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Vickers was a famous name in British engineering that existed through many companies from 1828 until 1999.
Vickers is a British engineering conglomerate founded in 1828.
Vickers may also refer to:
Vickers is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Alfred Vickers (1786-1869), British landscape-painter
- Alfred Gomersal Vickers (1810-1837), British marine-painter
- Brian Vickers, American stock car driver, currently racing in the NASCAR Sprint Cup
- Brian Vickers (academic), British authority on rhetoric
- David Vickers, a fictional character on the soap opera One Life to Live
- Diana Vickers, English singer
- Douglas Vickers, English industrialist and politician
- Edward Vickers (1804-1897), British steel maker and industrialist
- F. B. Vickers (1903-1985), Australian author
- Geoffrey Vickers (1894-1982), pioneer of systems thinking
- George Vickers, United States Senator from Maryland
- Harry Franklin Vickers (1898-1977), American inventor and industrialist
- Jack Vickers, English footballer
- James Oswald Noel Vickers, British trade union leader
- Janeene Vickers, American athlete
- Joan Vickers, Baroness Vickers, British National Liberal and Conservative Party politician
- John Vickers (disambiguation)
- John Vickers, British economist
- Jon Vickers, Canadian operatic tenor
- Jon Vickers (rugby union), rugby union player
- Kevin Vickers, Canadian ambassador to Ireland, former Canadian Parliament House of Commons Sergeant-at-Arms
- Kipp Vickers, American football player
- Lawrence Vickers, NFL fullback
- Lee Vickers, NFL tight end for the Baltimore Ravens
- Martha Vickers, American television and film actress
- Michael Vickers, Bishop of Colchester in England
- Michael G. Vickers, United States Assistant Secretary of Defense
- Mike Vickers, British guitarist and composer
- Patricia Vickers-Rich (born 1944), Australian palaeontologist
- Roy Henry Vickers, Canadian painter
- Salley Vickers, English novelist
- Scott Vickers (born 1977), British actor
- Stan Vickers, British athlete
- Stanley Vickers (MP), English distiller and Conservative politician
- Steve Vickers (computer scientist), author of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum home computer ROM firmware
- Steve Vickers (footballer), English association footballer
- Steve Vickers (ice hockey), Canadian born hockey player with the New York Rangers
- William Edward Vickers (1889-1965), English mystery writer better known under his main pen name Roy Vickers
- Yvette Vickers, American actress, pin-up model and singer
Usage examples of "vickers".
Even Lij Mikhael forsook his Etonian manners and joined in the delighted examination of the hoard, pushing aside an old greybeard of seventy to take his place at the Vickers gun and triggering off a noisy squabble amongst the others in which Gareth diplomatically intervened.
He was about the fattest man that Vickers had ever seen, an emotional baby with a mind like a vise who had long ago abandoned all ideas except power and gluttony.
Eb, the garageman, warns Vickers that a lynch mob is forming and loans him a new Forever car, one of the mutant products, to use to make a getaway.
The centerpiece of this lowest, most exclusive strata of the bunker was a wide soaring airshaft that, as far as Vickers could see, extended almost to the surface and was at least a hundred feet across at its base.
The two guards in the rear had their guns up and, for a moment, it looked like carnage was going to spread all down the length of the bus. Vickers was on his feet and shouting, facing the rear guards and waving his arms.
Vickers had been at El Rancho Mars, he had learned to take Debbie and the three other girls a whole lot more seriously than first impressions had indicated.
Fenton and Vickers both sat down, but Debbie still stood, clutching the overhead rail with a white-knuckled hand.
Further back still, Vickers spotted Parkwood and Debbie crouched behind another golf cart that had been overturned and thoroughly trashed.
Parkwood, Vickers, and Debbie had virtually sat out the action well to the rear.
After faking the coin toss, the task fell to Vickers while Fenton would stay behind and cover for his absence.
Vickers had no idea why they were there but he only had the haziest idea of what snakes might be capable.
Norweigan kippers, Oxford marmalade, coffee and Jack Daniels, which he now placed truculently in front of Vickers.
The surface of the desert was brightly illuminated but it still took them three passes before Vickers spotted the dry streambed and the small bridge.
If he believed that one of the superpeople in the bottoms was working to seize power, or that a group of his officers were plotting a coup, Vickers or one or more of the others would be called upon to act.
A stunned silence fell upon the party as they saw the row of four iron ladies, gleaming in their new coats of grey, with the heavily jacketed water-cooled barrels of the Vickers machine guns protruding from the ports and the rakish turrets emblazoned with the tricolour horizontal bars of the Ethiopian national colours green, yellow and red.