Vickers

I received such a warm response to my LinkedIn post on the Vickers’ offices by Sheffield Forgemasters that I need to say a little more.

My books can of course also be borrowed from a public library if you don’t want to buy them. If however you do, here are the links:

Vickers also feature in my three books on Army Supply: Ordnance, War on Wheels and Dunkirk to D Day. Here is the link to that blog which has further details.

The image is of Ronald Weeks chairman of Vickers in the 1950s. Before that he was Deputy Chief of the General Staff in WW2 with responsibilities for army equipment. He also served in WW1 and then became one of the first non family directors of Pilkington.