Organisations Based in North Yorkshire - Charities Based in North Yorkshire, Companies Based in North Yorkshire, Organisations Based in York (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 29. Chapters: Charities based in North Yorkshire, Companies based in North Yorkshire, Organisations based in York, Plaxton, Archaeology Data Service, The Retreat, Samuel Smith Brewery, Skipton Building Society, British Thyroid Foundation, RAF Menwith Hill, RAF Leeming, Higher Education Academy, Digital Preservation Coalition, No. 1 Flying Training School, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Whitby Seafoods Ltd, North Yorkshire Police, Econ Engineering, Pavers Shoes, Scarborough and Ryedale mountain rescue team, Academy of St Olave's, National Non-Food Crops Centre, National Bee Unit, Magpie Cafe, Europa Aircraft, Food and Environment Research Agency, York Housing Association, Campaign for Real Education, Refined Bitumen Association, Barkers of Northallerton, Birse Civils, Upper Dales Family History Group, York Conservation Trust, Hintons, HMS Forest Moor, Yorkshire Agricultural Society, York Archaeological Trust, Rowntree trusts, Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust, Cleveland Family History Society, Tees Valley Wildlife Trust, North Yorkshire Forum for Voluntary Organisations, York and North Yorkshire Community Foundation, York Against Cancer. Excerpt: Plaxton is a builder of bus and coach vehicle bodies based in Scarborough, England. The Plaxton of today is the successor to a business founded in Scarborough in 1907 by Frederick William Plaxton. The business was founded as a joinery workshop, and expanded into building contracting. As a building contractor, Plaxtons built a number of notable buildings in Scarborough. Soon after World War I Plaxtons diversified and began to build charabanc bodies on Ford Model T chassis. Of more importance at the time was the construction of automobile bodywork. This included bodywork for Rolls-Royce, Sunbeam and Daimler, but principally for Crossley car chassis. This activity continued through the 1920s, bu...