Vickers Type 163

The Vickers Type 163 was a prototype British four-engined biplane bomber of the early 1930s, built by Vickers-Armstrong as a scaled-up development of the Vickers Vanox (Type 150), with its four Rolls-Royce F.XIVS V12 engines mounted in pairs. It was submitted both as a bomber under Air Ministry specification B.19/27 and as a troop carrier under C.16/28, with provision for ten armed troops, a crew of four and nose and tail gunner positions with Lewis guns. It could carry up to twelve 250 lb bombs under the fuselage. The Type 163 first flew on 12 January 1931 and only one was produced.