An Elizabeth II Red Leather Cloth covered Despatch Box, the chamfered top stamped with the royal insignia and 'Royal Commission on Assizes and Quarter Sessions', *with the initials (G).A.W. , and having a brass swing carrying handle at the rear, the black leather cloth lined interior with raised sides and stabilising studs. The lock has four levers with two keys and a diamond keyhole escutcheon.
Weight 2.85 kg
Dimensions 41 x 30 x 12 cm
*From 1966 to 1969 a royal commission chaired by Richard Beeching, Baron Beeching, studied the feasibility of converting all the existing assizes and quarter sessions courts into a system of Crown Courts to meet the growing case loads across the nation, and the commission’s recommendations became the Courts Act of 1971.
