Chubb 1K61 and 1K60 Padlocks

Paul Bennett

Does anybody have any information on the Chubb 1K61 and 1K60 padlocks. I have purchased on of each and adding them to my Chubb collection but can’t find any detail about them. They are AVA core padlocks made with a brass body and possible a steel shackle.

Thanks

Alan Smith

Paul Bennett wrote
Does anybody have any information on the Chubb 1K61 and 1K60 padlocks. I have purchased on of each and adding them to my Chubb collection but can’t find any detail about them. They are AVA core padlocks made with a brass body and possible a steel shackle.

Thanks

Hi Paul,
I have some info on Chubb products, I worked for Chubb Australia and have some info I will attach.

I will see if I can find any more on 1K60

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Paul Bennett

Thanks Allen for your information. What ever happened to Chubb. They produced some great locks, then they seemed to outsource to a lower grade of padlocks. The AVAs are great locks.

Thanks again for the information.

Paul Bennett

Alan Smith

Thanks Allen for your information. What ever happened to Chubb. They produced some great locks, then they seemed to outsource to a lower grade of padlocks. The AVAs are great locks.

Thanks again for the information.

Paul Bennett

Hi Paul, you are most welcome.

I worked for Chubb Australia Limited from 1983 through to 99/00 when it closed it’s Australian safe factories.
Chubb where initially sold of to ASSA who then keeped the high security locks section and moved the safe section onto Gunebbo allmost next day

From that point most safes where made in asia.
Gunebbo were unable to use the "Chubb’ name and had to settle for “Chubdsafes” all one word.
So in Australia, it’ easy to work out which safes are “real Chubb product” and which are made overseas.

Chubb Australia along with Wormald, CMI Safe Co & Lord Safe Co made some of the best safes in the world in the 60 ’s throught to the late 80’s
It’s a shame the safe market fall apart here in Australia, most of the companies above no longer exist.
We have only one remains safe manufacture left in Australia, CMI Safe Co.

Huw Eastwood

Paul Bennett wrote
….What ever happened to Chubb….

A bit of a catastrophic roller coaster ride starting with the Racal takeover in 1984 then Williams Holdings in 1997, then Assa Abloy in 2000….
Some of the padlocks are i think still going under the Union brand though, and bolts and window fittings under Yale.
As an aside Chubb was one of those long established household British names whom if someone had told me when I started in the early 80s they’d be no more would never have believed it…

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Huw Eastwood

Alan Smith wrote
We have only one remains safe manufacture left in Australia, CMI Safe Co.

Are they any good?

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Alan Smith

Hi Huw,

Yes, they make a good product.

There base range is made in China but there higher end stuff is good, (Commerce, Premier & Commander models)

We have some info about them on our “unlocksafes” web site on our web site, www.unitedsafes.com.au under home tab.

Started out around 1940, family run business only just resently sold to new owners, most of the original family members still on board.