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Bizarre British Anti-Crime Designs from the '50s/'60s

By Rain Noe - February 15, 2012

in Object Culture

It's like something out of James Bond's "Q" department: Some very strange British anti-crime designs from the late '50s and early '60s have been archived by UK-based media company British Pathe, including anti-theft briefcases and a silly, if seemingly indestructible, bowler hat. While the entirety of the videos is unembeddable, here's a preview for one of them:

While we'd love to see more than the half-dozen or so items demonstrated, each video's only a few minutes long. The 1959 one can be viewed here, the 1961 video, here.

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