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    Default chatwood hobbs milner and ratner

    Was moving an old safe today and emptied it before shifting it, I knew these locks were in there, but it had been a while since I looked at them, so had a nosy and thought I would post up some pictures.
    Hobbs protector with the Milners keyway.
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    I assume that this is a Ratner rather than a Milner, single sided keyway.
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    Some Chatwood combination locks, Including a Sam dummy dial which I have not seen before. Still had the bits of original literature that was used as lock packings.
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    A Milner reverse action that unfortunately has been drilled, Don't see many of these, was there a particular reason they did the reverse action design and did they all have the little pivoting bolt stump?
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    Looking at those pictures again I am now thinking that whoever drilled that did it when it was already in the unlocked position

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    Great find some really nice safe locks there, love that Hobb's Protector. You have some amazing stuff squirrelled away inside old safes Gary!

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    Cheers Huw, I have been collecting and saving stuff for a long while and some of it is that well tucked away I haven't seen it for years!
    I have quite a few Hobbs protector locks, but only one of the ones pictured.

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