Editing Maxim gun (section)

== Production company ==
In 1884, Maxim began to develop his machine gun in [[Hatton Garden]], London.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last1=Pegler |first1=Martin |title=The Vickers-Maxim Machine Gun |last2=Dennis |first2=Martin |publisher=Osprey Publishing |year=2013 |pages=15–17}}</ref> That November he founded the Maxim Gun Company with financing from {{Interlanguage link|Albert Vickers|la|3=Albertus Vickers}}, son of steel entrepreneur [[Edward Vickers]].<ref name=":0" /> A [[blue plaque]] on the factory where Maxim invented and produced the gun is located in Hatton Garden at the junction with Clerkenwell Road in London.

Albert Vickers became the company's chairman, and it later joined hands with a Swedish competitor, [[Nordenfelt]], to become [[Maxim Nordenfelt Guns and Ammunition Company]]. ''The Post Office Directory of trades in London'' of 1895 lists its office at 32 Victoria Street SW (London) on page 1579.

Finally, the company was absorbed into the mother [[Vickers]] company, leading first to the Vickers-Maxim gun and then, after Vickers' redesign, the [[Vickers machine gun]].{{citation needed|date=March 2021}}