Leighton Rogers, an American clerk at the National City Bank's Petrograd branch, sets out in a similar spirit to deliver 9 million rubles' worth of treasury notes to a safe-deposit vault.
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And in 2010, thieves entered the safe deposit vault at a bank in Gravesend, Brooklyn, but for some reason, according to news reports at the time, they appeared not to have stolen anything of value.
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He also built multi-storied complex Security House at Calcutta as his head office, which stands at Netaji Subhas Road, Kolkata. He also started Calcutta Safe Deposit Vault Ltd at Security House at Calcutta, which was one of the safest vault of those times located under the ground of building.Calcutta Safe Deposit Vault The vault was modelled on safe deposit centres in London that Ojha had come across during a visit to Europe in the early 1930s. The vault opened in January, 1940 is still in operation.
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The United California Bank burglary took place on 24 March 1972, when the safe deposit vault at United California Bank in Laguna Niguel, California, was broken into and $9 million ($ million today) in cash and valuables were looted by professional burglars led by Amil Dinsio.
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The two-story safe-deposit vault was moved to the basement between September and November 1957. Shortly afterward, in March 1958, City Bank Farmers Trust took over the construction of a skyscraper on 399 Park Avenue, which the Astor family had previously been in the process of developing.
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At opening, the Cunard Building featured over of space, of which was made available for tenants when it opened. A basement in the building contained a safe-deposit vault. The structure also included a fireproof internal structure. According to data collected by The Real Deal magazine, the precise floor area of the Cunard Building is .
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G-Men learn that "Brenda", notorious jewel thief, is heading for the US, to steal the Belgravian crown jewels currently on exhibit. The jewels are placed on a ship bound for Belgravia. However, the guard is murdered and the treasures are stolen. Agent Dexter, alias Agent X-9, trails Blackstone, one of the gang members, who hides the jewels in a safe deposit vault of a bank.
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The Peoples National Bank burglary took place on February 18–19, 1961, when the safe deposit vault at the Seattle, Washington branch of Peoples National Bank of Washington (now U.S. Bancorp) was broken into and $45,689.53 ($ today) in cash were looted. The perpetrator, unemployed pilot Wells Benner van Steenbergh, Jr., was apprehended two weeks later. He received a 20-year prison sentence but was paroled after serving slightly more than a quarter of his sentence.
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The Great Riviera Bank Robbery, also known as Dirty Money and Sewers of Gold, is a 1979 British heist film written and directed by Francis Megahy and starring Ian McShane, Warren Clarke, Stephen Greif and Christopher Malcolm. In the film, based on a real incident in 1976, members of a neofascist group team up with professional criminals to rob the safe deposit vault of a bank in a French resort town. It is the British version of the French film Les Égouts du paradis , released the same year.
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The principle ground and lower ground floor spaces are fitted with a collection of exceptionally fine and now rare Australian marbles. The circular Chubb Safe Deposit Vault door is the earliest, as well as one of only two, doors of its type in Australia, the other also being in Sydney. The elegant grandeur of the banking chamber space with its fine marble and bronze finishes and fittings and the play of natural and artificial light within it evoke the stature, role and functions of one of Sydney's former leading banking institutions.
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A remnant of the building's usage by the United States Custom House was the jail cells used to detain smugglers and spies. The basement was used for such a purpose between 1863 and 1899, with 12 jail cells having been located in the basement. Embedded in a wall was a cannonball, a keg of gunpowder, and over 100 rudimentary bombs that were believed to have been armaments for custom house employees during the New York City draft riots of 1863. The basement also contains the safe-deposit vault that was formerly on the main banking floor.
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The main Safe Deposit Vault door and small-scale emergency doors employed the most up-to-date technology of the time, and have not required replacement since their installation. The technology extended to the treatment of the retracting floor around the main door, used to allow the door to swing freely for opening and closing, and also to keep it in place during the Bank's operating hours. The reinforced concrete frame was a large-scale concrete structure used relatively early within Australia. The strong rooms located within the columns display a significant degree of technical innovation.
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