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Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd, aircraft and armaments manufacturers, shipbuilders and engineers

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The summary includes a brief description of the collection(s) (usually including the covering dates of the collection), the name of the archive where they are held, and reference information to help you find the collection.

Alternative name(s):
  • Vickers Ltd (Formerly known as)
Date: 1837-2000
Places:
  • Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire
  • London
  • Weybridge, Surrey
Functions, occupations and activities: Engineering: Mechanical > Ordnance and small arms | Engineering: Mechanical > Mechanical engineering (general) | Engineering: Mechanical > Shipbuilding and marine engineering | Engineering: Mechanical > Aircraft and aero-engines
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/C121758 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/B6764 )
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
1970-1974: propulsion machinery and machinery control and instrumentation specification for Cruise liner for K/S Nordline A/S Yard number 1085 Copenhagen and later Odessa
Cumbria Archive and Local Studies Centre, Barrow
See Annual Return 2019
2
1928-78: corporate records, incl subsidiaries
Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives
NRA 27797
3
1909-1946: misc apprenticeship certificates and papers rel to Elswick 1909-46 and corresp and photographs rel to Wolseley Tool & Motor Car Co 1910
Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives
See Annual Return 2000
4
1913, 1947-1999: misc photographs and papers
Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives
See Annual Return 2002
5
1837-1979: misc unofficial records, mainly plans and photographs rel to Elswick works
Tyne and Wear Archives
NRA 31850 Vickers-Armstrongs
6
20th cent: financial and technical reocrds
Brooklands Museum
NRA 34342 Brooklands Mus
7
1940-87: speed trials, plans of Elswick works
Tyne and Wear Archives
See Annual Return 1995
8
1945-1963: photographs
Tyne and Wear Archives
9
1946-1969: plans of ships built at Walker naval shipyard
Tyne and Wear Archives
NRA 39986
10
1940-70: drawings of ships built
Tyne and Wear Archives
See Annual Return 1996
11
1913-66: design office files
Tyne and Wear Archives
See Annual Return 2001
12
1960: papers rel to ship, 'Empress of Canada'
Tyne and Wear Archives
13
1945: long service certificate presented to John Rowney
Tyne and Wear Archives
14
1936-1937: Elswick Works: plans
Tyne and Wear Archives
15
1876-1887: Elswick Works: photographs
Tyne and Wear Archives
16
1921-1938: work book of GS Adamson, rel to research on gun mountings
Tyne and Wear Archives
17
1935-52: registers, photos and plans
Cumbria Archive and Local Studies Centre, Barrow
See Annual Return 2010
18
1916-1963: records
Cumbria Archive and Local Studies Centre, Barrow
19
20th cent: miscellaneous records rel to Vickers-Armstrongs aircraft
Royal Air Force Museum, Archive, Library and Research Department
NRA 45071
20
1925-1971: additional Barrow-in-Furness shipbuilding order and offset books
Cumbria Archive and Local Studies Centre, Barrow
See Annual Return 2014
21
1917: Vickers PLC: photographs
Bexley Local Studies and Archive Centre
See Annual Return 2019
Related record creators
  Record creator Description of relationship Dates Category of relationship
1
Following the closure of Palmers' Shipbuilding and Iron Co Ltd, Jarrow in the early 1930s, Vickers Armstrong Ltd acquired Palmers' Hebburn Yard in 1934 and created Palmers Hebburn Co Ltd
Hierarchical
2
Armstrong Whitworth & Co Ltd merged with Vickers Ltd to form Vickers Armstrong Ltd in 1927
Hierarchical