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In both cases the actions can be presented pinless and this, if I recall correctly, was the reason that hand detachable locks were very first designed by WR in 1895.


As discussed in the current SSM article on Westley Richards, hand detachable was an unexpected outcome of the instruction given to the WR designers to remove the unsightly pins from the boxlock.


Such a long, long time to be gone, and a short time to be there.