VINTAGE STYLE: THE STORY OF CROSS & ELLIS
Written by Gillian Bardsley
Published by Brewin Books
in 1993
ISBN: 1858580110
- Categorised in:
- TRANSPORT
- CARS
- ALVIS (CARS)
- COMPANY HISTORY
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VINTAGE STYLE: THE STORY OF CROSS & ELLIS
Written by Gillian Bardsley.
Stock no. 1712047
1st.
1993.
Softcover.
Large format.
Nearly fine condition.
This monograph describes the history and the products of the Coventry Coach builders. The heyday of handbuilt luxury cars on such chassis as Alvis Armstrong Siddeley and Lea Francis with coachbuilt bodies by Cross and Ellis, has been carefully researched. Large format. Pink pictorial cardwraps. B/w photos. 68 pages. ISBN: 1858580110. A few minor marks to covers, spine is faded. Contents clean.
Front cover
Contents
- I. The Motor Industry Between the Wars
- II. Cross & Ellis
- III. Start of a Family Firm
- IV. Expansion
- V. Making A Body:
- chassis
- design
- production, the overall process
- body shop
- panel shop
- finishing shops
- building a coach
- VI. Working Conditions:
- factory
- mutuality
- hours & wages
- layoffs
- training & skill
- industrial relations
- cars and the working man
- VII. Alvis in Crisis
- VIII. Decline of the Firm
- IX. Decline of the Trade
- X. Conclusion.