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Vosper Thorneycroft

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Vosper Thorneycroft may refer to:

  • John I. Thornycroft & Company, a British shipbuilding firm based in Woolston, Southampton from 1904 to 2003 which merged with Vosper & Company in 1966 to form Vosper Thorneycroft which later became VT Group
  • Vosper & Company, a British shipbuilding company based in Portsmouth which merged with John I. Thornycroft & Company in 1966 to form Vosper Thorneycroft which later became VT Group
  • Babcock International, a multinational corporation headquartered in the United Kingdom which took over Vosper Thorneycroft/VT Group in 2010, and continues its UK and international operations
  • VT Group, the name of Vosper Thorneycroft from 2002 to 2012 during which period it absorbed international and US based defence and services companies; and from 2012 the name of a United States defence and services company which bought the US based operations of the former Vosper Thorneycroft company from Babcock International