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These car safes according to locksmith Southwark were built of sheet wrought iron riveted to an angle iron frame forming the outer body, with a sheet metal inner body. The space between the outer and inner body was filled with fire-resisting composition.

The single plate door had a lock pan bolted to it. On the forward facing side of the lock pan, were fixed large bolts, moved by a bolt control handle. The bolts were locked by a small lock. In most of the early safes, the small lock was a lever drawer lock.

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Any small metal workshop, with a sheet-metal guillotine, drill press, and a couple of hammers, could build safes. And throughout the 19th century, there were about a hundred small safe makers. Many often practiced various deceptions on their customers. Many used an ineffective fire resisting lining. Some safes contained no fire resisting composition at all, just empty space.

Within two or three decades of the invention of the safe, with the population and business booming, there arose a thriving trade in ‘second-hand’ safes. These were actually new-made safes, sold as ‘refurbished second-hand safes’, to disguise their suspiciously low price.

Chubb described one put up for auction in a provincial city. When the porters lifted the safe onto a table, it was so top-heavy, that it fell off the table, and when it hit the floor, the body burst apart. The fire resisting lining of the second-hand safe was found to be garden turf, in which live earthworms could be seen still wriggling.

Reputable locksmith Southwark said safe makers generally regarded six levers as sufficient for the safe lock. Safe makers bought in their locks, and some bought safe locks specially made to deceive.

On an iron backplate (cheaper than brass) 2 levers were fitted. The cast brass cap had a pin cast in the inside of it to take up the rest of the space in the lock case and keep the 2 levers in their right place.

And they had the cheek to use an escutcheon marked powderproof lock or inviolable lock. Early locks were mounted vertically up. Often, 6 thinner levers were fitted in the space of the usual 4. Reputable safe makers soon found a problem with locks mounted vertically up, and changed to vertically down.

But many makers continued for decades to mount locks vertically up. Looking into the keyhole, these have the levers to the right of the keyhole. There are no false notches, and gates are not close.

If a cabinet lever key with a bit not wide enough to reach the bolt talon is inserted, turned slightly, and jiggled in the lock, there is a fair chance with a few different keys, that the gates will align — then gravity will drop the bolt!

Locksmith Southwark says car or cabinet lock jigglers can also be used. These locks usually take pipe keys, though later ones began to take pin keys. Even with locks mounted vertically down, in some circumstances, many small safes are small enough to turn upside down to try this.

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