Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,241 pages of information and 244,492 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.
Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.
1946 The Admiralty set up the Admiralty Development Establishment, Barrow, as a civilian department of Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd to work on an Admiralty contract for developing submarine propulsion machinery using hydrogen peroxide.
From 1955 it supported the development of submarine nuclear propulsion, including equipment and dockside facilities.
1964 Disbanded
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