Vickers Armstrongs’ Last Military Plane
(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, August 27. With the delivery today of the last Valiapt bomber to the Royal Air Force, Vickers Armstrongs will be out of the military aircraft business and concentrating on building commercial aircraft, including Viscount prop-jet airliners.
It is the first time for 40 years that the firm which built the Vimy bomber in World War I an<* the Wellington bomber in the early stages of World War II will not be making military aircraft. Valiants will be replaced by Avro Vulcans and Handley Page Victors in the R.A.F. Many will be converted into tankers to refuel later bombers in flight
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Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28368, 29 August 1957, Page 18
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