Vickers-Armstrongs

Vickers-Armstrongs Limited
IndustryManufacture 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 Edit this on Wikidata
PredecessorVickers Edit this on Wikidata
Founded1927
Defunct1977
FateAssets split and majority nationalised
SuccessorVickers plc
British Aircraft Corporation (est. 1960)
British Shipbuilders
British Steel Corporation
HeadquartersVickers House, Westminster, London
Key people
ParentVickers Limited
Armstrong Whitworth
SubsidiariesMetropolitan-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]

  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.