History Of Locks 51
^ Otto Sellin the then owner of Kromer
surrounded himself with experts in their
field, including Bill Stanton from England.
< The Bode Panzer patent which Otto
Sellin purchased the rights to and gave
to Bill Stanton in 1964 to solve the
technical problems and to widen its
scope to use with 3 and 4 wheel models
as well as left and right hand models.
the next number. The operator asks in
his mind ‘did I turn the dial three or four
times?’ and then concentration is lost.
If just that one element, counting the
revolutions, could be removed then the
whole sequence would become much
simpler. Well, that is just what Bill Stanton
accomplished in 1965.
From very early on in his career, Bill
Stanton was fascinated with keyless
combination locks. He had a Lips
combination lock mounted on a stand and
would spend hours analysing everything
that was felt through the dial. Later, when
working for Chubb’s R&D department,
he made many improvements to their
combination locks and whe