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Vickers and Mitsubishi as industrial partners

A partnership dated to 1905 links Vickers with Mitsubishi's predecessor organisations.

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Question

Was Vickers a Mitsubishi Heavy Industries subsidiary?

Short answer

No. Vickers had a strategic partnership with Mitsubishi predecessor organisations, dated here to 1905.

Notes

The relationship was a strategic partnership rather than subsidiary ownership. It is dated to 1905 with Mitsubishi predecessor organisations. The modern corporate form did not exist for that whole period, with incorporation dated here to 1950. The partnership is said to continue until Vickers ended.