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Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 56, 3 September 1910, Page 12
Four years secret study and twelve months work by night and day has brought success to an inventive and persevering young Lancashire cloth looker, Lindon William King, of Colne. He submitted to the Great Central Railway Company the results of his work-a safety lock for railway carriages. The lock will make such mysteries as that of Merstham Tunnel unlikely, and the frequent accidents by falling out through carriage doors impossible. The railway directors think so well of the invention that they have paid Mr. King £2,500 in cash for it, and have appointed him to a highly paid position in their service. Mr. King is only 26 years old. The romance of his invention is the tale of the success of a penniless orphan boy, who, thrown on his own resources at ten years old, kept himself by working in a mill, and used his evenings for study from youth to manhood. Mechanics and engineering were his hobbies, and he obtained against all disadvantages a practical working knowledge of these subjects. To this knowledge he applied his native ingenuity at home after his working day in the Great Hulme mills was over. And the reward has come.