BURGLAR-PROOF
COMMONWEALTH BANK STRONGROOM LN LOAD ON.
STEEL AND CONCRETE LINED AND SPECIAL DOORS.
nj.P.A. by Elec. l'ol. ,Copyright) DON LU-n, Sept-. <a>.
Any burglar rash enough to attempt to force the strongroom of the Commonwealth Bank's new premises in London will soon abandon the job for the room, 25. t square and Oft high is steel lined and surrounded on all sides by 2iin of concrete reinforced with twisted steel caned tangbar. ■ It wiji have two steel doors Idm thick, weighing 12 tons, made especially to resist the oxyacetylene blowpipe, and mtro-glycerine. These are now being constructed at Chub!)' anu yons’ works at Wolverhampton, where a number of hankers and business men witnessed the casting 01 the doors, and other processes.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 11326, 2 October 1930, Page 3
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