Vickers-Armstrongs was a British engineering and armaments company formed in 1927 by the merger of the Vickers and Armstrong Whitworth interests. It built warships, locomotives, tanks and aircraft. In aviation its products included the Vimy bomber, the Wellington, the Viscount turboprop airliner that began commercial service in 1953, and the VC10 jet airliner, and its Supermarine subsidiary produced the Spitfire. The company's aircraft business was absorbed into the British Aircraft Corporation in 1960.
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formed by the merger of the assets of Vickers Limited and Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth & Company in 1927
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