Category:Vickers (company)

**Vickers**
	famous name in British engineering that existed through many companies
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Instance of	business;
Industry	weapons industry; Manufacture of military fighting vehicles (derived from NACE classification in 20th Century Press Archives); building of ships and floating structures (derived from NACE classification in 20th Century Press Archives); manufacture of air and spacecraft and related machinery (derived from NACE classification in 20th Century Press Archives); machinery industry and plant construction; vehicle construction;
Named after	Edward Vickers;
Location	United Kingdom;
Owned by	BAE Systems;
Headquarters location	Barrow-in-Furness;
Inception	1828;
Dissolved, abolished or demolished date	1999;
Followed by	Vickers-Armstrongs;
Replaces	ABC Motors;
Different from	Vickers Limited;
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English: Vickers was a major British engineering and armaments company. First known from 1828 as Naylor, Vickers and Company; as Vickers, Sons and Company from 1867; Vickers, Sons and Maxim (VSM) from 1897 when it took over Maxim-Nordenfelt; Vickers-Armstrongs from 1927 when it took over Armstrong-Whitworth. It was broken up in the 1960s and 1970s and the name survives today in Vickers Defence Systems Ltd.

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