COMMONWEALTH BANK
NEW PREMISES IN LONDON. \ DETAILS OF STRONGROOM. (United Frees .-Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, September 30. 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; which is 25ft square and Oft high, is steel lined and surrounded on all sides by 21' inches of concrete, reinforced by twisted steel called tangbar.' It has two steel doors ISip thick, weighing 12 tons, made specially to resist the oxyacetylene blowpipe and nitroglycerine. These doors are now. being, constructed at Chubb and Son’s works, at Wolverhampton, where a number, of bankers and business, men witnessed the casting of the doors and other-processes.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21146, 2 October 1930, Page 9
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