Metropolitan-Vickers,
Metrovick, or
Metrovicks, was a
British heavy
electrical engineering company of the early-to-mid 20th century formerly known as
British Westinghouse. Highly diversified, they were particularly well known for their industrial electrical equipment such as
generators,
steam turbines,
switchgear,
transformers,
electronics and railway traction equipment. Metrovick holds a place in history as the builders of the first commercial
transistor computer, the
Metrovick 950, and the first British
axial-flow jet engine, the
Metropolitan-Vickers F.2. Their factory in Trafford Park, Manchester, was for most of the 20th century one of the biggest and most important heavy engineering facilities in Britain and the world.