Vickers (disambiguation)
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Vickers is a British engineering conglomerate founded in 1828.
Vickers may also refer to:
- Vickers Limited 1828-1927
- Vickers-Armstrongs 1927-1977
- Vickers plc 1977-1999
- Vickers Defence Systems, defence arm of Vickers plc, sold by Rolls-Royce plc to Alvis plc in 2002.
- Alvis Vickers, the result of the above merger. Acquired by BAE Systems in 2004.
- Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering (VSEL), the former shipbuilding and armaments division of Vickers
- Canadian Vickers, the Canadian subsidiary 1911-1944
- Vickers hardness test, a measure of material hardness using the indentation method
- Vickers machine gun
- Vickers MBT, a post war Main Battle Tank
[edit] Persons with the surname
- Brian Vickers, American stock car driver, currently racing in the NASCAR Sprint Cup
- Brian Vickers (academic), British authority on rhetoric
- David Vickers, a fictional character on the soap opera One Life to Live
- Diana Vickers, English singer
- Douglas Vickers, English industrialist and politician
- Edward Vickers (1804-1897), British steel maker and industrialist
- F. B. Vickers (1903-1985), Australian author
- Geoffrey Vickers (1894-1982), pioneer of systems thinking
- George Vickers, United States Senator from Maryland
- Harry Franklin Vickers (1898-1977), American inventor and industrialist
- Jack Vickers, English footballer
- James Oswald Noel Vickers, British trade union leader
- Janeene Vickers, American athlete
- Joan Vickers, Baroness Vickers, British National Liberal and Conservative Party politician
- John Vickers, British economist
- Jon Vickers, Canadian operatic tenor
- Jon Vickers (rugby union), rugby union player
- Kipp Vickers, American football player
- Lawrence Vickers, NFL fullback
- Lee Vickers, NFL tight end for the Baltimore Ravens
- Martha Vickers, American television and film actress
- Michael G. Vickers, United States Assistant Secretary of Defense
- Mike Vickers, British guitarist and composer
- Patricia Vickers-Rich (born 1944), Australian palaeontologist
- Roy Henry Vickers, Canadian painter
- Salley Vickers, English novelist
- Stan Vickers, British athlete
- Stanley Vickers (MP), English distiller and Conservative politician
- Steve Vickers (computer scientist), author of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum home computer ROM firmware
- Steve Vickers (footballer), English association footballer
- Steve Vickers (ice hockey), Canadian born hockey player with the New York Rangers
- William Edward Vickers or Roy Vickers (1889-1965), English mystery writer born
- Yvette Vickers, American actress, pin-up model and singer
[edit] See also
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