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Metropolitan-Vickers, Metrovick, or Metrovicks, was a British heavy electrical engineering company of the early-to-mid 20th century formerly known as British Westinghouse.
The Metro-Vickers Affair was an international crisis precipitated by the arrest of six British subjects who were employees of Metropolitan-Vickers, and their public trial in 1933 by the authorities in the Soviet Union on charges of "wrecking" and espionage.
By 1917 Vickers were a highly diversified engineering company manufacturing ship, armaments, cars and aircraft. This merger with Westinghouse and the Metropolitan Carriage Wagon Company added electrical engineering and railway interests to the already extensive repertoire.
The Metropolitan-Vickers F.2 is an early turbojet engine and the first British design to be based on an axial-flow compressor. It was an extremely advanced design for the era, using a nine-stage axial compressor, annular combustor, and a two-stage turbine.
Metropolitan-Vickers Ltd. (Metrovick) The American owned firm of British Westinghouse, formed in 1899 by the American George Westinghouse, was responsible for the formation of Metropolitan-Vickers.
The Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company was a British heavy industrial firm of the early-to-mid 20th century formerly known as British Westinghouse. Also known as Metropolitan-Vickers, Metrovick, or Metrovicks .
Aug 1, 2013 · This thesis examines the gasturbine work of Metropolitan Vickers, and how the company interacted with a variety ofpartners across both the military and the civilian realms.
