Vickers (disambiguation)
Vickers is a British engineering conglomerate founded in 1828.
Vickers may also refer to:
People
- Vickers (surname)
- Baroness Vickers, a life peerage awarded to Joan Vickers, Baroness Vickers (1907-1994)
Companies
- Vickers Limited (1828-1927)
- Vickers plc (1977-1999)
- Vickers Defence Systems, defence arm of Vickers plc, sold by Rolls-Royce plc to Alvis plc in 2002
- Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering, the former shipbuilding and armaments division of Vickers
- Canadian Vickers (1911–1944), a Canadian subsidiary of Vickers Limited
- Vickers Petroleum (1918-1980), an American petroleum company unrelated to the British conglomerate
Places
- Vickers Nunatak, Ross Dependency, Antarctica, a massive nunatak
- Vickers, a community in the township of West Grey, Ontario, Canada
Other uses
- Vickers machine gun, produced by Vickers Limited
See also
- Vickers-Armstrongs (1927-1977), arising from the merger of Vickers Limited with Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth & Company
- Vicker (disambiguation)
- Vicar (disambiguation)
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