The 20-25 hp 102x140 mm four cylinder engined Crossley was used throughout the 1920's by the Military services and civilian tradesmen alike, due to its robust and versatile goods carrying capabilities. To make it more versatile, in being able to go over very rough roads pneumatic tyres were fitted.

History: Crossley Motors was a British motor vehicle manufacturer based in Manchester, England. 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.

Crossley Brothers, originally manufacturers of textile machinery and rubber processing plant, began the licensed manufacture of the Otto internal combustion engine before 1880. The firm started car production in 1903, building around 650 vehicles in their first year.

The company was originally created as a division of engine builders Crossley Brothers, but from 1910 became a stand-alone company. Although founded as a car maker, they were major suppliers of vehicles to British forces during World War I, and in the 1920s moved into bus manufacture. With re-armament in the 1930s, car-making was run down, and stopped completely in 1936. During World War II output was again concentrated on military vehicles. Bus production resumed in 1945 but no more cars were made. The directors decided in the late 1940s that the company was too small to survive alone and agreed to a take over by AEC. Production at the Crossley factories finally stopped in 1958.

Scale: 1:47

RAF Ambulance

Evans Bros, Coal & Coke

Carlsberg

Waring & Gillow, London, Madrid & Paris

Kohle and Koks; Coal Truck

Code 2 Models

Aspects And Images

Surrey Model Fair 1981

Tangley Workshop

UK Matchbox Club 1979

The Story of The Golf Ball (Philip Wilson Publishers)

Code 3 Models

1st Bedford Swapmeet 1981 - St Johns Ambulance

A1 Glazing Company (Creaks of Camberley - AC149)

Ajax Mining Co. (Creaks of Camberley - AC23)

Arlingtons Fine Foods (Creaks of Camberley - AC74)

Army Ambulance (Creaks of Camberley - AC140)

Army Field Tanker (WW1), British Army (Creaks of Camberley - AC60)

Arundel Coal Co, Coal Truck (Creaks of Camberley - AC27)

Avonmouth Docks ASC (Creaks of Camberley - AC15)

Bishop & Sons, Removals & Warehousing (Creaks of Camberley - AC10)

British Railways

Burdown Quarries (Creaks of Camberley - AC26)

Charrington of London, Brewers

Chasewater Light Railway

City of London, Police Ambulance 2nd (Creaks of Camberley - AC73)

City of London, Police Prison Van (Creaks of Camberley - AC45)

City of London Yeomanry, Charing Cross Hospital, WW1 Ambulance (Creaks of Camberley - AC85)

Creaks Stores Ltd (Creaks of Camberley - AC4)

Crooks of Salford, Barrels Load (Creaks of Camberley - AC20)

D.C Finnigan Motors (Creaks of Camberley - AC127)

Desert Ambulance (Creaks of Camberley - AC157)

Desert Storm Ambulance

Eastgate Stone (Creaks of Camberley - AC21)

Falkland Islands 1982

F.A.N.Y Ambulance; World War One Ambulance (Creaks of Camberley - AC53)

F.W. Francis & Co. (Creaks of Camberley - AC2)

Frank Hammond; Coal Truck; Delauney conv. (Creaks of Camberley - AC55)

GL & CM Baker; Builder's Truck (Creaks of Camberley - AC22)

Hart Haulage

Hoatson Handyman (Creaks of Camberley - AC5)

Hornby Trains

Ingrams Brewery; Beer Barrel Load (Creaks of Camberley - AC7)

Loomes Roofing; Builder's Truck (Creaks of Camberley - AC24)

Luxfords (Creaks of Camberley)

Marsham Fuel Oils; Petrol Tanker (Creaks of Camberley - AC12)

Morris Commercial; Tyre Truck (Creaks of Camberley - AC17)

National Benzole; Petrol Tanker

Palenthorpes, Royal Cambridge

Pennine Granite Co. (Creaks of Camberley - AC9)

Pickfords

Pickfords Recovery Truck with Crane

Pickfords Removers & Storers (Heavy conversion model)

Planters Dry Roasted Peanuts; Van; 1st (Creaks of Camberley - AC33)

RAF Aircraft Spares (Creaks of Camberley - AC112)

RAF Ambulance (Olive Green Canopy - Promotional)

RAF Ambulance; Chateau-Thierry (Creaks of Camberley - AC88)

RAF Recovery Truck (Creaks of Camberley - AC124)

RAF Searchlight Lorry (Creaks of Camberley - AC95)

Reading Borough Police (Creaks of Camberley - AC162)

Reading Borough Police (Creaks of Camberley - AC162)

Red Cross Ambulance

Reynolds (Creaks of Camberley - AC3)

RNAS Aircraft Spares (Creaks of Camberley - AC147)

RNAS Ambulance (Creaks of Camberley - AC145)

RNAS Ambulance (Creaks of Camberley - Special Commissions)

Rod Bayton Motors; Wrecker (Creaks of Camberley - AC13)

St. John Ambulance (Conversion)

TJ Gyte; Plumber's Lorry (Creaks of Camberley - AC25)

United Dairies; Milk Churn Load

Watneys; Beer Barrel Load

Weston Timber Co. (Creaks of Camberley - AC1)

William Black Haulier

Wiltshire County Council (Creaks of Camberley - AC104)

Withers Haulage; Cargo Truck (Creaks of Camberley - AC6)

WJ Rogers Grocers; Tilt Truck (Creaks of Camberley - AC19)

Worthington's; Bottle Car

Wreck Truck (Conversion)

WW1 Army Field Crane (Creaks of Camberley - AC62)

WW1 Field HQ Signals Truck; Pigeon Loft (Creaks of Camberley - AC16)