Cogswell & Harrison

[barryh]

Can any one give me some information on this gun make i am told they are made by cz

 

[teyhan1]

Phone Cogswell and Harrison in Ascot, Berkshire.
They will give you all the information on your gun based on its serial number.

 

[enfieldspares]

What's for sure is they aren't made in West London.

 

[barryh]

Thanks
I was looking at a .17 HMR and wondering could any one advise me on it that might have one or that looked at one.[h=1][/h]

 

[thistledeyke]

There was a recent article in one of the shooting mags I believe they are a CZ.

 

[Southern]

Cogswell & Harrison is a fine old British gun maker. They built some fine SxS shotguns for reasonable prices ( I had one ). And they built fine, fitted rifles built on Mauser actions, in chamberings from .22 Hornet to .375 H&H, that I have seen. I have lots of photos of those rifles.

Today, they build O/U shotguns, off the shelf, and bespoke, and a rimfire rifle (which looks like a CZ ).
Cogswell & Harrison

www.cogswellandharrison.com

 

[Roro]

The Cogswell and Harrison name was bought by David Brennan of Ardee sports in Co.Louth in Ireland some years ago. What they "make" are CZ clones and Turkish shotguns with the C&H stamped on them. To be honest i never found any of the Cogswells i have ever seen to be all that, i am into old guns and would never be that interested in them, where as Webley, Westley Richards, Edwinson Green or any of the Birmingham or London makers were always something special to me.

 

[barryh]

Thanks for the information

 

[Frank Homes]

Southern

Yes they did make some fine guns but they also made some pretty average ones too.

F

 

[Southern]

The C&H shotguns I have seen were about like AyA of the same era.
The rifles looked pretty nice, conventional British stalking rifles on Mauser actions.

 

[Roro]

The only gun they made that in anyway interested me was the old centrefire certus, and that was because it was an unusual design.

 

[enfieldspares]

I remember the shop in Picadilly. They had some interesting pistols for sale. I bought a MAB P-15 there in the late 1970s before they closed down.

 

[Roro]

I remember the shop in Picadilly. They had some interesting pistols for sale. I bought a MAB P-15 there in the late 1970s before they closed down.

There must have been a lot of gunshops large and small back then in london, are there any left apart from H&H, purdeys and rigby ?

 

[Humpers]

The .22LR is a CZ 455 with Cogswell and Harrison's own stock.

 

[Pine Marten]

are there any left apart from H&H, purdeys and rigby ?

Very few. The ones from the famous names that you quote are more like showrooms than gunshops. They cater exclusively for the very high end market. William Evans is more of a proper gunshop and they're happy to help out with non-exorbitant purchases. There's the Beretta Gallery too. But there's pretty much nowhere with a big rack of guns you can browse. In the past decade it's often been the case that the owner retires and no-one wants to take over the business. A bit further out there are a few though. John Forsey Guns in Bexleyheath springs to mind. They're not technically in London but they're within reach...

 

[Greener Jim]

The only gun they made that in anyway interested me was the old centrefire certus, and that was because it was an unusual design.

I love those things. Decent idea to get around Rigby's hold on Magnum actions whilst using common and popular rounds (450-400 and 450 NE)

 

[LeftHandGuy]

The C&G centrefire I looked at in Potters in TWells nearly 2 years ago had "Made in Italy" stamped into it. It had a plastic stock and detachable magazine. Felt and looked OK - can't say it left me wanting one...

Not sure who would be manufacturing it - but there are plenty of Italian firearms manufacturers who could...

 

[8x57]

As Roro pointed out in post #7 the name Cogswell and Harrison is now owned by an Irish company. Currently they are selling .22 rifles made for them by CZ who put them in a slightly superior stock and badge them as C&H, they also have centrefire rifles made for them by Sabatti in Italy.

Speaking to one of the reps at the shooting show he suggested that they use a number of different European companies to produce products for the Cogswell & Harrison trade name. My old mate who was extremely proud of his old 10 bore Cogswell & Harrison would be turning in his grave to discover that the company has resorted to buying in from abroad.

 

[LeftHandGuy]

As Roro pointed out in post #7 the name Cogswell and Harrison is now owned by an Irish company. Currently they are selling .22 rifles made for them by CZ who put them in a slightly superior stock and badge them as C&H, they also have centrefire rifles made for them by Sabatti in Italy.

Speaking to one of the reps at the shooting show he suggested that they use a number of different European companies to produce products for the Cogswell & Harrison trade name. My old mate who was extremely proud of his old 10 bore Cogswell & Harrison would be turning in his grave to discover that the company has resorted to buying in from abroad.

Dig C&G ever make their own rifles? I looked at one about 4 years ago that was clearly either a sporterised M1917 or one of the early Remington sporters based on that design....

I know they had a good reputation as a (shot)gun maker...

 

[8x57]

Yes they did make their own rifles the most famous being the Certus a name they have revived for the current centrefire rifles from Sabatti. I have only ever seen photographs of the original Certus which I believe was aimed at taking on Mauser and Manlicher which were represented in the U.K. by Holland &Holland and Rigby at the time and who dominated the market for bolt action rifles.

I think it would be a fair bet to say that C&G like most other U.K. gunsmiths probably also produced most of their sporting rifles based on ex military or commercial Mauser actions.