Milners Double Door Safe

This old Milners Double Door safe, although not exactly sure of the date of manufacture, I would date at early 1900’s due to the fact it has brass fittings. Thankfully, I didn't have to open this particular safe as it was already unlocked when we got there. The customer had lost the one and only key they had for it, so we were tasked with taking the back pan off (inside cover), removing the lock and taking it back to our workshop to change the combination of levers around so if the previous key was found it would no longer work. We then had the painstaking task of cutting a new key by hand, which took 3 hours to complete - this was not just your standard Yale key! Once the key had been cut by hand we were then able to copy a second one by machine. Armed with two new keys, we returned to site to re-fit, and voila, we now have a 100 year old lock working better then most locks, and in my opinion more secure than modern locks. A true representation of when we made things with pride rather than mass produced.