NEW WINDOW SHUTTER.
PROTECTION WHEN SMASHED.
DEVICE AGAINST THIEVES
Representatives of the metropolitan police and insurance companies met recent!'/ in a workshop off Great Portland Street, London, to watch a demons!ration of an invention to prevent smash-and-grab raids. The inventor is Mr. W • J. Samuel, aged 57, an engineer at Chatham dockyard, and when his audience arrived they found liiri! standing in iront of u thick plate-glass window with a brick in his hand.
He threw the brick through the window, and immediately 'i shutter tell w.tli such rapidity that it, would have, been impossible for anyone to put his hand through the hole in the glass.
The invention is claimed to be so simple that there is very little possibility of anything going wrong. As soon ns the window receives anv violent, pressure a small spring at the lop releases another spring, which, in turn, releases the steel shutter.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20622, 22 July 1930, Page 9
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150NEW WINDOW SHUTTER. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20622, 22 July 1930, Page 9
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