Vickers-Armstrongs

Vickers-Armstrongs Limited
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	George Edwards; Rex Pierson;
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.

[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.

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