All go at Vickers Armstrong 80 years ago
THE men of Vickers Armstrong were hard at work 80 years ago.
Our photo shows a heavy engineering workshop in Elswick, Newcastle, in December, 1938.
The works, once dubbed “the workshop of the world”, were responsible for countless feats of engineering and industrial development.
The factory complex on the Tyne established by William George Armstrong in 1847 to manufacture hydraulic cranes.
The old Vickers Armstrong works was most famous for the production of tanks and munitions.