THE door industry journal summer 2022 127 2 Also online at: www.dijonline.co.uk Locks & Building Hardware World’s Most Famous Club Gets Abus Security Makeover Perhaps the most famous club in the world, Liverpool’s Cavern Club, has had a security make-over with a new suite of Vitesse cylinders from ABUS installed by local locksmith. Lock and Key Master Limited, t/a LKM Security Systems. Now every lock at the club – from the front doors, display cabinets, pub, restaurant, offices and back-of-house facilities – all work seamlessly in a fully master keyed system. With patent protection until 2034, unlimited trademark protection* and technical copy protection, ABUS’s Vitess combines reliable protection against cylinder and key tampering with unbeatable value for money. The Vitess system can be extended at any time, giving locksmiths the flexibility to make changes at a later stage. And the Vitess cylinder is perfect for projects with single-differ locks to complex master key systems. Its multiple paracentric 3D curved profile and coded profile rib with profile control pin is patent protected until 2034, with unlimited trademark protection. “We use and trust ABUS cylinders for their highsecurity specification and long patent protection,” says James Jardine from LKM Security Systems. “The key system at the Cavern Club was beginning to show signs of wear and tear and had been changed and refurbished on an ad hoc basis over the years. We fitted escutcheons where necessary and built six differs into the system to increase the scheme’s safety.” The Cavern Club opened in 1957 in Liverpool as a jazz club, later becoming a centre of the rock and roll scene in Liverpool in the early 1960s. The club became synonymous with Merseybeat and regularly played host to the Beatles in their early years. Today the Cavern is a thriving live music destination and one of Liverpool’s top tourist attractions. It encompasses three stages across two venues – the Cavern Club and the Cavern Pub. With up to 800,000 visitors a year and many different key holders the security and access control of offices and backstage areas are of vital importance. The ABUS Vitesse cylinders will provide years of trouble-free secure operation, even in high-traffic parts of the Cavern. ABUS is a global manufacturer of high-quality, innovative security, access & safety solutions with a nearly one-hundredyear history of innovation. ABUS UK is part of a worldwide group of companies that supply and distributes a huge range of both electronic and mechanical security products and systems for home, mobile security, and commercial security. www.abus.com/uk
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