page_title: Crossley Motors
section_title: Military vehicles
hierarchical_section_title: Crossley Motors / Military vehicles
caption_attribution_description: English: Vickers Crossley Armored Cars were used in the Manchurian Incident by the Imperial Japanese Army and by the Imperial Japanese Navy Special Naval Landing Force in the Shanghai Incident. The car on this image was from the IJN, as it was written on the number plate.
context_page_description: Crossley Motors was an English motor vehicle manufacturer based in Manchester, England. It 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 established 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 Armed 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.
context_section_description: 20/25 1912–1920
  BGT 1923
  IGL 4 wheel 1923–1926
  Crossley Kégresse 1925-1927
  IGL 6 wheel 1927–1931
  BGV 1927–1929
  IGA Armoured car 1928–1929
  FWD 1940–1945
caption: Japanese Special Naval Landing Force Vickers Crossley Armoured Car in Shanghai
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