As shown below, Andrew Fraser was a safemaker in Bridgeton, Glasgow, and also made safes under the name of Bash & Co. from the same premises.
In the same family John Fraser was the Scottish Agent for the Chatwood Safe Company working from a private address nearby at Glasgow Green.
My Grandfather’s company, Fishers for Safes Ltd was on the other hand a dealer in safes, having them made and badged Fishers by Wm E Lee & Son of Brick Lane Sedgley. He later became the Agent for Scotland & Northern Ireland for the Ratner Safe Company.
Andrew Fraser’s business fell on hard times in the 30’s and 40’s and he was then employed as a safe mechanic by Fishers just before I joined the
company in 1948. These extracts are from a 1934 Glasgow Directory.
An early example of a light quality Bash Safe simply opened by having the top hinge removed and the door taken out backwards.
