F Whitfield "The City Safe"

[Steve48]

Steve, I hope that you are now well on the road to recovery.

Purely for interests sake I am attaching a picture of what appears to be a heavier bodied version of a Whitfield of a similar age.

I regret that I have no further information than this and I cannot even remember from where I copied it. From the tenon joints it appears to have body plates about ½ inch thick.

That is certainly different and heavier, mine is without doubt boiler plate on the outer skin and about five sixteenths of an inch thick, but with heavier framing that does appear to be wrought iron. Oh and a whole bevy of rivets. I still find this type of construction to be out of keeping perhaps with 1885 it simply strikes me as an earlier form of construction based on so many things I have worked on and seen over the years.
Thanks for posting your photo though, all these things help to build a picture. I suppose too that even if there were advances in technology not all companies were up to date in their methods or able to achieve them due to financial constraints.
Steve.