Vickers Ltd. were a British arms company and manufacturer of weapons, airplanes, machines and ships.

Vickers built fighters, bombers and passenger airlines from 1911 to 1962 among other things.

Vickers was involved also in the building by airships. So there for example at the beginning of the 1930er years the English rigid airship R100, one of the largest airships of the world was manufactured.

Vickers belongs today to BAE of SYSTEM.

Airplanes

• Valetta C2
• Viking I
• EFB 1 (1913)
• FB 5 (1914)
• FB 9 (1915)
• FB 12 (1916)
• FB 19 (1916)
• FB 27: Bomber (1917)
• Vimy (1919)
• Vedette: Seeflugzeug (1925)
• Valentia: Transporter (1934)
• Wellington: twin-engine reconnaissance aircraft/bomber (1936)
• Viking (1945)
• FB 26 Vampire: Jet bomber (1946)
• Varsity
• Vincent
• Virginia
• Warwick
• Merchantman
• Vanguard (1959)
• Viscount: four-engined turbo-prop. airliner for short distances (1948)
• Valiant: four-jet bomber (1951)
• VC10: four-jet long-distance jet (1962)

See also

• Vickers machine gun
• Hardness test after Vickers

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