Metropolitan Vickers

Metropolitan Vickers
legal form	subsidiary
founding	1919
resolution	1960
Reason for dissolution	acquired by Associated Electrical Industries
Seat	Trafford Park , Manchester , United Kingdom
Branch	Electrical engineering

Metropolitan Vickers Gatric gas turbine

Steam turbo generator

Electron microscope manufactured by Metropolitan Vickers

Metropolitan Vickers nameplate on a SAR class 1E locomotive (1926)

Metropolitan Vickers was a British electrical engineering company based in Trafford Park , Manchester , England .

history

The company was founded in 1899 as the British Westinghouse Electrical and Manufacturing Company , a subsidiary of the American Westinghouse Electric Corporation . In 1917 she was accepted by the Metropolitan Carriage, Wagon and Finance Company ; and Vickers jointly acquired. It became Metropolitan Vickers in 1919 when Vickers took complete control. Metropolitan-Vickers was merged with the British Thomson-Houston Company in 1928 and the combined group was acquired by Associated Electrical Industries the following year . In 1960, Metropolitan-Vickers and the various other subsidiaries of Associated Electrical Industries were combined as one company.

Web links

Commons : Metropolitan-Vickers  -Collection of Pictures

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} "History of Metropolitan Vickers Ltd" on British Telephones.com
2. ^ Scott, JD: Vickers: A History - George Weidenfeld and Nicolson Ltd, London (1963)

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