1954-ish: Viscount selling profusely; Viscount Major being schemed (to emerge as Vanguard); V1000 funded in R&D for RAF, VC7 offered.
VC10 sold to BOAC, 1957. By 1960s-late...empty, Weybridge as quaint history. What went wrong?
Vickers-Armstrongs (Aircraft) Ltd/Sir Geo. Edwards were Units within arsenal Vickers Ltd. 4/4/57 White Paper cut back Defence Budget. Vickers Board put Aircraft into BAC Ltd., 1/3/60, to ensure funding of (to be TSR.2). GRE, almost unprecedentedly, had won his Board Approval in 1956 to develop Vanguard PV, without Treasury Launch Aid (which came with a Sales Levy, to be re-paid before profit)...and Caravelle killed it, and with it any Corporate appetite for civil aircraft risk. So, quite naturally, Boards at Vickers (and elsewhere) brochured what BOAC/BEAC (thought they) wanted. But they were protected parastatals, insulated from commercial reality. So they specified parochially, as no sane operator wanted.