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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 December 1938, Page 5

A sharp contract between the methods used in Seattle and in London in the transport of bullion to and from banks was drawn by Mr E. Wood, secretary of the Otago Importers and Shippers’ Association in an address at the annual meeting of the association. When he was in Seattle early this year, Mr Wood said he saw an armoured car used for the carriage of large sums of money. He was so interested in the vehicle that he studied it closely until he saw the guard peering suspiciously at him through a slit in the rear of the car. Later, in the West End of London, he saw an ordinary carrier’s van standing outside a bank and several men carrying bars of gold on their shoulders into the building. There was no guard, and not even a policeman was in sight, the only official present being a bank clerk, who checked the bars of gold as they were carried past him. The speaker was even permitted to hold one of the ingots of gold valued at about £2OOO, in his own hands.