This car is pictured in the Exchange Station car park in Manchester before the start of the Lancashire Automobile Club's Manchester to Blackpool Veteran and Vintage Car Run in May 1987.
It's the 1927 Crossley 20.9 Tourer of John Levaggi, a car that was built not far from there in Gorton. Crossley Brothers made their first car in 1904 and the vehicle manufacturing part of the company was registered as Crossley Motors Limited in 1906. Cars were made at their Napier Street - later renamed Crossley Street - site from 1904 to 1938, and buses till 1958. The Crossley 20.9 had the 6-cylinder inline engine from the Crossley 18/50, the 2,692cc unit being bored out to 3,198cc - though the DVLA record shows the capacity of NF 5377's engine to be 2,687cc. The programme of the event says very little about the car:
Crossley 20.9 Tourer
Reg: NF 5377 6 cylinder 21 hp
(John Levaggi, Stalybridge)
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