Vickers plc British Aircraft Corporation (est. 1960) British Shipbuilders British Steel Corporation |
| Headquarters | Vickers House, Westminster, London |
Key people | |
| Parent | Vickers Limited Armstrong Whitworth |
| Subsidiaries | Metropolitan-Vickers Canadian Vickers Whitehead & Company John Brown & Company Sociedad Española de Construcción Naval Supermarine Aviation Works (est. 1928) |
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.[1]
- ^ Spear, Joanna (2023). The Business of Armaments: Armstrongs, Vickers and the International Arms Trade, 1855–1955. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781009297516. ISBN 978-1-009-29752-3. S2CID 256162790.