Sir Charles Noel Davies (2 December 1933 – 10 February 2015) was a British businessman who chief executive of Vickers Shipbuilding & Engineering Ltd (VSEL) from 1989 to 1995 during the period when the yard built the s that replacing the former Polaris fleet. The ''Vanguard''s were armed with Trident missiles.UK: Profile - Noel Davies - VSEL CHIEF EXECUTIVE.
Christ Blackhurst, ''

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'', 1 October 1992. Retrieved 16 May 2015. Born into a Shropshire farming family, Davies was educated at

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and started his career at the Austin motor company at Longbridge, going on to

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in Barrow and then the

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at Harwell. For two years he was chief engineer at the Dounreay nuclear power station in Caithness.

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