When news reached the government in the early hours of the 9th of April, 1940 that the patrol boat "Pol III" had been attacked and that enemy ships were approaching Oslo, orders went out to evacuate the gold to the vault in Lillehammer. Heavies (a British term for forklift) from local businesses were used to load the gold onto 26 civilian lorries. The last lorries left Oslo hours before the Wehrmacht arrived.