'vickers' name

[smdc66]

i am trying to find a little history on this name as its on an old pa i am trying to restore and wondered if in particular it may have been a music store (called vickers music or something like that :?: )kev's grandad who owned the pa (a pancotti vickers) for 50 yrs or so - lived in london if it helps

we was discussing it over a beer last night (well kev was drinking)

kev thinks the name was common in usa too?

i wondered if may have been sold in usa to 3rd p before ended up in london - just another theory

:?

 

[Terry]

Is your accordion built like a tank?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vickers_Medium_Mark_I

 

[smdc66]

not quite - but is in remarkably good condition

Vickers tanks on the move in England in the 1930s would match the time the pa was built in italy though

kev said there was an armoury factory in london that stopped making arms but may have turned its hand to something else

one of my few theories is a military link though somwehere, even if only that a military person owned it once , perhaps from usa :!:

 

[Glenn]

Could it be somehow religious?
I'm sure it could have belonged to a vicar, hence the name.

 

[Soulsaver]

Could it be somehow religious?
Im sure it could have belonged to a vicar, hence the name.

Only if the Italians cant spell vicars.

 

[Soulsaver]

You theory that it's a successful music school is possible - you see Eddie Moors, for example, on some accordions from time to time. But like Hohner 'Shand' Morino or Deiro/Pietro (Ital Mfg?) - I'd favour a 1920/30's successful acordionist, probably British or American, and forgotten now.

BTW Vickers (tanks) is a UK manufacturer.

 

[Terry]

BTW Vickers (tanks) is a UK manufacturer.

If coal mines had their own brass bands, maybe tank manufacturers had accordion orchestras?

Maybe the Pancotti Vickers accordions were made for the Vickers Factory Accordion Orchestra.

I know its a VERY farfetched idea...but who knows?

 

[Buttons]

If PA's were sold in America with fancy selling names like Broadway, etc, then perhaps Vickers was seen as a good name for England/ UK sometime after 1918ish. Sold not for the Italian imigrants but for the locals, or perhaps it sounded like a VIckers M/G ........I see Antonio Pancotti of Macerata was noted a being pioneering in terms od selling abroad, 1865 to 1950. Best wishes.

 

[goldtopia]

I use to work for Vickers Medical, repairing hospital medical equipment. The only music came from babies in incubators and women in labour. If you can call it music.

 

[Soulsaver]

If PAs were sold in America with fancy selling names like Broadway, etc, then perhaps Vickers was seen as a good name for England/ UK sometime after 1918ish. Sold not for the Italian imigrants but for the locals, or perhaps it sounded like a VIckers M/G ........I see Antonio Pancotti of Macerata was noted a being pioneering in terms od selling abroad, 1865 to 1950. Best wishes.

You mean on the back of the Vickers tank in WW1? Could be true but other than that I cant see where the name would have the pizazz connection like Broadway, Panorama, Modern, Excelsior etc. But I do like that theory - the V. tank was a success in that war and I can imagine that it may well have conjured with the impression of tough reliability and with the success it delivered in battle. :tup: