The business was established in 1963 as Hamber & Whiskin Engineering. In the early years the business was making missile parts for the Ministry of Defence, and precision stainless steel components for the petrochemical industry - the latter continues today.

The interest in safes began when the business began machining parts for the high security floor standing safes of Billericay based safe makers, John Tann.  A gap in the market was seen for the manufacture of an attack resistant and well-engineered range of wall safes, and the Hamber Wallmaster was designed and introduced into the market.  Its quality was proven with an equal first in the Which report in February 1981.  The largest in the range was referred to in the novel, ‘The Forth Protocol’, when the author Frederick Forsythe wrote about a “nice little Hamber Model D”.

We are a family business and operate under the internationally recognised Quality Assurance System ISO 9001:2000.  We have been manufacturing high quality safes for over forty years and are recognised throughout the insurance and security industries as a leading manufacturer and provider of safes both for commercial and domestic use.

In October 2005 Hamber Safes acquired Dreadnought Security, which included Secure Safes (Coventry) Ltd., both famous for supplying markets both at home and abroad with a wide range of safes, including the Super Dreadnought and the 'E' Series high security under floor safes.