WARNING TO BURGLARS

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 167, 11 April 1935, Page 16

WARNING TO BURGLARS

Million Combinations on Strongroom Door Burglars who are toying with the idea of an assault on the strongroom in the Prudential Life Assurance Company’s new building are warned that their efforts will be in vain. The modern burglar has called science to his aid in the form of the blowpipe, but the strongroom door fitted i n the new Prudential building is constructed of antiblowpipe material which will defy the efforts of the burglar for many hours, The door is supplied by the worldfamous firm of Chubb, for whom Gillies and Laird, of Featherston Street, are the agents. The orthodox method of picking the lock is, in this case, non-existent, because the intruder will be faced with a double set of four-wheeled combination locks which, with literally a million combinations, will defy any attempts at opening the door unless the. correct figures are used. The never-ceasing war between the locksmith and the safe engineer on the one hand and the burglar and fire on the other has been the means of producing hundreds of devices by Ihe firm for adding to the security of valuables and countering those dangers which are ever present owing to the skill of the scientific thief, the ravages of fire, the carelessness constantly displayed over the custody of keys, and the neglect of ordinary precautions against fire which often have such serious results.