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    Default Submarine key ??

    I was sent this picture by a friend that knows of my interest in locks.

    All I know about it, is that it is supposed to be a picture of a key from a WW11 German submarine.

    I don’t know where on the submarine it is from. The front door??

    I would love to see the (inside) of the lock that it is from.

    If anyone knows anything about it I would be very interested.

    If not, enjoy a most unusual key.
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    Interesting... I can just imagine the conversation though.

    Unterseebootubercapitan Mainwaring: "Vot is das problem?"
    Unterseebootuntermenschseeman Pike: "I haf dropped ze unterseebootturenkey in die trinken!"
    Unterseebootcapitan: "Verdammerung! Das boot ist sinken! Du bist ein dummer Junge!



    (Apologies to anyone German or who can actually properly write in German... it's intended to be tongue-in-cheek)

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    I think that is a bode panzer key.
    http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=7...%20key&f=false

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chris Belcher View Post
    I think that is a bode panzer key.
    Certainly looks the same.

    In all seriousness, regarding the idea that it was for a submarine - I find that difficult to support myself. I just can't see the need for such high security for something that was otherwise so well guarded (by men with guns, and by being surrounded by water most of the time!) and even if we assume that the submarine was being used to carry highly secret things, it's still a stretch for the imagination?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Arcade Al View Post
    Certainly looks the same.

    In all seriousness, regarding the idea that it was for a submarine - I find that difficult to support myself. I just can't see the need for such high security for something that was otherwise so well guarded (by men with guns, and by being surrounded by water most of the time!) and even if we assume that the submarine was being used to carry highly secret things, it's still a stretch for the imagination?
    You're forgetting to take paranoia into account.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ian D. Lewis View Post
    You're forgetting to take paranoia into account.
    True. However it's far superior to anything that we were using in the military over here during the same period, as far as I know, even for very secret stuff? I'm prepared to stand corrected though.

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    Check out Oliver's tresoroffnungsblog. Fantastic website. it may help. By the way what has happened to Adrian? Doug

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    Quote Originally Posted by Doug MacQueen View Post
    Check out Oliver's tresoroffnungsblog. Fantastic website. it may help. By the way what has happened to Adrian? Doug
    He's got some great photos of some very nice locks. He has some photos of a Bode Panzer (which would also be my guess) here.

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    The last time that I saw a Bode Panzer key, was some years ago hanging on a cord around Olivers neck. I aked him why and he repled that it it allowed him to judge peoples knowledge.

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    Well as suggested by another person on another forum, it could have been the key to access an enigma machine. I am sure that they would have wanted the best lock money could buy to protect them from anybody and everybody.

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