Crossley Motors is a manufacturing company of high quality cars. The company is based in Manchester, England. This company is known for producing approximately 19,000 high quality cars from the year1904 till 1938. Crossley Motors has manufactured 5,500 buses from 1926 - 58 and 21,000 goods and military vehicles from 1914 - 45.
History of Crossley Motors
Crossley Motors Ltd was first commissioned on 11th April 1906 and re-registered with another company in the year 1910. Crossley Brothers owned this company as the vehicle manufacturing section. The first car was made in 1904 and showcased at the Paris motor Show in 1905. Since then the parent company could sense a bright future in this industry and decided to manufacture new machines and vehicles and thus build up a separate company. In 1920 Crossley Motors merged with the A V Roe and Company, commonly known as Avro. They finally sold the company to Armstrong Siddeley in 1928 to compensate the losses incurred in Willys-Overland-Crossley, company jointly owned by Crossley and Willys-Overland.
The first Crossley cars emerged in 1904 and were designed by chief engineer J S Critchley. He intended to build an "English Mercedes". The first model was a 22hp but shortly after they manufactured a larger model of 40hp, which had 4 cylinder engines, formed in two pairs and featured chain system to the back axle. The prominent features of the
first car introduced many advanced features including lightweight pistons, pump cooling, an automatic carburetor and internal inflating brakes. Crossley Motors factory started the trend
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supplying complete assembled cars. One 22hp or 4760cc model was exported to Australia in its initial years of production. Henry Ford also bought a 22hp engine, which fitted perfectly in one of his cars.
Vehicles Manufactured by Crossley Motors Ltd
- The extensive range of model of cars manufactured by this company include Crossley 9T 25/30 HP Phaeton (1920), Crossley 20/25 Royal Flying Corps Staff car 22 hp (1904-1908), Shelsley sports cars (1909-1915), Crossley-Bugatti (1923-1925), Streamline (1933), Regis (1935-1937) and many more.
- The wide selection of bus models manufactured by this company include 1949 Crossley DD42 ex Manchester City TransportEagle (1928-1930), Condor (1930-1934), Hawk (1929), Mancunian (1933-1940), TDD42 Empire – Trolleybus (1948-1951) and so on.
- The well-known models of military vehicles include IGA Armored car (1928-1929), IGL 4 wheel (1923-1926), BGT (1923) and so on. The company also manufactures commercial vehicles like 15cwt van (1913), Atlas (1931), Delta (1931-1937), Beta (1933) and others.
Crossley Motors is one of the leading motor manufacturing companies in Manchester. The profit derived from export of this company has been contributing a handsome amount of money to the economy of the nation.
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