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	Vickers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The role of Vickers Armstrong in the Chaco War is parodied as Viking Arms Co. Limited in Tintin's comic-book The Broken Ear.
		Vickers was a pioneer in producing airliners, early examples being converted from Vimy bombers, and went on to manufacture the piston-engined Vickers VC.1 Viking airliner and Varsity military crew trainer, the Viscount and Vanguard turboprop airliners, and the stylish though noisy VC-10 jet airliner, which remains in RAF service as an aerial refuelling tanker.
		Vickers Sons and Maxim began work on a rigid airship for the British Admiralty in mid 1909 in a dock at Walney Island, Cumbria, sadly it disintegrated upon its second trip out of a floating hangar on the evening of 23 September 1911.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vickers

	Vickers Viscount - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The resulting Vickers Type 630 design was completed at Brooklands by Chief Designer Rex Pierson and his staff in 1945, a thirty-two seat airliner powered by four Rolls-Royce Dart engines for an improved cruising speed of 275 mph (443 km/h).
		There was some work on replacing the Darts with the Armstrong Siddeley Mamba, but this was dropped by the time the prototypes were reaching completion.
		Vickers Viscount Model 701 of Cambrian Airways at Bristol Airport, England, 1963.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vickers_Viscount

	Untitled Document
		These were the basic parameters around which Vickers Armstrongs pursued their design studies In the interval since the cancellation of the V1000 project, Boeing in the United States had successfully introduced the Boeing 707 airliner.
		With government pressure, B.O.A.C., who would rather have purchased the Boeing 707 and standardised its fleet structure, signed a contract with Vickers Armstrongs for thirty-five VC10s.
		Vickers, meanwhile, had completed their development studies and had evolved a four-engined intercontinental airliner capable of meeting the most stringent operating conditions in the world - the VC10.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/PeterDavis1/ch9.htm

	Vickers Wellington - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Vickers Wellington was a twin-engine, medium bomber designed in the mid-1930s at Brooklands in Weybridge, Surrey, by Vickers-Armstrongs' Chief Designer, R.K. Pierson.
		Nevertheless, in the late 1930s Vickers succeeded in building Wellingtons at a rate of one per day at Weybridge and 50 per month at Chester.
		Mk VII Single aircraft, built as a test-bed for the 40 mm Vickers S machine gun turret.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vickers_Wellington

	Vickers Ltd
		Vickers is also famous for the R.100 airship of 1930.
		Famous Vickers aircraft include the Vimy (first non-stop flight across the Atlantic in 1919), the Wellington bomber of World War II, the Viscount turbo-prop airliner and the VC10 jet airliner.
		Vickers Ltd, a giant shipbuilding, engineering and arms conglomerate established an aviation department in 1911.
	www.kensaviation.com /vickers.htm

	The Vickers Machine Gun: The 0.5" Vickers M.G.
		The Vickers Machine Gun: The 0.5" Vickers M.G. As you will already know if you have read the BRITISH SERVICE page of my website, the Vickers Machine Gun was used in two main calibres by the British Army.
		The.5" Vickers fitted into Light Tanks were useless as an Anti-Armour weapon as by the time war broke out, if not before, the.5" was obsolete as a 'Tank-killing' round.
		Their was no need for a muzzle booster in any of the.5" Vickers guns due to the superior power that the.5" cartridge held.
	www.vickersmachinegun.org.uk /50cal.html

	Vickers & BAC
		Vickers' aviation activities transferred to Aircraft Division of Vickers-Armstrong Ltd.
		Vickers Ltd. was known as a shipbuilder, but early in the 20th century they became involved in aviation, as early as 1908 the Admiralty ordered the R.1 airship from Vickers.
		As far back as 1919 Vickers was already famous for the first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic Ocean when Alcock and Brown flew their converted Vickers Vimy bomber from Newfoundland to a crash landing in an Irish bog.
	www.vc10.net /History/vc10_origins.html

	Wisley Airfield
		Opened 60 years ago, Wisley Airfield was closely associated with the Vickers-Armstrongs/BAC aircraft factory at Brooklands as its Flight Test Centre for 28 years.
		Vickers argued that the new airfield was essential to the construction of heavy bombers at Brooklands and that the factory would otherwise relocate elsewhere.
		Vickers was also seriously disappointed that year when the advanced V1000 military transport was cancelled - despite the prototype almost being completed at Wisley.
	jct001.mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk /page5.html

	Vickers - History Page
		Development and production of the four-engined, turbofan-powered VC10 airliner, whose origins went back to the cancelled V1000 project of the mid-1950s, was continued by the British Aircraft Corporation in which Vickers-Armstrongs (Aircraft) Ltd, so named after reorganisation in December 1954, became a 40% shareholder in February 1960.
		During wartime, the Vickers factories at Brooklands, Weybridge, Surrey and at Crayford, Bexley Heath and Erith on the south-eastern outskirts of London, were kept busy building large numbers of BE2s, SE5a's and Sopwith 1½ Strutters, as well as several prototypes of its own.
		Among the earliest designs of Vickers Ltd (Aviation Department) was the EFB (Experimental Fighting Biplane) pusher of 1913, which led to many more army pushers, including the FB5 (Fighting Biplane No 5) and the improved and faster FB9.
	www.vickers-aircraft.com /History_page.html

	Vickers 6-Ton Tank (Mk. E)
		According to a source [2], Vickers works in Elswick built 153 tanks Mark E. The USSR and Poland bought a licence of Vickers Mk.E. Basing on it, and later developing the design, the USSR produced over 12,000 tanks of the family T-26, while in Poland the 7TP tank was developed.
		Vickers Mk.E Type A in an export configuration, with Vickers MG's (the tank has rubber-rimmed rear pair of wheels, which is quite unusual).
		The features of Vickers Mk.E, especially its suspension, had some influence on many later world's tank designs, including Italian medium tanks from M-11/39 to P-40, and Czech tanks Skoda LT vz.35 (PzKpfw-35(t)) and T-21 (Turan) (however, an opinion, that their suspension was copied from Vickers, is obviously false).
	derela.republika.pl /vae.htm

	Vickers Mk.E tank in Polish service
		Eight Vickers tanks, along with tankettes of the 11th company, supported the attack of the motorized 1st mounted rifle regiment, from the north-west of the town (other Polish units were attacking from the west).
		The armour of Polish Vickers Mk.E tanks was the same, as of other Vickers Mk.E tanks: riveted of rolled armour plates; thickness: hull front and sides - 13mm, rear - 8mm, turrets of both variants - 13mm all around, top and bottom - 5mm.
		The second unit to use Vickers tanks was the 12th light tank company of the Warsaw Armoured-Motorized Brigade (WBP-M), commanded by Cpt.
	derela.republika.pl /vickers.htm

	WW2 Warbirds: the Vickers Wellington Wimpey - Frans Bonné
		Vickers Wellington B.Mk IV Shortly after the War had started the Air Ministry realised that the Wellington would have to do yet for quite some time since the four-engined heavy bombers were too far off yet.
		Vickers Wellington C.Mk XV When the early versions of the Wellington were withdrawn from front-line use, the aircraft were put to good use in other roles.
		Vickers decided to enter the contest since it had gained experience with its Wellesley design in which new kinds of structures were used making the aircraft very sturdy.
	www.xs4all.nl /~fbonne/warbirds/ww2htmls/vickwelling.html

	Vickers Type 271 Wellington
		In October 1938, Vickers (Aviation) Limited and the Supermarine Aviation Works (Vickers) Limited were taken over by Vickers-Armstrongs Limited based in Weybridge (Brooklands), Surrey.
		For high-altitude bombing Vickers was asked to investigate the provision of a pressure cabin in the Wellington: the resulting Mk V was powered by two turbocharged Hercules VIII engines.
		These requirements were surpassed by the Vickers proposal, which was for a mid-wing medium day bomber with two Rolls-Royce Goshawk engines and retractable landing gear, able to carry more than 4,500 lbs (2041 kg) of bombs, and having a maximum range of 2,800 miles (4506 km).
	www.kotfsc.com /aviation/wellington.htm

	Vickers Aircraft - Big Aircraft Guide
		This is a Vickers aircraft valve from an unknown aircraft.
		Describes all the Vickers aircraft from the early Gunbus and the Vimy, through designs of the...
		Vickers Aircraft Since 1908 by CF Andrews and EB Morgan.
	www.bigaircraftguide.com /vickers-aircraft.html

	Independent, The (London): Obituary: Sir George Edwards
		He was quickly pulling his full weight as a member of the formidable Vickers Armstrongs aircraft team at Weybridge under McLean's chairmanship, with Hew Kilner as managing director, Tom Gammon as works manager, and Barnes Wallis on special projects.
		In all, 1,486 Vickers and BAC aircraft- from Vikings to One Elevens - were designed and built under Edwards's leadership (and several hundred remain in service) together with the collaboration Concordes, Jaguars and Tornados.
		The result was the Vickers Wellesley - a combination of Barnes Wallis's ideas for a geodetic structure and Pierson's long experience of aircraft for the Royal Air Force.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20030307/ai_n12676523

	The Fighter Collection - Spitfire XXII
		Her days with the RAF were numbered however, when the aircraft was declared non-effective on the 16th of June 1953, and then sold back to Vickers Armstrongs on the 4th of February 1954.
		Quite what Vickers did with the aircraft after buying her back from the RAF isn't clear, but it was to be early 1957 before she re-appeared again, this time on the strength of the Station Flight at RAF North Weald, home of No 604 RAuxAF squadron.
		Details of the work carried out are not available at the moment, but the machine remained with Vickers until the 29th of May 1947 before passing back into storage, this time with No 6 MU at RAF Brize Norton who recorded her arrival seven days after the completion of the mods at South Marston.
	fighter-collection.com /pages/aircraft/spit_xxii/index.php

	bang wife vicki
		The Lance Armstrongs of the world, who are only in it for...
		What is particularly interesting in Dr. John Brooks case in S.L.O. CA., and Brian Armstrongs in N.H. is each EX-wife then got to sue civil...
		Brooks gave haircuts in the 1970s to the Armstrongs' young sons, Mark and Eric.
	wife.e-compare.info /bang-wife-vicki

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: Voices from Vickers: The Workers' Story
		Vickers, whose tank factory is located on the banks of the Tyyne at Scotswood, has its origins in W.G. Armstrong's works founded at Elswick in 1847.
		Becoming Armstrong Whitworth, then Vickers Armstrongs, and later Vickers Defence Systems, the output of that engineering empire has been remarkable - from warships to tanks, from aeroplanes to trains, and from guns to cranes.
		In Voices from Vickers some of the men and women who worked at the Scotswood and Elswick factories between the 1930s and the 1980s look back on their experiences, as apprentices, as wartime workers, as engineers and draughtsmen.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/1857951115

	WRG - British Aircraft Resource Center - Vickers-Armstrongs Wellington
		Brownings in Vickers turrets at nose and tail.
		Used to test 40mm Vickers S gun turret for P.92 fighter.
		V: Experimental high altitude, pressurised cabin with turbo-charged Hercules VIII.
	www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org /BARC/wellington.html

	The Barrow Island Web site ... www.barrow-island.com
		Vickers Armstrongs Aircraft,Vickers Ltd, Shipbuilding group, Barrow Engineers Works.
		The present owner is BAE Systems,But today the shipyard is still know as 'Vickers'
		Vickers Shipbuilding Group (A member Company of British Shipbuilders)
	www.barrow-island.com /yard.htm

	Aircraft: Vickers Viking IV
		1954 -1959 I served an apprenticeship at Vickers Armstrongs Aircraft Ltd, later BRitish Aircraft Corp. and still later part of the BAe group.
		The Viking was a postwar transport using the wing and engines(Bristol Hercules)of the Wellington Bomber.
		A prop had to be used at the rear of the A/C when loading as the CofG was dangerously aft!!
	aeroweb.brooklyn.cuny.edu /specs/vickers/vic-vik4.htm

	SS Strathaird
		She was released after completion of her final service in May 1948, and went to Vickers Armstrongs on the Tyne for refitting for P and O service once more.
		Like all the others, she was constructed by Vickers Armstrongs at Barrow.
		The Strathmore was launched on 4th April 1935 by the Duchess of York (now the Queen Mother).
	www.thestrathallan.com /strathmore.htm

	The Vickers Machine Gun: Gun Markings
		This page is designed to give the Vickers MG owner a helping hand in identifying their Vickers MG and where it came from, when it was built etc, etc.
		As there are several types of Vickers MG for each serail number grouping, it is important that we distinguish between them in order to get the correct information.
		The first and foremost important item that a Vickers MG has is the serial number.
	www.vickersmachinegun.org.uk /markings.html

	Vickers - Publications - Vickers-Armstrongs Wellington - Crowood
		The Vickers-Armstrongs Wellington was the mainstay of RAF Bomber Command in the early years of World War Two.
		Vickers - Publications - Vickers-Armstrongs Wellington - Crowood
		Ken Delve traces the history of this adaptable aeroplane from the drawing boards of Brooklands through hostile skies to the eventual peace it helped to provide.
	www.vickers-aircraft.com /Publications_wellington_crowood.html

	What Value is Image?
		Another first included the tank in World War I. In 1897, Armstrongs merged with the business of another great Victorian engineer, Sir Joseph Whitworth, to become Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth & Co Ltd. During this period the Vickers Company of Sheffield was developing along similar lines.
		The Defence Systems business of Vickers PLC traces its history back to 1847, when W G Armstrong, later Lord Armstrong, established an engineering works on Tyneside to manufacture his newly invented hydraulic machinery.
		Then in 1927, Vickers and Armstrong-Whitworth merged their defence businesses into a new subsidiary called Vickers-Armstrongs.
	www.design-works.co.uk /aware/dne/dfiles/Oct_2001.asp

	CLASS 24 AND 25
		Much of this training was to be carried out at Vickers Armstrong, Barrow and Colin became the ideal candidate for this task based on his broad experience of BR training and his hands-on work at Hither Green and Hornsey.
		In the field Colin worked at Hornsey & Hither Green, then moving to Vickers Armstrongs, Barrow as the engine production increased, working alongside the resident Swiss engineers.
		A further twelve followed in 1956/57, with the power units built by Vickers Armstrongs, Barrow, their first.
	www.derbysulzers.com /colin.html

	The Tank Museum - Bovington - Latest News and Press Releases
		According to one it is because Vickers-Armstrongs, as they were then, presented the tank to the War Office on St Valentine's Day 1939 - only they didn't.
		Then there are those that say it is an acronym as follows Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd.
		Another says it was a tribute to Vickers' chief tank designer, Sir John VALENTINE Carden who died in an air crash, but that was in 1935.
	www.tankmuseum.co.uk /newsrel_0504.html

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		The main propulsion machinery for both the Apapa and the Accra were two four-cylinder Vickers Doxford oil engines.
		The hull was white with a yellow line and green boot-topping.
		The promenade deck had a lounge, smoke room, card room, library, hairdressing salons, shop, bar, nursery and hospital units.
	www.lind.org.zw /ships/dempster_line/accra.htm

	wellington
		Although the first Wellington was taken on strength by the RAF in 1938, they were still rolling off the assembly line at Vickers in 1944 for use in the Far East, The Med and on OTU's in the UK.
		Operationally, the Wellington was well suited to its role in the dust and heat of the North African Desert and Southern Italy.
		Over 11,000 Wellingtons of all Marks were built, making it the most numerous bomber in the RAF.
	www.perth.igs.net /~long/wellington.htm

	3 x Rare Original W.W.II. Supermarine Spitfire Blueprints (Chris Balm Early Aviation & Motoring Items)
		3 x original blueprints from "Vickers Armstrongs Ltd. - Supermarine Works" relating to the Spitfire Mk.XVIII "F" and "FR" (Fighter and Fighter Reconnaissance) versions.
		Dating from between 17th January and 5th April 1945.
		Description : Shows detailed plans for Spitfire camouflage scheme, detailing different versions for prototype aircraft and those with standard and clipped wings.
	www.cjbalm.com /auto-aero/aitem95.htm

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