Originally Posted by
Genghis the Engineer
My Dad was a design draftsman there in the 60s, and before that an apprentice. They built the Scimitar and Attacker there. From what he's told me, they closed down most aircraft manufacturing and all of the design effort around 1967.
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I was in part of the same office mid 60's through to late 70's after my apprenticeship. Originally tool design and involved in early Airbus and Concorde. The main office then went into "commercial" design and amalgamated other Vickers design offices (Hydraulics/Printing machines/Nuclear equipment and goodness knows what else).