A BURGLAR-PROOF SAFE THAT WORKS.
With characteristic thoroughness the Germans have devised "a real burglarproof safe, so cleverly designed that it will baffle even the burglars who work with the latest, of oxygen and acetylene blow-pipes.: It is called the carrousel, or "roundabout safe." It exhibits a polygonal steel structure revolving freely on ball bearings. It is built into a wall, and when the outer door is closed a small electromotor is set in motion, whereupon the safe starts revolving ceaselessly and noiselessly on its axis within its stone chamber. Any tampering with its motions causes an alarm bell to ring. So long as the safe continues to revolve the blowpipe can have no effect upon it, since the flame cannot be applied long enough to any particular spot to make an impression.
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Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, 11 September 1912, Page 7
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