Suggestions for car anti-theft locks, focusing on a steering lock combined with a switch.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 113\3\ scan0002 | |
| Date | 12th May 1919 | |
| X. 36-04 Bn {W.O. Bentley / Mr Barrington} 16/P12.5.19. To R. {Sir Henry Royce} from Bn. {W.O. Bentley / Mr Barrington} c. to EH. c. to De. X.3504 RE LOCKS FOR PREVENTION OF THEFT OF CARS With reference to the above matter, I am receiving a large number of suggestions none of which have been of any value or novelty, except that one suggestion I have before me of Lieut. Debenham, which is for a letter lock for the steering gear combined with a switch. I have not details of the proposal before me, but thought the generalized suggestion for a steering lock in which means are incorporated for preventing the car being driven away by the owner without first unlocking the steering, is rather simply effected by the incorporation of a switch. If I remember rightly you were not in favour of locking the steering gear, but if you had this in mind I was not sure that it had also occurred to you that it would be necessary to have some such safeguard as the above. Bn. {W.O. Bentley / Mr Barrington} | ||
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