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    The Vickers 6-ton tank or Vickers Mark E, also known as the "Six-tonner", was a British light tank designed in 1928 in a private project at Vickers. Though...
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    The Vickers machine gun or Vickers gun is a water-cooled .303 British (7.7 mm) machine gun produced by Vickers Limited, originally for the British Army...
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    Vickers was a British engineering company that existed from 1828 until 1999. It was formed in Sheffield as a steel foundry by Edward Vickers and his father-in-law...
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  • Vickers-Armstrongs Limited was a British engineering conglomerate formed by the merger of the assets of Vickers Limited and Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth...
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    Greta Scacchi and Richard E. Grant. Vickers starred with Carryl Thomas in the thriller film Death in Shoreditch. In 2022, Vickers had a main role as Sauron...
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    and their Chief Designer Archie Low drew up a new design, the Vickers Type 18, or Vickers E.F.B.2. This was a two-bay biplane powered by a single 80 hp...
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    The Vickers hardness test was developed in 1921 by Robert L. Smith and George E. Sandland at Vickers Ltd as an alternative to the Brinell method to measure...
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    The Vickers Viscount is a British medium-range turboprop airliner first flown in 1948 by Vickers-Armstrongs. A design requirement from the Brabazon Committee...
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    Martha Vickers (born Martha MacVicar; May 28, 1925 – November 2, 1971) was an American model and actress. Vickers was born Martha MacVicar in Ann Arbor...
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  • Joan Helen Vickers, Baroness Vickers, DBE (3 June 1907 – 23 May 1994) was a British National Liberal and later Conservative Party politician. She was...
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  • Larry Allen Vickers (born June 1963) is a retired soldier, former firearms instructor, and author. He is the founder of Vickers Tactical, and co-founder...
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    The Vickers .5 inch machine gun (officially "Gun, Machine, Vickers, .5-in") also known as the Vickers .50 was a large-calibre British automatic weapon...
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    The Vickers MBT is a series of main battle tanks (MBTs) developed as a private venture by British company Vickers-Armstrongs for export. The design makes...
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  • Metropolitan-Vickers, then merging the remaining bulk of the original business with Armstrong Whitworth to form Vickers-Armstrongs. The Vickers name resurfaced...
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    Diana Vickers (born 30 July 1991) is an English singer, songwriter and actress. She was semi-finalist on The X Factor in 2008. Vickers signed a record...
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    Wellington, the other being the Vickers Wellesley. A larger heavy bomber aircraft designed to Specification B.1/35, the Vickers Warwick, was developed in parallel...
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  • The Vickers VC.1 Viking is a British twin-engine short-range airliner derived from the Vickers Wellington bomber and built by Vickers-Armstrongs Limited...
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    Commons has media related to Martin Vickers. Martin Vickers MP Martin Vickers MP official constituency website Martin Vickers MP Conservative Party profile...
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    years. The Red Army, with its purchase of the British Vickers Carden Loyd tankette, Vickers E-Light and Cruiser Mk II Medium tanks, and of the American...
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    The Vickers–Berthier (VB) is a light machine gun that was produced by the British company Vickers-Armstrong. It was adopted by the British Indian Army...
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    The Vickers VC10 is a mid-sized, narrow-body long-range British jet airliner designed and built by Vickers-Armstrongs (Aircraft) Ltd and first flown at...
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    with the letter "V". Vickers' submission had initially been rejected as not being as advanced as the Victor and the Vulcan, but Vickers' chief designer George...
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  • designed and manufactured by Vickers-Armstrongs during the late 1930s. It was intended to serve as a larger counterpart to the Vickers Wellington bomber. The...
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  • 1948 Summer Olympics. Jim Vickers at Olympedia Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Jim Vickers Olympic Results". Olympics...
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    The Vickers Vanguard was a short/medium-range turboprop airliner designed and produced by the British aircraft manufacturer Vickers-Armstrongs. The Vanguard...
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    The Vickers Vimy was a British heavy bomber aircraft developed and manufactured by Vickers Limited. Developed during the latter stages of the First World...
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  • subsidiary of Vickers Limited, it built its own aircraft designs as well as others under licence. Canadair absorbed the Canadian Vickers aircraft operations...
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    on Vickers 6-Ton light tank (also known as Vickers Mark E light tank)) 7TP jw light tank (based on Vickers 6-Ton light tank (also known as Vickers Mark...
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    Later versions of the aircraft were known as the Vickers Vulture and Vickers Vanellus. Research on Vickers' first amphibious aircraft type began in December...
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  • Sir John Stuart Vickers (born 7 July 1958) is a British economist and the Warden of All Souls College, Oxford. Vickers studied at Aylesbury Grammar School...
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