Corgi 1/76 OM41609A Crossley DD42 Stockport, 47 Stockport Crossley Rd
Stockport operated a fleet of around one-hundred and sixty buses which
were mainly Leylands and a post-war fleet of sixty-five Crossleys. This
was largely due to the various Crossley companies lobbying the Stockport
Council to support local industry, which intensified when Crossley
Motors moved from Gorton, Manchester, to the Crossley site in Crossley
Road, Stockport in 1947. Numbers 207 and 225-244 were the DD42/3 models
with Crossley bodies and Manchester-style dipped windows; while the
others (205-264 and 309-332) were DD42/5 and their Crossley bodies had
the more usual straight window line.
The 47 service ran from Cheadle, through Stockport, calling at Mersey
Square, Crossley Road and then to the terminus at Levenshulme, Lloyd
Road.