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5 unusual facts about Crossley


Crossley

Crossley Brothers was set up in 1867 by brothers Francis (1839-97) and William J.(1844-1911).

The brothers were committed Christians and strictly teetotal, refusing to supply their products to companies such as breweries, whom they did not approve of.

Electric Palace Cinema, Harwich

The original Crossley gas engine, which provided, in conjunction with a 100V DC generator, the electricity for the "Electric" Palace until 1925 is also still present.

MV Royal Iris of the Mersey

They had a main central wheelhouse and two side cabs, and power came from two medium speed Crossley 8-cylinder diesel engines.

MV Snowdrop

The Woodchurch was powered by two medium speed Crossley diesel engines, which were fitted with air brakes for rapid speed change and could be controlled directly from the bridge via the three pairs of connected Chadburn Synchrostep telegraphs.


Aaron Crossley Hobart Seymour

The elder brother of Michael Hobart Seymour, he was the son of John Crossley Seymour, vicar of Caherelly in the Church of Ireland diocese of Cashel, who married the eldest daughter of Edward Wight, rector of Meelick, County Limerick, a member of an old Surrey family.

ACS:Law

Crossley engaged the services of Andrew Hopper QC who, according to Crossley "literally wrote the SRA rules", to assist in his defence against the SRA/SDT.

In May 2011, ACS:Law was fined £1000 for the privacy breach, with the Information Commissioner Christopher Graham commenting: "Were it not for the fact that ACS:Law has ceased trading so that Mr Crossley now has limited means, a monetary penalty of £200,000 would have been imposed, given the severity of the breach."

Andrew Hopper

Hopper advised Andrew Crossley of ACS:Law who was referred to the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal in relation to claims against people suspected of copyright infringement using peer-to-peer file sharing.

Anthony Coke, 6th Earl of Leicester

He married firstly, in 1934, Moyra Joan, daughter of Douglas Crossley, and with her had two sons and one daughter (divorced, 1947); secondly, in Rhodesia in 1947, Vera Haigh (died 1984); thirdly, in 1985, Elizabeth Hope Johnstone, daughter of Clifford Arthur Johnstone, of Addo, Eastern Province, South Africa.

Anthony Crossley

Crossley was born on 13 August 1903, the only son of Sir Kenneth Irwin Crossley, 2nd Baronet.

Buglawton

The area of the former parish includes the hamlets of Timbersbrook, Key Green, Crossley, and Havannah, and the Cheshire side of The Cloud.

Callie Crossley

Crossley is a regular contributor on Public Radio International's The Takeaway (radio), and has guest hosted NPR's Tell Me More with Michel Martin, for which she also contributes commentary about wine.

Carl O. Sauer

A member of the fourth generation, William E. Doolittle studied with Billie Lee Turner II, earned the Ph.D. in 1979, became a professor in the Department of Geography and the Environment at University of Texas at Austin, and has extended the school into the fifth generation: Dean P. Lambert (1992), Andrew Sluyter (1995), Emily H. Young (1995), Eric P. Perramond (1999), Phil L. Crossley (1999), Jerry O. (Joby) Bass (2003), Maria G. Fadiman (2003), and Matthew Fry (2008).

Crossley baronets

He was a Director of the Manchester Ship Canal, Chairman of Crossley Brothers (Ltd), of Manchester, and Liberal Member of Parliament for Altrincham from 1906 to 1911.

Crossley Hospital East

The hospital was featured on the TV programme "Ghost Hunting with Girls Aloud", where Yvette Fielding and the pop group Girls Aloud explored various parts of Crossley Hospital in search of ghosts.

Facilitated communication

In 1989 Douglas Biklen, a sociologist and professor of special education at Syracuse University, investigated Rosemary Crossley's work in Australia.

John Newsome Crossley

John Newsome Crossley, DPhil, MA (Oxon), (born 1937, Yorkshire, England) is a British-Australian mathematician and logician who writes in the field of logic in computer science, history of mathematics and medieval history.

Matt Crossley

During Woking's 1-0 victory over York City on 29 December 2006, Crossley head-butted York substitute James Dudgeon, after he had tried to intervene as a peacemaker during a touchline tussle between Neal Bishop and Woking's Danny Bunce.

Michael Hobart Seymour

He was born on 29 September 1800, the sixth son of John Crossley Seymour, vicar of Caherelly (d. 19 May 1831), who married in January 1789 Catherine, eldest daughter and coheiress of Rev. Edward Wight, rector of Meelick in Limerick.

National Aircraft Factory No. 2

NAF No.2 was created at Crossley Road, Heaton Chapel, next to the London & North Western Railway company's line between Manchester (London Road) station and Stockport (Edgeley) station.

Pickardstown ambush

An attack was made on the RIC barracks in the town, and the British military garrison in Waterford City quickly dispatched forty troops in four Crossley tenders.

Trolleybuses in Wellington

The trolleybus fleet peaked at 119 vehicles, including Crossley Empire, British United Traction RETB1 (in various forms) and Volvo B10M and B58 models.


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