£20,000,000 WORTH OF JEWELS
(Recd. 2 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 14. Packed in 20 boxes and carried in a plain.van with a police escort, £20,000,000 worth of Crown jewels travelled through the London traffic today, returning from a jeweller’s to the Tower of London. The jewels were kept at Windsor Castle throughout the war and in 1945 were sent to Messrs Garrards in London’s West End. Five armed detectives travelled with the jewels. Five others watched from a following police car.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 15 October 1947, Page 7
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