Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 164,971 pages of information and 246,450 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Cross Manufacturing Co

From Graces Guide
HRD Vincent fitted with the Cross rotary valve engine. Reg No: GL 1722.
Cross rotary valve.
Cylinder head and rotary valve.
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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.

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