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Vero Precision Engineering Ltd (VPE) was a UK machine-tool manufacturing company which operated from premises at 7 South Mill Rd, Southampton SO15 4JW. The 1933 O.S. Map shows this location as Crown Works occupied by an electrical engineering company which by 1934 had been replaced by Weir Precision Engineering Ltd.〔GPO Telephone Directory 1934 - Volume 2 Section 9 Page 63〕 Weir Precision continued their engineering operations at South Mill Rd until 1955〔GPO Telephone Directory 1955 - Volume 2B Section 14 Page 181〕 at which time they were taken over by High Precision Engineering Ltd - a company recently formed by Geoffrey Verdon-Roe and associates.〔,Flight Magazine 23 Dec 1955 p948, In Brief〕 The chairman of the new company was Sir Alliott Verdon-Roe (until his death in 1958) and managing director was his son Geoffrey Verdon-Roe.〔 National Portrait Gallery website〕 Among the names of other directors found on the VPE Letterhead were Lawrence Leech and also son Royce Verdon-Roe.〔,Wikimedia Commons - Tfitzp 〕 To avoid confusion with another firm the company name was changed to Vero Precision Engineering Ltd. soon after incorporation〔,Duedil.com website〕 - the new name following the tradition of acronyms set by Sir Alliott at A.V. Roe and Company (Avro) and Saunders-Roe Ltd (Saro).〔,Flight Magazine 6 Apr 1956 p400, In Brief〕 ==Engineering== From the 1955 startup VPE progressed as a top-class machine-tool design and manufacturing company with a staff of highly qualified engineers - some being of Swiss and German origin. A small sample of the wide production range of the company includes hydraulic copy milling attachments, automatic drilling machines and camshaft milling machines - as supplied respectively to: * the de Havilland Engine Company.〔,New Scientist No 269, 11 Jan 1962, p82〕 * the Aviation Division of S. Smith and Sons (England) Ltd - later part of the present Smiths Group plc.〔,Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology Vol. 36 Iss: 1, page 27〕 * Weyburn Engineering Co Ltd, Elstead, Surrey (later acquired by Federal-Mogul Corporation〔,Duedil.com website〕). 〔,Machinery Lloyd (Overseas ed ), 38, 21 May 1966, p 45〕 The standing of Vero Precision in the industry is demonstrated by the writing of E. T. Foulds founder of The Middlesex Group when, as a competitor in the machine-tool market, he comments that VPE had one of 'the best equipped toolrooms' in the UK.〔,E.T. Foulds (2006), Middlesex Group - The First Fifty Years 1945 - 1995, Page 35〕 Shortly after taking over from Weir PE Ltd, VPE had commenced installation of numerical control (NC) for some of their machine tools and then, later in the 1950s, the need for the introduction of electronic control equipment was recognised.〔,Design Journal 1972, page 62〕 A VPE subsidiary company, Vero N.C. Developments Ltd, also trading from South Mill Rd, was incorporated in 1968 with the name changing to Vero Advanced Products Limited in 1979. This company was concerned with the supply and installation of the machine-tool output of VPE until it closed in 1999.〔,Duedil.com website〕 Under new directors in 1994 the parent company name, Vero Precision Engineering Ltd, was changed to VPE Ltd to continue with the machine-tool operations.〔,Duedil.com website〕 In 1996 VPE Ltd was brought to an end by final dissolution.〔,Open Corporates website〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Vero Precision Engineering Ltd」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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