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When AEI attempted to remove the doubled-up management structures, they found this task to be even more difficult. By the mid-1960s the company was struggling under the weight of two complete management hierarchies, and they appeared to be unable to control the company any more. This allowed AEI to
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Metrovick and BTH was eventually ended in an unconvincing fashion when the AEI management eventually decided to rid themselves of both brands and be known as AEI universally, a change they made on 1 January 1960. This move was almost universally resented within both companies.
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for assembly and testing of its
Lancasters, before a policy switch was made to assembling them in a hangar at Avro's Woodford airfield. By the end of the war, MV had built 1,080 Lancasters. These were followed by 79
421:, manufacturers of electrical switchgear in Openshaw, Manchester. The rivalry between Metrovick and BTH continued, and AEI was never able to exert effective control over the two competing subsidiary companies.
595:. Considered to be too complex to bother with, Metrovick then re-engineered the design once again to produce roughly double the power, while at the same time starting work on a much larger design, the
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which standardized electrical supply and led to a massive expansion of electrical distribution, installations, and appliance purchases. Sales shot up, and 1927 marked the company's best year to date.
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of the
Metropolitan Carriage, Wagon and Finance Company for almost £13 million. On 8 September 1919, Vickers changed the name of the British Westinghouse Electrical and Manufacturing Company to
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the other in delivering ever-larger turbogenerator contracts. Metrovick also expanded its appliance division during this time, becoming a well known supplier of refrigerators and stoves.
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Whittle's designs. The new design became the
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proved to be faulty. The
British government intervened; the engineers were released and trade with Russia was resumed after a brief embargo.
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on 23 December. Despite this the firm went on to complete 43 examples. With the design of the much improved four-engined derivative, the
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and Messier undercarriages, automatic pilot units, searchlights and radar equipment. They also produced
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Electric Rolling Stock for Manchester-Glossop Service
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Metrovick started as a way to separate the existing
988:"Turbine, Battersea Power Station, 31 January 1935"
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1671:GEC-Marconi scientist deaths conspiracy theory
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602:. Although the F.9 proved to be a winner, the
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1204:(PhD thesis). University of Manchester
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1053:Farewell to the Metro-Vick Co-Bos
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671:In 1947, a Metrovick G.1 Gatric
472:In 1935 the company built a 105
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124:R.S. Hilton (Managing Director)
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60:1899 as British Westinghouse
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794:Beyer, Peacock & Company
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505:Royal Aircraft Establishment
276:MV Logo from brass Waveguide
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922:Gillham (1988), Chapter 2:
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908:Scott (1963). pp. 140–142.
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227:, and the first British
1400:British Thomson-Houston
1321:Marconi Research Centre
1168:Gillham, J. C. (1988).
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482:Battersea Power Station
396:British Thomson-Houston
386:British Thomson-Houston
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1438:Dick, Kerr & Co.
1416:Metropolitan-Vickers
1174:Ian Allan Publishing
1041:The Railway Magazine
963:"V40 traction motor"
862:Metro-Vickers Affair
662:electron microscopes
453:Metro-Vickers Affair
256:British Westinghouse
197:British Westinghouse
181:Metropolitan-Vickers
153:electric locomotives
22:Metropolitan-Vickers
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1362:Matra Marconi Space
1316:Marconi-Osram Valve
1311:Marconi Instruments
1272:Former subsidiaries
1089:9 July 1954 page 41
1074:August 1956 page 26
969:on 22 February 2010
945:"Attercliffe Works"
541:Rolls-Royce Vulture
221:transistor computer
69:George Westinghouse
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1157:Vickers: A History
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924:The Manufacturers.
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