Crossley Motors: Buses
From Graces Guide
Note: This is a sub-section of Crossley Motors.
General
1931 Crossley's first purpose built bus was the Eagle a forward-control single-decker, fitted with a 5.3 litre four-cylinder engine and stayed in production until 1931.
Post WWII: Thousands of buses were manufactured after the war; many were re-bodied as charabancs or buses. Crossleys most successful time came after the war when they received a massive export order for Holland. This would go on to help expand the country's bus fleet after the war.
- Manchester Corporation fitted the engines to most of the Mancunians in its fleet, which in turn made them the most reliable Crossleys it ran.
- The Bridgemaster bus was made at Crossley and they built bodywork until 1958.
- They produced approximately 19,000 high quality cars from 1904 until 1938, 5,500 buses from 1926 until 1958 and 21,000 goods and military vehicles from 1914 to 1945.
1950 AEC purchased the shares
List of Models
- Eagle (1928-30)
- Condor (1930-34)
- Mancunian (1933-40)
- Type 8
- DD42 (1942-53)
- SD42 (1946-52)
- TDD64 Dominion (Trolleybus) 1950-1951
- TDD42 Empire (Trolleybus) 1950-1951
Hawk 1929
Six/Alpha 1930-1931
TDD4 (Trolleybus) 1935-1942 TDD6 (Trolleybus) 1935-1942 PT42 1946-1949
See Also
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