LIKE POSTAGE STAMPS.
Among the numerous inventions at an inventions exhibition in London were fibre "keys" as tliiu and flexible as cardboard, for uise with a lock claimed to be unpickable. "I have spent some years perfecting them," the inventor, Mr. Buchanan Wollaston. of Ipswich, told a reporter. Unlocking a ponderous demonstration door with a "key" which looked like a postage stamp, Mr. Wollaston continued: "I claim that one can carry dozens of these keys about in the space that one of the present type would take up; that one could get fresh ones made in a few minutes; and that the arrangement of any lock can be altered several times."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 306, 26 December 1936, Page 13
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111LIKE POSTAGE STAMPS. Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 306, 26 December 1936, Page 13
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