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Metropolitan-Vickers, Metrovick, or Metrovicks, was a British heavy electrical engineering company of the early-to-mid 20th century formerly known as British Westinghouse.
By 1917 Vickers were a highly diversified engineering company manufacturing ship, armaments, cars and aircraft. This merger with Westinghouse and the Metropolitan Carriage Wagon Company added electrical engineering and railway interests to the already extensive repertoire.
The Metro-Vickers Affair was an international crisis precipitated by the arrest of six British subjects who were employees of Metropolitan-Vickers, and their public trial in 1933 by the authorities in the Soviet Union on charges of "wrecking" and espionage.
The Metropolitan-Vickers F.2 is an early turbojet engine and the first British design to be based on an axial-flow compressor. It was an extremely advanced design for the era, using a nine-stage axial compressor, annular combustor, and a two-stage turbine.
The Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company was a British heavy industrial firm of the early-to-mid 20th century formerly known as British Westinghouse. Also known as Metropolitan-Vickers, Metrovick, or Metrovicks .
Metrovick initially began constructing the 'Manchester' bomber before later concentrating on its four-engined successor, the 'Lancaster'. Success in this field was exemplified by the fact that 1,000 heavy bombers had been produced by the end of the war.
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Sep 13, 2010 · By 1941, 42 Chain Home and 52 Chain Home Low stations were in operation. The Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company Ltd in Trafford Park made many contributions in the field of science during...
