Vickers Plant

Vickers Plant soon cropped up in Canada, Italy, Africa, Greece, Turkey, Russia, New Zealand, Ireland and Holland. When sales would slump, Zaharoff would use his press organs to pump more stories into the media about say France's rivals arming. Sometimes the agreement to allow Vickers came with direct military aid from the British Empire. The Royal Navy itself was for sale, provided that like the company buying guns from Vickers sent enough money back to the English economy to make it worthwhile.