![]() ![]() These great factories, situated in Newcastle along the banks of the River Tyne, employed hundreds of thousands of men and women and built a huge variety of products for customers around the globe. It’s also a very apt description for the Elswick Works and Scotswood Works of Vickers Armstrong and its predecessor companies. ‘Workshop of the World’ is a phrase often used to describe Britain’s manufacturing dominance during the Nineteenth Century. This appears to be a prototype of the Vickers VR180. ![]() ![]() New Tractor at the Elswick Works, 24 October 1949 (TWAM ref. ![]()
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