Metropolitan-Vickers facts for kids
| private (subsidiary or joint ownership) | |
| Industry | heavy electrical engineering |
| Fate | brand removed in 1960, ultimately part of GEC from 1967 |
Metropolitan-Vickers, Metrovick, or Metrovicks, was a British heavy electrical engineering company of the early-to-mid 20th century formerly known as British Westinghouse. Highly diversified, they were particularly well known for their industrial electrical equipment such as generators, steam turbines, switchgear, transformers, electronics and railway traction equipment. Metrovick holds a place in history as the builders of the first commercial transistor computer, the Metrovick 950, and the first British axial-flow jet engine, the Metrovick F.2. Their factory in Trafford Park, Manchester, was for most of the 20th century one of the biggest and most important heavy engineering facilities in Britain and the world.
Images for kids
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Metropolitan-Vickers 375 KW steam turbo-alternator
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MV Logo from brass Waveguide
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Advertisement for marine turbines in Brassey's Naval and Shipping Annual 1923.
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Metrovick electric multiple unit made for Central Argentine Railway in 1931. They worked until 2002.
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Metropolitan-Vickers 10-14 cwt postal van in Manchester, 1943
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The Metrovick G.1 Gatric gas turbine from MGB 2009.
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Metropolitan-Vickers electron microscope
