I had some theories as to why that was that way (swappable faceplate like an Engima machine ring setting?) so I went to their website. The plot thickens:
According to the company the UK isn’t part of Europe, but instead belongs alongside Africa and the Middle East.
During the most recent glacial period, lowering of sea levels joined the British Isles once more to the continental mainland of Europe via Doggerland, until about 6500–6200 BCE.
Global warming over the past eight thousand years, I suppose.
Codelocks was started by Dorothea and Desmond Ryan, Codelocks’ chairman, out of their small fourth-floor apartment in central London in 1991 with the goal to satisfy the unmet need for a simple digital lock in the marketplace. After much research, they sourced a digital lock from Taiwan, and Codelocks was born with its first and still available lock: the mechanical CL250.
I had some theories as to why that was that way (swappable faceplate like an Engima machine ring setting?) so I went to their website. The plot thickens:
According to the company the UK isn’t part of Europe, but instead belongs alongside Africa and the Middle East.
Brexit baby.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weald–Artois_Anticline
Global warming over the past eight thousand years, I suppose.
Brexit was the UK leaving the European Union, not leaving the continent of Europe, right?
Separate website is easier for compliance, so they obey one set of rules than two (UK and EU).
It looks like the company was founded in London, then later set up international branches, FWIW.
https://www.codelocks.us/mediacoverage-llcelebrates30thjan22