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Vickers-Armstrongs

November 21, 2023

For the modern day New Zealand aircraft company, see Vickers Aircraft Company. For other companies using the "Vickers" name, see Vickers.

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.

Vickers-Armstrongs Limited
IndustryBuilding of ships and floating structures
Manufacture of basic iron and steel and of ferro-alloys
Manufacture of military fighting vehicles
arms industry
metal industry
vehicle construction 
PredecessorVickers 
Founded1927
Defunct1977
FateAssets split and majority nationalised
SuccessorVickers plc
British Aircraft Corporation (est. 1960)
British Shipbuilders
British Steel Corporation
HeadquartersVickers House, Westminster, London
Key people
ParentVickers Limited
Armstrong Whitworth
SubsidiariesMetropolitan-Vickers
Canadian Vickers
Whitehead & Company
John Brown & Company
Sociedad Española de Construcción Naval
Supermarine Aviation Works (est. 1928)

It was one of Britain's most prominent armaments firms.[1]

History edit

Vickers merged with the Tyneside-based engineering company Armstrong Whitworth, founded by William Armstrong, to become Vickers-Armstrongs. Armstrong Whitworth and Vickers had developed along similar lines, expanding into various military sectors and produced a whole suite of military products. Armstrong Whitworth were notable for their artillery manufacture at Elswick and shipbuilding at a yard at High Walker on the River Tyne.

 
Vickers-Armstrong Works in Scotswood

1929 saw the merger of the acquired railway business with those of Cammell Laird to form Metropolitan Cammell Carriage and Wagon (MCCW); Metro Cammell.

In 1935, before rearmament began, Vickers-Armstrongs was the third-largest manufacturing employer in Britain, behind Unilever and ICI.[2]

In 1956 Dorothy Hatfield became the first female engineering apprentice at Vickers-Armstrongs (Aircraft), Brooklands,[3] followed in 1958 by Janet Gulland who was the first female graduate apprentice at the company.[4]

Break-up edit

In 1960 the aircraft interests were merged with those of Bristol, English Electric and Hunting Aircraft to form the British Aircraft Corporation (BAC). This was owned by Vickers, English Electric and Bristol (holding 40%, 40% and 20% respectively). BAC in turn owned 70% of Hunting. The Supermarine operation was closed in 1963 and the Vickers brand name for aircraft was dropped by BAC in 1965. Under the terms of the Aircraft and Shipbuilding Industries Act 1977 BAC was nationalised to become part of British Aerospace (later BAE Systems).

The Aircraft and Shipbuilding Industries Act also led to the nationalisation of Vickers' shipbuilding division as part of British Shipbuilders. This division was privatised as Vickers Shipbuilding & Engineering in 1986, later passing to GEC as part of Marconi Marine and survives to this day as part of BAE Systems Submarines.

Vickers Container and Packaging Machinery Division, including the Vickers Stitcher and Vickers Hardness Machine business, was bought by Fords Industrial Products, part of Barry Wehmiller in 1986. In 1991 the Vickers Hardness Machinery business was bought by the then field engineers, and continues today as UK Calibrations Limited based in Kidderminster. The Vickers Stitcher was still being manufactured in India as recently as 2005.

The steelmaking division became part of British Steel Corporation and the remaining interests were divested as the public company Vickers plc, whose various components were later split. The Vickers name ceased to exist in 2003 when Rolls-Royce renamed its acquisition Vinters Engineering.[5]

Businesses edit

Armaments edit

Vickers-Armstrongs inherited the Vickers machine gun of 1912 used in World War I from Vickers Limited. There were other Vickers machine guns aside from the regular water-cooled model (known universally as the "Vickers"): the Vickers-Berthier (VB) machine gun used by the Indian Army, the Vickers "K" .303 aircraft machine gun developed from it, and the Vickers "S" 40 mm aircraft gun. An unusual machine gun also made was the Vickers Higson.[6]

Vickers produced larger weapons such as the Ordnance QF 2-pounder gun used on tanks. In 1948 Vickers bought the Australian business of Charles Ruwolt Ltd for £750,000 following Ruwolt's death in 1946. During World War II Ruwolt's firm produced armaments for the Australian Government, including field artillery such as mortars and howitzer cannon.[7]

Shipbuilding edit

After the 1927 merger, the company possessed a major yard on each coast of Britain; the Naval Construction Yard of Vickers at Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria and the Naval Yard of Armstrong Whitworth at High Walker on the River Tyne. Vickers-Armstrongs was one of the most important warship manufacturers in the world. These interests were renamed as Vickers-Armstrongs Shipbuilders in 1955, changing again to Vickers Limited Shipbuilding Group in 1968. The Barrow yard was nationalised and became part of British Shipbuilders in 1977, was privatised as VSEL in 1986 and remains in operation to this day as BAE Systems Submarines. Meanwhile, the Naval Yard at High Walker on the River Tyne passed to Swan Hunter in 1968,[8] was nationalised and became part of British Shipbuilders in 1977, was privatised still as Swan Hunter in 1986 but closed down during the 1980s.[9]

Vickers-Armstrong also built the VA-3 hovercraft.

Military vehicles edit

The company was also known for its tank designs, starting with the widely used Vickers 6-Ton. It also produced the influential, if never actually produced, Independent A1E1 tank. One of the company's most important designs was the Valentine Infantry Tank, produced in the thousands in World War II. The military vehicle manufacturing interests were divested into Vickers plc, and would later pass to Alvis Vickers, now part of BAE Systems Land and Armaments.

Notable Vickers-Armstrongs military vehicles include;

Aviation edit

Vickers formed its Aviation Department in 1911. The aircraft interests of Armstrong Whitworth were not acquired in the merger and later passed to the Hawker Aircraft group. In 1928 the Aviation Department became Vickers (Aviation) Ltd and soon after acquired Supermarine Aviation Works, which became the Supermarine Aviation Works (Vickers) Ltd and was responsible for producing the revolutionary Spitfire fighter. In 1938, both companies were re-organised as Vickers-Armstrongs (Aircraft) Ltd, and a new 'art deco' headquarters designed by architect C. Howard Crane was built at its Brooklands factory in Surrey although the former Supermarine and Vickers works continued to brand their products under their former names. In 1960 the aircraft interests were one of the founding companies merged to form BAC. The hovercraft activities of Vickers-Armstrongs were merged with those of the Westland Aircraft company (including those of Saunders-Roe) to form the British Hovercraft Corporation in 1966 with Vickers holding 25% of the new company. Westland bought out Vickers interest along with other partners in 1970.

Vickers formed a subsidiary, the Airship Guarantee Company, under the direction of Cdr Dennis Burney solely for the purpose of producing the R100 airship for the government.

Between 1911 and 1970, just over 16,000 aircraft were built under the Vickers name; together the 11,462 Wellington and 846 Warwick aircraft (which were structurally similar) make up over 75% of this total.[10]

Military aircraft edit

Vickers became renowned as a manufacturer of large aircraft at its main factory at Brooklands in Surrey. In the interwar period, the company produced the Wellesley, designed by Rex Pierson using the geodetic airframe principle of structural engineer Barnes Wallis. This would later evolve into the famous Wellington bomber, a mainstay of RAF Bomber Command and RAF Coastal Command during World War II. The Cold War-era Valiant V bomber was another Vickers product.

Military aircraft with the Vickers brand:

Vickers also competed for contracts with designs such as:

Vickers Canada edit

Missiles and other weapons edit

Civilian aircraft edit

Vickers was a pioneer in producing airliners, early examples being converted from Vimy bombers. Post-WWII, Vickers went on to manufacture the piston-engined Vickers VC.1 Viking airliner, the Viscount and Vanguard turboprop airliners and (as part of BAC) the VC10 jet airliner, which was used in RAF service as an aerial refuelling tanker until 2013.

Marine engines edit

Vickers-Armstrongs was one of the few British manufacturers of marine diesel engines, notably for Royal Navy S, T-class and Estonian Kalev-class submarines during World War II.

Civilian Target and Sporting Rifles edit

After the Great War Vickers needed to diversify when the military contracts ended. Between WWI and the Second World War they introduced ranges of target and sporting rifles and shotguns, the most successful of which were their small-bore .22 rimfire target rifles. These were serious competitors to the Birmingham Small Arms equivalent products, and Vickers .22 target rifles were at the top of the major competitions' results for more than a decade. Initially these rifles were named solely for Vickers, but, after the 1927 amalgamation with Armstrongs, they became Vickers Armstrongs' products. See reference Vickers and Vickers-Armstrongs Martini target rifles and Sporting guns

In fiction edit

In The Adventures of Tintin comic The Broken Ear, the role of Vickers-Armstrongs in the Chaco War is parodied as "Viking Arms Co. Limited".[citation needed] A handgun described in a trial of Walter Mitty's alter ego is a 50 caliber Webley-Vickers revolver.[citation needed]

See also edit

References edit

  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.
  2. ^ David Edgerton (8 December 2005). Warfare State: Britain, 1920–1970. Cambridge University Press. p. 37. ISBN 978-1-139-44874-1.
  3. ^ "Dorothy Hatfield | Women's Engineering Society". www.wes.org.uk. Retrieved 26 March 2021.
  4. ^ "Brooklands Museum :: LGBTQ at Brooklands: Janet Gulland". www.brooklandsmuseum.com. Retrieved 26 March 2021.
  5. ^ "VINTERS ENGINEERING LIMITED overview - Find and update company information - GOV.UK".
  6. ^ Double-barreled automatic gun – VICKERS ARMSTRONGS LTD. Freepatentsonline.com (30 May 1950). Retrieved on 7 September 2013.
  7. ^ G. Hayes. "Ruwolt, Charles Ernest (1873–1946)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Adb.online.anu.edu.au. Retrieved 2 June 2014.
  8. ^ (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 November 2013. Retrieved 2 June 2014.
  9. ^ 3.30 pm (12 May 1993). "Hansard 1993". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Retrieved 2 June 2014.
  10. ^ Iain Murray (2012). Vickers Wellington Manual. Haynes. p. 39. ISBN 978-0-85733-230-1.

Bibliography edit

  • Andrews, C.F. (1969). Vickers Aircraft since 1908. Putnam.
  • Johnston, Ian; Buxton, Ian (2013). The Battleship Builders – Constructing and Arming British Capital Ships (Hardback). Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-1-59114-027-6.
  • Lynch, Brendan. Yesterday We Were in America - Alcock and Brown - First to fly the Atlantic non-stop. Yeovil, England: Haynes Publishing, 2009 ISBN 978 1 84425 681 5
  • Scott, J.D. (1962). Vickers: A History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson.

External links edit

  • Vickers and Vickers-Armstrongs Martini Target Rifles and Sporting Guns
  • Vickers Golden Jubilee Flight 1961

November 21, 2023
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For the modern day New Zealand aircraft company see Vickers Aircraft Company For other companies using the Vickers name see Vickers Vickers Armstrongs Limited was a British engineering conglomerate formed by the merger of the assets of Vickers Limited and Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth amp 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 Vickers Armstrongs LimitedIndustryBuilding of ships and floating structuresManufacture of basic iron and steel and of ferro alloysManufacture of military fighting vehiclesarms industrymetal industryvehicle construction PredecessorVickers Founded1927Defunct1977FateAssets split and majority nationalisedSuccessorVickers plcBritish Aircraft Corporation est 1960 British ShipbuildersBritish Steel CorporationHeadquartersVickers House Westminster LondonKey peopleGeorge EdwardsRex PiersonParentVickers LimitedArmstrong WhitworthSubsidiariesMetropolitan VickersCanadian VickersWhitehead amp CompanyJohn Brown amp CompanySociedad Espanola de Construccion NavalSupermarine Aviation Works est 1928 It was one of Britain s most prominent armaments firms 1 Contents 1 History 1 1 Break up 2 Businesses 2 1 Armaments 2 2 Shipbuilding 2 3 Military vehicles 2 4 Aviation 2 4 1 Military aircraft 2 4 2 Vickers Canada 2 4 3 Missiles and other weapons 2 4 4 Civilian aircraft 2 5 Marine engines 2 6 Civilian Target and Sporting Rifles 3 In fiction 4 See also 5 References 6 Bibliography 7 External linksHistory editVickers merged with the Tyneside based engineering company Armstrong Whitworth founded by William Armstrong to become Vickers Armstrongs Armstrong Whitworth and Vickers had developed along similar lines expanding into various military sectors and produced a whole suite of military products Armstrong Whitworth were notable for their artillery manufacture at Elswick and shipbuilding at a yard at High Walker on the River Tyne nbsp Vickers Armstrong Works in Scotswood1929 saw the merger of the acquired railway business with those of Cammell Laird to form Metropolitan Cammell Carriage and Wagon MCCW Metro Cammell In 1935 before rearmament began Vickers Armstrongs was the third largest manufacturing employer in Britain behind Unilever and ICI 2 In 1956 Dorothy Hatfield became the first female engineering apprentice at Vickers Armstrongs Aircraft Brooklands 3 followed in 1958 by Janet Gulland who was the first female graduate apprentice at the company 4 Break up edit In 1960 the aircraft interests were merged with those of Bristol English Electric and Hunting Aircraft to form the British Aircraft Corporation BAC This was owned by Vickers English Electric and Bristol holding 40 40 and 20 respectively BAC in turn owned 70 of Hunting The Supermarine operation was closed in 1963 and the Vickers brand name for aircraft was dropped by BAC in 1965 Under the terms of the Aircraft and Shipbuilding Industries Act 1977 BAC was nationalised to become part of British Aerospace later BAE Systems The Aircraft and Shipbuilding Industries Act also led to the nationalisation of Vickers shipbuilding division as part of British Shipbuilders This division was privatised as Vickers Shipbuilding amp Engineering in 1986 later passing to GEC as part of Marconi Marine and survives to this day as part of BAE Systems Submarines Vickers Container and Packaging Machinery Division including the Vickers Stitcher and Vickers Hardness Machine business was bought by Fords Industrial Products part of Barry Wehmiller in 1986 In 1991 the Vickers Hardness Machinery business was bought by the then field engineers and continues today as UK Calibrations Limited based in Kidderminster The Vickers Stitcher was still being manufactured in India as recently as 2005 The steelmaking division became part of British Steel Corporation and the remaining interests were divested as the public company Vickers plc whose various components were later split The Vickers name ceased to exist in 2003 when Rolls Royce renamed its acquisition Vinters Engineering 5 Businesses editArmaments edit Vickers Armstrongs inherited the Vickers machine gun of 1912 used in World War I from Vickers Limited There were other Vickers machine guns aside from the regular water cooled model known universally as the Vickers the Vickers Berthier VB machine gun used by the Indian Army the Vickers K 303 aircraft machine gun developed from it and the Vickers S 40 mm aircraft gun An unusual machine gun also made was the Vickers Higson 6 Vickers produced larger weapons such as the Ordnance QF 2 pounder gun used on tanks In 1948 Vickers bought the Australian business of Charles Ruwolt Ltd for 750 000 following Ruwolt s death in 1946 During World War II Ruwolt s firm produced armaments for the Australian Government including field artillery such as mortars and howitzer cannon 7 Shipbuilding edit After the 1927 merger the company possessed a major yard on each coast of Britain the Naval Construction Yard of Vickers at Barrow in Furness in Cumbria and the Naval Yard of Armstrong Whitworth at High Walker on the River Tyne Vickers Armstrongs was one of the most important warship manufacturers in the world These interests were renamed as Vickers Armstrongs Shipbuilders in 1955 changing again to Vickers Limited Shipbuilding Group in 1968 The Barrow yard was nationalised and became part of British Shipbuilders in 1977 was privatised as VSEL in 1986 and remains in operation to this day as BAE Systems Submarines Meanwhile the Naval Yard at High Walker on the River Tyne passed to Swan Hunter in 1968 8 was nationalised and became part of British Shipbuilders in 1977 was privatised still as Swan Hunter in 1986 but closed down during the 1980s 9 Vickers Armstrong also built the VA 3 hovercraft Military vehicles edit The company was also known for its tank designs starting with the widely used Vickers 6 Ton It also produced the influential if never actually produced Independent A1E1 tank One of the company s most important designs was the Valentine Infantry Tank produced in the thousands in World War II The military vehicle manufacturing interests were divested into Vickers plc and would later pass to Alvis Vickers now part of BAE Systems Land and Armaments Notable Vickers Armstrongs military vehicles include Carden Loyd tankette Cruiser Mk I Cruiser Mk II Vickers 6 ton Light Tank Mk VI Valentine Vickers MBT and under licence in India as Vijayanta Aviation edit Vickers formed its Aviation Department in 1911 The aircraft interests of Armstrong Whitworth were not acquired in the merger and later passed to the Hawker Aircraft group In 1928 the Aviation Department became Vickers Aviation Ltd and soon after acquired Supermarine Aviation Works which became the Supermarine Aviation Works Vickers Ltd and was responsible for producing the revolutionary Spitfire fighter In 1938 both companies were re organised as Vickers Armstrongs Aircraft Ltd and a new art deco headquarters designed by architect C Howard Crane was built at its Brooklands factory in Surrey although the former Supermarine and Vickers works continued to brand their products under their former names In 1960 the aircraft interests were one of the founding companies merged to form BAC The hovercraft activities of Vickers Armstrongs were merged with those of the Westland Aircraft company including those of Saunders Roe to form the British Hovercraft Corporation in 1966 with Vickers holding 25 of the new company Westland bought out Vickers interest along with other partners in 1970 Vickers formed a subsidiary the Airship Guarantee Company under the direction of Cdr Dennis Burney solely for the purpose of producing the R100 airship for the government Between 1911 and 1970 just over 16 000 aircraft were built under the Vickers name together the 11 462 Wellington and 846 Warwick aircraft which were structurally similar make up over 75 of this total 10 Military aircraft edit Vickers became renowned as a manufacturer of large aircraft at its main factory at Brooklands in Surrey In the interwar period the company produced the Wellesley designed by Rex Pierson using the geodetic airframe principle of structural engineer Barnes Wallis This would later evolve into the famous Wellington bomber a mainstay of RAF Bomber Command and RAF Coastal Command during World War II The Cold War era Valiant V bomber was another Vickers product Military aircraft with the Vickers brand Vickers R E P Type Monoplane Vickers E F B 1 Vickers F B 5 Vickers E S 1 Vickers E F B 7 Vickers E F B 8 Vickers F B 11 Vickers F B 12 Vickers F B 14 Vickers F B 16 Vickers F B 19 Vickers F B 24 Vickers F B 25 Vickers Vampire Vickers Vimy Vickers VIM Vickers Viking Vickers Vagabond Vickers Vendace Vickers Vixen Vickers Viget Vickers Valparaiso Vickers Venture Vickers Type 131 Valiant Vickers Type 123 Vickers Type 141 Vickers Type 143 a k a Bolivian Scout Vickers Jockey Vickers Type 161 Vickers Type 163 Vickers Type 177 Vickers Vespa Type 121 Wibault Scout Vickers Vireo Vickers Vellore Vickers Virginia Vickers Vanox Vickers Valentia 1918 flying boat Vickers Type 264 Valentia 1934 cargo aircraft Vickers Vernon Vickers Victoria Vickers Vildebeest Vickers Vincent Vickers Type 207 Vickers Type 253 Vickers Wellesley Vickers Venom Vickers Wellington Vickers Wellington LN514 Vickers Warwick Vickers Type 432 WWII high altitude interceptor Vickers Windsor Vickers Valetta Vickers Varsity Vickers Valiant Vickers also competed for contracts with designs such as Victory Bomber Vickers Type 559 1950s high altitude supersonic interceptor Vickers Type 010 Swallow 1950s supersonic interceptor Vickers Type 581 1950s swing wing bomber projectVickers Canada edit Canadian Vickers Vancouver Canadian Vickers Vanessa Canadian Vickers Varuna Canadian Vickers Vedette Canadian Vickers Velos Canadian Vickers Vigil Canadian Vickers VistaMissiles and other weapons edit Upkeep and Highball bouncing bombs Tallboy bomb Grand Slam bomb UB 109T Company designation was Vickers 825 Blue Boar Air to Surface television guided glider bomb from the 1950s Green lizard Surface to air missile project from the 1950s Orange William Anti tank missile project from the late 1950s Red Dean Air to air missile project Red Hebe Air to air missile project Vickers Vigilant R A E Vickers Transonic Research RocketCivilian aircraft edit Vickers was a pioneer in producing airliners early examples being converted from Vimy bombers Post WWII Vickers went on to manufacture the piston engined Vickers VC 1 Viking airliner the Viscount and Vanguard turboprop airliners and as part of BAC the VC10 jet airliner which was used in RAF service as an aerial refuelling tanker until 2013 Vickers Vimy Commercial Vickers Vulcan 1920s Vickers Type 170 Vanguard 1923 Vickers Viastra Vickers Vellox Vickers VC 1 Viking Vickers Viscount Vickers Viscount variants Vickers Vanguard Vickers V 1000 not completed Vickers VC10Marine engines edit Vickers Armstrongs was one of the few British manufacturers of marine diesel engines notably for Royal Navy S T class and Estonian Kalev class submarines during World War II Civilian Target and Sporting Rifles edit After the Great War Vickers needed to diversify when the military contracts ended Between WWI and the Second World War they introduced ranges of target and sporting rifles and shotguns the most successful of which were their small bore 22 rimfire target rifles These were serious competitors to the Birmingham Small Arms equivalent products and Vickers 22 target rifles were at the top of the major competitions results for more than a decade Initially these rifles were named solely for Vickers but after the 1927 amalgamation with Armstrongs they became Vickers Armstrongs products See reference Vickers and Vickers Armstrongs Martini target rifles and Sporting gunsIn fiction editIn The Adventures of Tintin comic The Broken Ear the role of Vickers Armstrongs in the Chaco War is parodied as Viking Arms Co Limited citation needed A handgun described in a trial of Walter Mitty s alter ego is a 50 caliber Webley Vickers revolver citation needed See also editAerospace industry in the United Kingdom Basil ZaharoffReferences edit 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 David Edgerton 8 December 2005 Warfare State Britain 1920 1970 Cambridge University Press p 37 ISBN 978 1 139 44874 1 Dorothy Hatfield Women s Engineering Society www wes org uk Retrieved 26 March 2021 Brooklands Museum LGBTQ at Brooklands Janet Gulland www brooklandsmuseum com Retrieved 26 March 2021 VINTERS ENGINEERING LIMITED overview Find and update company information GOV UK Double barreled automatic gun VICKERS ARMSTRONGS LTD Freepatentsonline com 30 May 1950 Retrieved on 7 September 2013 G Hayes Ruwolt Charles Ernest 1873 1946 Australian Dictionary of Biography Adb online anu edu au Retrieved 2 June 2014 Tyne amp Wear Archives PDF Archived from the original PDF on 3 November 2013 Retrieved 2 June 2014 3 30 pm 12 May 1993 Hansard 1993 Parliamentary Debates Hansard Retrieved 2 June 2014 Iain Murray 2012 Vickers Wellington Manual Haynes p 39 ISBN 978 0 85733 230 1 Bibliography editAndrews C F 1969 Vickers Aircraft since 1908 Putnam Johnston Ian Buxton Ian 2013 The Battleship Builders Constructing and Arming British Capital Ships Hardback Annapolis Maryland Naval Institute Press ISBN 978 1 59114 027 6 Lynch Brendan Yesterday We Were in America Alcock and Brown First to fly the Atlantic non stop Yeovil England Haynes Publishing 2009 ISBN 978 1 84425 681 5 Scott J D 1962 Vickers A History London Weidenfeld amp Nicolson External links editVickers and Vickers Armstrongs Martini Target Rifles and Sporting Guns Vickers Golden Jubilee Flight 1961 Vickers Photographic Archive Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w 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