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

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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	BDB 16/L/1988	See Annual Return 2019
2	1928-78: corporate records, incl subsidiaries	Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives	MS Vickers	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	VICKERS 1938-39	See Annual Return 2000
4	1913, 1947-1999: misc photographs and papers	Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives	VICKERS 1942-44	See Annual Return 2002
5	1837-1979: misc unofficial records, mainly plans and photographs rel to Elswick works	Tyne and Wear Archives	D.VA	NRA 31850 Vickers-Armstrongs
6	20th cent: financial and technical reocrds	Brooklands Museum	VAA	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	DX1529
9	1946-1969: plans of ships built at Walker naval shipyard	Tyne and Wear Archives	DS.VA	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	Acc no 3965	See Annual Return 2001
12	1960: papers rel to ship, 'Empress of Canada'	Tyne and Wear Archives	DX982
13	1945: long service certificate presented to John Rowney	Tyne and Wear Archives	DX989
14	1936-1937: Elswick Works: plans	Tyne and Wear Archives	DX1081
15	1876-1887: Elswick Works: photographs	Tyne and Wear Archives	D.VA/57/1-13
16	1921-1938: work book of GS Adamson, rel to research on gun mountings	Tyne and Wear Archives	DX1126
17	1935-52: registers, photos and plans	Cumbria Archive and Local Studies Centre, Barrow	BDX 574	See Annual Return 2010
18	1916-1963: records	Cumbria Archive and Local Studies Centre, Barrow	BDB 16
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	BDX 697	See Annual Return 2014
21	1917: Vickers PLC: photographs	Bexley Local Studies and Archive Centre	PHVIC	See Annual Return 2019

Related record creators
	Record creator	Description of relationship	Dates	Category of relationship
1	Palmers Hebburn Co Ltd, shiprepairers	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	Sir WG Armstrong, Whitworth & Co Ltd, shipbuilders and locomotive builders	Armstrong Whitworth & Co Ltd merged with Vickers Ltd to form Vickers Armstrong Ltd in 1927		Hierarchical