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Vickers-Armstrongs Limited was a British engineering conglomerate formed by the merger of the assets of Vickers Limited and Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth & Company in 1927. The majority of the company was nationalised in the 1960s and 1970s, with the remainder being divested as Vickers plc in 1977.
In 1927, Vickers merged with Tyneside based engineering company Armstrong Whitworth to become Vickers-Armstrongs. Armstrong Whitworth had developed along similar lines to Vickers, expanding into various military sectors and was notable for their artillery manufacture at Elswick and shipbuilding at a yard at High Walker on the River Tyne .
These LPs and CDs were released after Armstrong's 1971 death. Louis Armstrong in Prague Lucerna Hall 1965 (Panton, 1979) – reissued on CD in 2000 by Columbia; Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: 1923-1934 (Legacy / Columbia, 1994; Sony Music, 2001) Louis Armstrong's All Time Greatest Hits (MCA, 1994) 16 Most Requested Songs (Columbia ...
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In 1927, Vickers agreed to merge their armaments and shipbuilding and heavy engineering activities with the Tyneside-based engineering company Armstrong Whitworth, founded by W. G. Armstrong, to form Vickers-Armstrongs Limited. This merger was to take effect on 1 January 1928 and would give Vickers shareholders ownership of two-thirds of the ...
Discography is the study and cataloging of published sound recordings, often by specified artists or within identified music genres.The exact information included varies depending on the type and scope of the discography, but a discography entry for a specific recording will often list such details as the names of the artists involved, the time and place of the recording, the title of the ...
Columbia CD released the album on CD in 1986 in a much altered form, with alternative versions in place of many of the original songs, but restored the original with its 1997 re-issue, which also included additional tracks: a brief interview by the producer, George Avakian, with W. C. Handy; a joke told by Louis Armstrong; and several rehearsal ...
The band's single "Science Fiction Freak", taken from the second Replicants' album, made John Peel's 'Festive Fifty' in 1999. The album sold less well than its predecessor and Warner Bros. dropped the band. In 2000, Vickers and Simian released an album and two singles through Shifty Disco of electronica, under the name Pluto Monkey.