George Price doors

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Someone asked for pictures of the free standing 20th Century safes not that long ago and I posted this, which is all I have- not one I saw or worked on but the only example my dad encountered back in the 1960s

Never seen one to this day, but used to encounter dozens of their safes and SRDs with the Ne Plus Ultra locks, so can only guess these were a very rare breed.

Milner bought vacant land next to Price's Cleveland Safe Works, blocking any expansion of Price's factory. Hence Price had to concentrate on SRD rather than free-standing safes, which are not that common. And so many old safes were scrapped in 1960s-70s, not being resistant to modern explosive or flame-cutting torches. Scrapyards had mountains of them, as did many quarries around large towns :-( .