Vickers (disambiguation)
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Vickers may refer to:
- Vickers plc, a British engineering conglomerate founded in 1828. Acquired by Rolls-Royce plc in 1999.
- Timeline
- 1828 - Vickers Company
- 1867 - Vickers, Sons & Company
- 1897 - Vickers, Sons & Maxim
- 1927 - Armstrong-Whitworth
- Timeline
- 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 Limited (VSEL), the former shipbuilding and armaments division of Vickers nationalised in 1977, privatised in 1986.
- Vickers hardness test, a measure of material hardness using the indentation method
- The Vickers machine gun
- Brian Vickers, an American stock car driver, currently racing in the NASCAR Nextel cup.
- Vickers Football Club, a competative soccer team based in Markham, ON, Canada.
- Roy Henry Vickers, a Canadian painter
- Roy Vickers, an English mystery writer
