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ABSTRACTS OF TESTIMONIALS TO THE SECURITY OF CHUBB’S FIRE-PROOF SAFES.

In the Great Fire at Messrs. Rylands and Sons’, Manchester, 1st March,1854, the whole of the Books, Papers, and Cash were preserved in one ofChubb's Fire-proof Safes, after it bad been subjected to Fourteen Hours’Intense Heat.

In the Fire at Messrs. Wm, Jone3 and Sons, Store Street Mills, Man-chester, on 15th May, 1854, all the Cash, Notes, Policies, &c., were enclosedin a Chubb’s Fire-proof Safe, which, being built in a chimney-flue, wasexposed to an extraordinary amount of heat, yet the contents were found

PERFECTLY UNINJURED.

Unsuccessful Attempt to Blow Open a Chubb’s Safe with Gunpowder .—On the night of 30th August, 1854, some burglars broke into the counting-house of Mr. Blair, Irk Mills, Manchester, and introduced a very heavycharge of Gunpowder into the keyhole of a Chubb’s Safe, endeavouring,by firing it, to force open the safe, but were unsuccessful, although theforce of the explosion was so great as to move the Safe some inches fromits position.

At the extensive Fire in Bread Street, Cheapside, on January, 1854, whenthe premises of Messrs. Townend and others were destroyed, the adjoiningwarehouse of Messrs. Liddiard and Co. was preserved by means of a Chubb’sFire-proof l>oor fixed in the party-wall.

Fire at the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway Offices, Man•chestei'. —In this Fire, on 25tii November, 1854, One of Chubb’s Fire-proofSafes was exposed to such intense heat that all the brass handles and knobswere melted off, yet all its contents, consisting of valuable books, bank-notes, &c., escaped without the slightest injury.

Burglary Defeated.— On 8th February, 1855, the office of Messrs. T. andS. Jones, of Wolverhampton, was broken into, and the thieves made aviolent attack upon a Chubb’s Thief-proof Safe, which contained a largesum of money. They spared no efforts, having broken several very stronghousebreaking instruments in the attempt, and considerably disfigured theSafe, but were obliged to retire without effecting their object.

The only Fire-proof Safes in the United Kingdom which received the award of the Prize Medal, with “ Special Approba-tion,” at the Great Exhibition of 1851, were of Chubb and Son’s manufacture. The decision of the Jury is thereforeconclusive of the great superiority of Chubb’s Fire-proof and Thief-proof Safes against Eire or Thieves. They are made ofthe strongest Wrought Iron, and the Fire-proof Linings are filled with the best proved non-conductors of heat, being puttogether so strongly as to resist the falling of timbers, brick-work, &c., in case of fire.

Japanned Cash, Deed, Paper, and Writing Boxes; Morocco Despatch Boxes, &c., of all sizes, fitted with the

Patent Detector Lock.

IRON DOORS AND FRAMES FOR STRONG ROOMS.

COMPLETE ILLUSTRATED LISTS, WITH PRICES AND SIZES, WILL BE SENT ON APPLICATION.

CHUBB AND SON,

57 , St. Pauls Churchyard, London; 28, Lord Street, Liverpool; 16, Market Street, Manchester;

and Horseley Fields, Wolverhampton.