![]() According to an article in the Free Press, this was the largest such armory built in the continental U.S. plant in 1948, making it their home base. The Michigan National Guard's 1st Battallion / 182nd Field Artillery moved into this old Vickers Div. Apparently with the onset of WWII Vickers saw a need for another plant dedicated to war work, so this new structure was built here on the fringes of the city. ![]() They moved to a plant at 1400 Oakman a few years later, and became a division of Sperry Corp. Fisher (of Fisher Body fame) and Harry Vickers as its presidents. ![]() Vickers' first Detroit location was at Dubois & Clay (in 1929), with Fred J. Vickers, who according to his bio on Wikipedia (sorry), was called the "Father of Industrial Hydraulics" by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, which bestowed upon him their highest award, the ASME Medal, in 1956 (it is worth noting that another famous Detroiter, Gar Wood, was also a pioneer in hydraulics). Vickers, Inc.–not to be confused however with the British machine-gun maker of the same name–was a manufacturer that dealt in "high pressure pumps and control valves, and hydraulic transmission machinery for supplying feeds and controls to machine tools and many other types of mechanical equipment" according to a 1935 article in the Detroit Free Press. ![]()
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