Cross Manufacturing Co
of Combe Down, Bath, Somerset, and Devizes, Wiltshire.
1923 Formed by Roland Claude Cross
1933 Private company.
1937 Details of the valve with drawings.[1]
1938 Cross Alloy Cylinders Ltd was liquidated voluntarily and incorporated, together with Cross Manufacturing Co, into a new company Cross Manufacturing Co (1938) Ltd [2]
1938 Company made public.
1961 Experimental and development engineers and manufacturers of aircraft and other components. 110 employees. [3]
1961 Developed an engine for the Cotton Cougar 250cc scrambler motorcycle.
2017 The firm is a prominent supplier of high technology seals for turbines and other machinery, rolled sections in a variety of steel and other alloys, locking rings, etc., with factories in Bath and Devizes. See Cross Manufacturing Co. website - Heritage and Cross Manufacturing Co. website - Home page.
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ Automobile Engineer: 1937/07
- ↑ London Gazette 15 July 1938
- ↑ 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE