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From the Rolls-Royce experimental archive: a quarter of a million communications from Rolls-Royce, 1906 to 1960's. Documents from the Sir Henry Royce Memorial Foundation (SHRMF).
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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