NEW WINDOW SHUTTER
PROTECTION WHEN SMASHED. Representatives of the metropolitan police and insurance companies met recently in a workshop off Great Portland Street, London, to watch a demonsi 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 him standing in front of a thick plateglass window with a ‘brick h hie hand. He threw th-' brick through the window, and immediately a shutter fell with such rapidity .that it would have been impossible for. anyone to put .hie hand through the hole in the glass* The invention U claimed to be-so simple that there is very little possibility of anything going wrong. As soon as the window receiy.es any. violent pressure, a- small spring at th© top releases anotbey spring, which, in turn, releases thd ptpel shutter, . .... _ -
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Taranaki Daily News, 24 July 1930, Page 6
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147NEW WINDOW SHUTTER Taranaki Daily News, 24 July 1930, Page 6
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