Cosy Car Service

My Grandfather Wilfred Mennell ran the Cosy Car Service in York.
Attached are pictures of two of his busses. I know virtually nothing about Cosy Car Service.
I was hoping some body might have information.
Anything would be greatly appreciated.

Peter Mennell

29/11/12 - 16:15

Cosy Car Service (W. Mennel), Haxby, York was taken over by the West Yorkshire Road Car Company Limited on the 8th June 1930.
Vehicles acquired were:
KH 1107 Guy O with a B20F body which had been new in June 1925 to an operator named Dales before being with Cosy
KU 7439 Guy BA with a B20- body new in 1928
KH 4786 Albion PK26 with Albion B26F body new in May 1927
PY 8301 Albion PJ26 with Albion B25F body new in May 1928
PY 8907 Dennis 30-cwt with N.M.U. B14- body new in July 1928
VN 528 Albion PK26 with Barnaby B26F body new in July 1927
These became West Yorkshire 634, 635, 631, 632, 99 and 633 respectively
Earlier vehicles not acquired were:
AT 8439 Ford T with a B14 body new in 1923 and with Cosy by June 1924 (possibly new to Cosy)
AT 8440 Ford T with a B14 body new in 1923 and with Cosy by January 1924 (possibly new to Cosy)
NW 2064 Metallurgique new in 1922. This was acquired by Cosy in 1926 as a five seat car from S. Verity, Headingley, Leeds and was rebodied with a B14 body on acquisition.
These three were withdrawn in 12/24, 9/27 and 3/28 respectively.

John Kaye

29/11/12 - 16:39

A close up of the first shot shows the proprietors as W. Mennel and E Sheriff at Haxby, now where have we heard of Mr E Sheriff before.

Yes he was the proprietor of this concern.

Spencer

30/11/12 - 07:36

Cosy Cars was originally a partnership between W Mennell and E Sherriff. Mr Sherriff left the partnership at an unknown date and was later involved with Ovington Motors. In December 1929 he acquired 3 vehicles from Ovington, along with their York-Helmsley licence and began to trade as "Reliance"-a business which still exists. The two Ford Ts were new to the partners, and were bodied by Barnaby at Hull-I suspect that it was one of these bodies that was transferred to the Metallergique.

David Hick

01/12/12 - 14:18

I found the Cosy Car info very interesting, I think it is possible that all the Hull registered vehicles may have had Barnaby bodies, my Hull registration notes show -

KH 1107 was registered 17/6/25 by Dales -?- (dealer?) for an un-named operator (Cosy Cars?), it was licenced by NRCC in 25/6/25 then WYCC 24/6/30, Sheffield 28/10/31 and last owner given as T Allsop of Sheffield.

KH 4786 as registered by Barnaby for un-named operator (Cosy Cars?), licenced in NRCC 19/5/27, then WYCC 24/6/30, Glasgow 26/4/35, Ayr 14/8/35 & Stirling 9/9/37.

AT 8439 licenced 21/10/23 to un-named operator (Cosy Cars?), then licenced in York 14/1/24, NRCC 14/4/24, last owner W Mennel last licenced to 12/27.

AT 8440 licenced 21/12/23 to un-named operator (Cosy Cars?), licenced in York 17/1/24 then NRCC 14/4/24, last owner E Sheriff, Haxby last licenced to 9/27.

I hope the above may be of some interest.
Are there any more photographs you can share with us Peter I found the two posted really interesting.

Mike Davies

02/12/12 - 07:24

Hi,these are the only two photos I have. Found in box of photos when grandfather died, only found the web site recently so posted for more info. One family member to contact to see if they have any more.

Peter Mennell

12/12/13 - 16:46

A search through the online archive of The London Gazette has revealed a notice from Mr Mennell and Mr Sheriff to the effect that Mr. Sheriff left the partnership on 1st December 1926.

David Hick

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