Rover P6 2200TC

Rover P6 2200TC

Owned since 1985. Driven throughout the year (except salty days). Some restoration work but mostly original, as is the colour, avocado green. My father had a P6, which as a teenager I drove. Always hsd a soft spot for what was a luxury car in those days. Today, just a...

HRD/Cross Rotary Valve

Roland Cross founder of Cross Manufacturing Company purchased from HRD in 1934 a Model P `rolling chassis` (frame, wheels, tank, seat etc.) into which he installed his revolutionary 500cc Cross Rotary valve engine on top of a Rudge Ulster crankcase with the drive...

Cotton/Cross Cougar

For decades the Villiers company had provided their engines to almost the entire British two-stroke motorcycle manufacturers such as Francis Barnett, James, Ambassador, Excelsior and so many others. Cotton Motorcycles based at Gloucester also installed Villiers...

Royal Enfield Crusader Sports

In 1959 Anthony Wilson-Jones the Chief Engineer at Royal Enfield Motorcycles and a member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers approached his fellow “Mechanicals” member Roland Cross the founder and Managing Director of Cross Manufacturing Company in...