Talk:Vickers
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I have learned many things about Elizabethan wedding customs throughout this project. The way that the wedding was arranged usually had nothing to do with the consent of the bride and or groom. They sometimes met on the day of their wedding. With the parent's concent, couples could get married at a very youg age, such as 12! But this did not normally happen. The bride and groom would be attended by their family and close friends while preparing for the ceremony. During the ceremony, everybody would stand, as there were no pews in the church. Wedding inivitations were not sent out because everybody in the community usually knew what was going on. Gifts were ocasionally given to the bride and groom. It was a custom to celebrate with a wedding feast. Elizabethan weddings were the first to feature many of the customs we use today, including the exchanging of rings, the eating of wedding cakes, and the passing of the garter. The notion of a bridal party procession developed during Elizabethan times, as did the brides wearing wreaths of blossoms and carrying boquets trimmed with knots. When the couple became engaged, the couple joined hands. He gave her a ring, which she wore on her right hand. She changed it tot the left hand at the wedding. The couple sealed the cotract with a kiss. Elizabethan lore has it that it is luckiest to wed before noon. In the wedding, the typical colors used in the wedding were very soft, like pale golds, dusty pinks, yellowy creams, and sage greens. They also used the music of the flute (sometimes accompanied by vocals, usually a solo, and softer instruments), bagpipe, the fife, and the pipe. Plus the brass instruments like the trumpet.
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<www.weddingideas.com/nov98/elizabethan.htm> ___________________________________________________________________________________________------- —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.41.254.64 (talk) 12:47, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Shipbuilding Timeline of the Vickers name
'1897: Vickers Sons & Maxim Limited bought The Barrow Shipbuilding Company Ltd'
Quotations below are from the Vickers publicity book; Anon, Vickers, sons and Maxim Limited (1898) (reprinted from Engineering) page 5. Vickers, Sons & Maxim was the earliest connection between the Vickers name and the maxim-type guns, in other words, the Vickers machine gun. Of course, Maxim guns had been produced before this - "Later in the same year which saw the acquisition of the Barrow Works [1897], a further step was taken when Messrs. Vickers acquired, by amalgamation, the Maxim-Nordenfelt Guns and Ammunition Company, Limited, with works at Erith and the neighbourhood, Birmingham, and other places, ..."
According to the 1898 book, the shipbuilding company bought in 1897 was "the Naval Construction and Armaments Company (Limited), at Barrow-in -Furness". This looks like the one noted in the Wikipedia article but I wonder what the Barrow company was in fact, called.
It can be seen from the Maxim-Nordenfelt quotation above, that the shipyard was bought just before the amalgamation which gave rise to the name Vickers, Sons and Maxim. Therefore, both the names in the first line of 'Shipbuilding Timeline of the Vickers name' section need further consideration. (RJP 15:59, 11 August 2005 (UTC))
[edit] Canadian Vickers
Where is the original article on this company? (Bzuk 16:08, 14 October 2006 (UTC))
- I don't think the article has ever been created, just a redirect to Vickers (UK). Mark83 17:14, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
