✨ Should drivers be allowed to lock parked cars?
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A century ago, it was okay to block someone in if the car park was busy
It’s a strange question, but one we had to ponder 100 years ago…
You may have had to read the question above twice just to confirm that you understood it correctly, so ludicrously self-evident does the answer seem.
But th
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A century ago, it was okay to block someone in if the car park was busy
It’s a strange question, but one we had to ponder 100 years ago…
You may have had to read the question above twice just to confirm that you understood it correctly, so ludicrously self-evident does the answer seem.
But there was a time when this was a perfectly legitimate thing for Autocar to be asking.
Locks for cars started appearing in late 1900s America, where “car stealing has flourished”. Initially these didn’t lock the car itself but rather the ignition, steering wheel or bonnet. In fact, one car could have as many as eight of the things.
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By 1921, the Daily Mail here in Britain was “calling attention to the marked increase in theft of motor cars” and imploring owners “to take the elementary precaution of having their cars fixed with one of the locking arrangements”.
Three years on, Autocar praised an “ingenious” creation: a mas