It's nothing to do with Dungannon, but I remember reading in the Didsbury (one-time MacKenzie course) 75th anniversary book that they only started to take keys out of cars and lock them when they were made to during the war - not because of potential theft, but because of possible invasion. I can remember my relations in County Down always leaving their cars unlocked and with the keys in the ignition during the 1950s - in the street, or in their yard (which was always open). They had a small garage business. They didn't even lock their petrol pumps outside business hours.