Originally Posted By: rabbit
C&H had a "brief flirtation" with the lower end of the market with production marketed thru the Victoria Small Arms. Co. of Gillingham St. (same premises as C&H factory). Baker also mentions C&H in the connection of being the one london maker who followed the Brummies into product diversification in bicycles and bike parts.

jack

Spot on, Old Bean-Nibbler. C&H made whatever could be sold, and the Mooregreys I mentioned above were certainly bottom-feeder SxSs. And bike parts and lawn games and ammo and books and you name it (I used to have a C&H-labeled fore-and-aft cap!). Unfortunately, their entrepreneurial diversity distracts gun people from the fact that over many years, Cogswell & Harrison made some very fine bespoke guns in London, including 'Bests.'

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