Dodge Safety-Latch Door Lock - 1956

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Dodge Safety-Latch Door Lock - 1956

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Item No: arcd03737
Title: Dodge Safety-Latch Door Lock - 1956
Media Type: Photographic Prints
Source: Automobile Reference Collection
Notes:

New Dodge Safety-Latch Door Lock

Here’s how the new 1956 Dodge safety-latch door lock works to prevent injury to passengers from being thrown out of the car through doors sprung-open by collision impact. Exhaustive laboratory, roll-over and collision tests showed that, in some cases, the door post is deflected sufficiently in a fore-and-aft direction to separate from the striker plate, leaving the door free to fly open. However, with the new Dodge’s safety-latch door lock, interlocking pieces of heavy-gauge steel on the door and striker prevents fore-and-aft separation from the door post, thus keeping the latch and striker safely engaged.

For release Tuesday, October 4, 1955

Dodge News Bureau, 2900 Guardian Bldg., Detroit 26, Michigan

From the Collection of F.T. Snyder, Jr.


Creation Year: 1950

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