Trowbridge Vickers Armstrongs (Aircraft) Ltd Bradley Road AEU & Benevolent Fund Cards 1950's
Amalgamated Engineering Union membership card and two benevolent fund rules cards belonging to Graham Raymond Davis, Tool Maker.
Salisbury was the first site of Vickers-Armstrong aircraft factories in Wiltshire.It is known that they employed more than 1,000 workers from about 1941 onwards. The factory had to be closed after the war but the company established permanent works both at Swindon (employing 1,500) and at Trowbridge (employing 300) which were still expanding in 1952.
Information from: 'Engineering and railway works', A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 4
Trowbridge Vickers Armstrongs (Aircraft) Ltd Bradley Road AEU & Benevolent Fund Cards 1950's
Amalgamated Engineering Union membership card and two benevolent fund rules cards belonging to Graham Raymond Davis, Tool Maker.
Salisbury was the first site of Vickers-Armstrong aircraft factories in Wiltshire.It is known that they employed more than 1,000 workers from about 1941 onwards. The factory had to be closed after the war but the company established permanent works both at Swindon (employing 1,500) and at Trowbridge (employing 300) which were still expanding in 1952.
Information from: 'Engineering and railway works', A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 4