Quarter vent window locks

[Mc Bean]

Has anybody seen or can tell me about these locks I acquired today, I was told that they are window locks.

Andy

[Harv]

G'day McBean,

When I first got my EK, the old boy swore that it needed quarter window locks... not that I could ever find anything like a set. The only other ones I have seen are these:
http://memimage.cardomain.com/member_images/11/web/479000-479999/479523_259_full.jpg

Cheers,
Harv

[Mc Bean]

Hi Harv
Thanks for the reply but I can't seem to get the link to open.

[Harv]

Apologies - about 2/3 of the way down this page:

http://www.cardomain.com/ride/479523/1955-holden-ute/page-5/

Cheers,
Harv

[Mc Bean]

Thanks for that Harv........looks like I have some more interesting reference info...
Thanks mate
Andy

[FCV08]

Andy

Just for your info I have a set of these locks that came with the FJ ute I bought a few months back.

Cheers

Craig D

[hsv-001]

Is this only for old worn out locks ? My quarter window locks work .I would guess the lugs on the bottom of the buttons break off and they then turn free and this is the reason for the lock brackets. Someone who has played with these recently could you please enlighten me . Haydn.

[mcl1959]

FX and FJ had no vent window lock buttons so a tool was easily made by crooks to slip under the window, turn the handle and flip it open. FE introduced the lock button which pretty much stopped the crooks but there were still enterprising thieves who were able to make a tool that slipped under the window, pushed the button, then turned the handle. I have one of these tools from an old garage - apparently they used it for unlocking cars with the keys locked inside.......

I've never seen anything like the locks you have pictured but they look pretty well made. Maybe just an enterprising back yard engineer.

Ken

[FCRB26]

FX and FJ had no vent window lock buttons so a tool was easily made by crooks to slip under the window,

Thought people were to honest in the 50,s to steal cars ?

[ACE]

Years ago on my first FC with the help of my older brother we drilled and tapped the lock button and fitted a very small bolt with a knurled head.
You'd screw the bolt into stop the button from being pushed in.
ACE 

[DJ]

I've seen a version of the lock button fitted with a small bolt with a knurled head. It looked good & worked very well as long as you avoided damaging the spring.
The next most common method of opening a car with the keys locked in the ignition was practiced by the NRMA (and many others) - a piece of hooked fencing wire or flat steel poked down the window rubber and pull the door lock button up. It was so simple & fast that most people could break into their own cars without needing to call the NRMA.
Where I come from many still leave their cars unlocked & the keys in the ignition when they shop. Yet, at the end of the last drought they only found two cars in a local dam that hadn't been dry in more than 20 years.

[mcl1959]

Theft was well and truly alive in the 50's, here is an article from 1959 Royalauto along with ads for other anti theft measures. 100 cars a week stolen in Victoria



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