Brink's O'Grady and Waverly Brown, and a Brink's security guard, Pete Paige, dead. Paige's partner, Joe Trombino, was severely wounded in the gun battle but survived. He later died in the World Trade Center during the September 11 attacks in 2001. On November 26, 1983, there was an armed robbery at a warehouse near London's Heathrow Airport, operated by Brink's-Mat, a former joint venture between Brink's and the London-based company MAT Transport, which specialized in the transportation of valuable goods. Three tonnes of gold bullion (worth £26 million) was stolen. Most of the gold has never been recovered. $7.4 million was
Gold dust robbery Gold dust robbery The Gold dust robbery took place 25th March 1839 in London at the Dublin Steam Packet Company. According to the "New Newgate Calendar", pp. 480ff, "The extraordinary robbery to which these persons were parties involved circumstances probably more singular than any other which ever came before a court of justice". Lewin Caspar, a clerk at the Dublin Steam Packet Company at 16 John Street Crutchfriars (now Crosswall street), found out that of gold dust, weighing 102 lbs. 10oz. 11 dwts., (about 46.5 kilos), 4,600 pounds sterling worth of gold dust had been landed at Falmouth from Brazil