The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-07-15 00:00:00

ATTEMPTED ROBBERY IN_PRICES-STREET

-‘‘ Messrs. Milner and Son,

"Gentlemen,—l am glad to inform you that the Safe I pur-
chased from you eight years ago, defeated the most violent
efforts of some thieves who obtained access to my premises last
night. They had cut a large hole in the outer plate, and tried
to force off the lock, or to force open the door„with a powerful
"jemmy" (which they left behind them,) I without success,
as we found the Cash and Books " saf ' his morning. Please
send me another, the same size,ofjo y improved make.

" D.k.VI D MT LELLA N

Price-street, Liverpo )1, 13fitc261h,

Note.—The Safe alluded.t6iiaove Was one of our weakest and
lightest make—strong p e-iron tinned,—improved upon many
years ago.—T. M. an .
ANOTHER T MPH OF MILNER'S "HOLDFAST"

SAFES.
/BURGLARY AT OLDHAM.
." fiddle Level Drainage, Contractor's Office,
March (Cambridgeshire), 21st October, 1850.

"Sir,--My premises, in Oldham, were broken into on the
night of Wednesday last, and strong, but I am glad to say
unsuccessful cfforts made to get at. the c,ntents of the Milner's
" Holdfast" Safe you supplied me with some two years ago. I
am glad to be able to bear this testimony to their value- You
are quite at liberty to make what use you think proper of this.
" I am, Sir, yours respectfully,
'HENRY EVANS.

"Mr. Davies, Agent for Milner's Safes.
" 28, Market-street. Manchester."
NOTE.—We supplied r. Evans with the above No. 3 Hold-
fast for Oldham, and.a No. 6 Holdfast, and two Chests, for
March, in January, 1848.' I'. R. D.
THOMAS MILNER and SON have great pleasure in publishing
the above so immediately after' the following:—
TO BULLION DEALERS, BANKERS, AND ALL HOLDERS
OF CASH, PLATE, AND VALUABLE PROPERTY.
ExtraordiTarg and Successful Resistance to Robbers.

MILNERS'S "HOIDFAST" AND FIRE•RESIS•TING SAFE,
the Strongest Safeguard against Robbery and Fire.

Early last year, Meisrs. Wlll.*Watson and Co., (late Watson
Brothers) applied to Thos. Milner and Son toconstrnct for them
one of their strong licildfast Safes or Chests, to contain 10,000
collars in silver, for its safe conveyance over the mountains
from the mines to Templet). The gentleman writing for the
Safe was at the time lying confined to his bed, from a bullet
and two ()wove wounds he had received in an attack of the

ifie7lused was broken up, and plundered of a large amount of
specie. - The Safe and Waggon constructed for it were exhi-
bited at our works, and to several Liverpool houses, and met
with peat approval from several of our engineers and practical
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cei;ed the following polite end unsolicited note from Mr. Wat-
son, who has since given us perm:ssion to publish it
" Liverpool, Derby-bmidings, 20th Sept., 1850.

" Mr. Watson presents his complimenti to Mr. Milner, and
has to communicate to him the following extract of a letter,
dated the 11th ultimo, from his partner at Tampico :
The iron waggon ana safe (es ✓osephine), with sixty bars of
silver, was attacked by forty-rockers between Catore and San
Luis Potosi, and they worked twelve hours to open the chest,
and they did not succeed; meantime assistance came from San
Luis Potosi

,nd does you credit, and will, no

'This is very satisfactory,
doubt, lead to further orders.' "
The whole of the outside of this safe was half-inch wrought
iron, proof against sledge-hammers, chisels, or any other
violence, and well it did its duty.
We have at this time a number of large Banker's and Mer-
chants Safes in course of construction—one for a Diamond
Merchant i❑ London—to which we invite the attention of the
Public. Our Wrrks are the most extensive and complete of
their class in the world, employing more experienced workmen
(upwards of 100, assisted by the most approved and powerful
machinery), than all the Sufemakers in England together—a
Lancashire Workshop well worth looking over. Its whole
operations—from the cutting up and working of the Wrought-
iron Plates and Bars, from the tickness of `half-a•crown to that
of its diameter, to the building up of these superb and massive
'-- Fire-resist

Safes, ..ne tilling, of their, chambers with the „Aim;
Materials—the arrangement of their powerful Hinges, Bolts,
and impregnable Locks—altogether are well worthy the study
of ti►e mechanic and the man of science.
The Fre-resisting reputation of Milner's Safes is founded
upon experiments of sc►entific men, and facts; by the former
their superiority to others has been proved; and something
better than the merely negative fame of never having been
tried is elicited from' the following among hundreds of in-
stances:—

Fires at Blackaller's shin chandlery stores, Liverpool; at
Messrs. J. and W. Walker's, builders, Birkenhead; at Messrs.
Garniss and Co.'s, outfitters, Liverpooi; at Plimsaul Brothers,
chandlery stores, Plymouth ; at S. and R. and Thos. Brown's,
Queen-street, Glasgow ; at Ker, Doering. and Co.'s,
Glascow ;
at Charles Boyd and Sons, Clyde-street, Glasgow; at Mr. Thos.
Haigh's, the great Fire in Market-street, Manchester, &c. •
MILNER'S Holdfast and Fire-resisting Safes, Chests, and
Boxes, suitable for all classes of Buildings. Impregnable Locks
and Castilloges at the Works, OA And 14, Lo!d-street, and 47
to 57, Cable-street, L.iverpco), and hond'i Repot; 47A, Moor-
gat ~r Loptlep,