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DS.VA - Vickers Armstrongs Ltd, engineers, shipbuilders and armaments manufacturers
1 - Executive
2 - Administrative
3 - Financial
4 - Operational: Shipbuilding
5 - Operational: Hydraulics and Engineering
6 - Operational: Armaments
7 - Variable Speed Gear Department
8 - Research and Development
1 - Research Department meetings papers
2 - Research Department quarterly reports
3 - Research and Development Division annual reports
4 - Lists of reports and memoranda issued by Vickers Armstrongs Ltd
5 - Research Department reports (R reports)
6 - Research Department memoranda files
7 - Research Department memoranda
8 - Research Department memoranda (K series)
9 - Research Department reports relating to Zenith mountings (Z series)
10 - Design Department reports and sketches
11 - Various reports
1 - Report no. RM1 'Interim Report on Buffer Liquid Trials in a 4" H.A. U.D. Twin Mounting Mark XIX'
2 - 'High Pressure Apparatus for Producing Pressures up to 15,000 Atmospheres'
3 - 'Important Aspects Encountered in the Design and Manufacture of Gun Mountings for Remote Control Power'
4 - 'Losses in Hydraulic Pipes'
5 - 'Report on Test to destruction of Experimental Trunnion Bracket'
6 - 'Simplified Schematic Diagrams of RPC Systems for Gun Mountings'
7 - 'Shot Peening'
8 - 'Report on the use of Propane for Profile Cutting Machines'
9 - 'The Benefits of a Year's Research at a University' by Alan Saunders
10 - 'On the Growth of Science and of Companies' by A. Saunders
11 - 'Report of Examination and Findings on Accumulator Failure'
12 - 'Assessment of the Sharp Direct Reduction Process'
13 - 'High Torque Motor (2nd Interim Report)'
14 - 'Description of Autofrettage System Applied to Gun Tube Mountings'
15 - Report no. SM1 'Design of Stabilised Gun Mountings'
12 - Research Division technical summaries
13 - Tractor Research Department reports
14 - Reports of visits
15 - Research Department papers
16 - Barrow Works reports relating to MC/DP Equipment Vertical Fan Design
17 - Vickers Group of Companies list of research and development projects
18 - 'Research and Development Division Management Plan 1966 & 1967'
19 - Monthly reports on Research and Development on Remote Power Control (RPC) Systems
20 - Admiralty RPC Panel meetings
21 - Admiralty RPC Panel papers
22 - Proceedings of the RPC Panel
23 - Remote Power Control (RPC) reports
24 - Reports on German tanks
25 - New Naval Medium Calibre Dual Purpose Equipment: minutes of Panel 6 meetings
26 - Miscellaneous background material
9 - Public Relations and Marketing
10 - Trade Unions
11 - Various societies and organisations
Useful Links
Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums
Discovery Museum, Newcastle
Northumberland Archives online catalogue
Durham County Record Office online catalogue
The National Archives Discovery catalogue