Vero Precision Engineering Ltd (VPE) was a UK machine-tool manufacturing company which operated from premises at 7 South Mill Rd, Southampton SO15 4JW.

[7] From the 1955 startup VPE progressed as a top-class machine-tool design and manufacturing company with a staff of highly qualified engineers - some being of Swiss and German origin.

A small sample of the wide production range of the company includes hydraulic copy milling attachments, automatic drilling machines and camshaft milling machines - as supplied respectively to: The standing of Vero Precision in the industry is demonstrated by the writing of E. T. Foulds founder of The Middlesex Group when, as a competitor in the machine-tool market, he comments that VPE had one of 'the best equipped toolrooms' in the UK.

A control system based on a Moire pattern sensor feeding a semiconductor decade counter was produced but the project failed to achieve the required machining accuracy - resulting in the termination of all electronics design activity in 1960.

[18] The rapid growth of the company soon necessitated removal from the VPE factory site and by 1967 Vero Electronics Ltd were in larger premises at School Close, Chandler's Ford, Hampshire.

[24] The IMRAK 1400 cabinets had evolved from work on electronics enclosure systems based on the 19-inch rack originally developed by Alfred lmhof Limited, London.

[24] The company is located at Hedge End, Hampshire where they continue operations supplying a range of electronic components including stripboard and Veroboard.

[31] Verotec Ltd was originally formed as Backplane Systems Ltd in 2005 [32] and acquired the intellectual property rights to many of the Vero products (other than Veroboard) from the APW administrators in 2007.