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La Metropolitan-Vickers (anche nota come Metrovick o Metrovicks) è stata un gruppo industriale britannico che ha operato durante la prima metà del XX secolo. Fu fondata nel 1918 mediante una fusione tra la British Westinghouse, la Metropolitan Carriage, Wagon and Finance Company, e la Vickers Limited.
Metropolitan-Vickers, Metrovick, or Metrovicks, was a British heavy electrical engineering company of the early-to-mid 20th century formerly known as British Westinghouse.
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.
Il Metropolitan-Vickers F.2 fu uno dei primi turbogetti con compressore assiale al mondo, sviluppato e prodotto nel Regno Unito dalla Metropolitan-Vickers durante la seconda guerra mondiale. Non fu prodotto in serie ma solo in pochi esemplari destinati a velivoli sperimentali.
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.
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 .
