The Unbelievable Safe Combine of 1899 That Almost Happened

[Doug MacQueen]

This is how I understand it. There is the first merger of the Herring-Hall-Marvin combine in 1892. It is true, the second and larger Diebold, Mosler, etc. merger of 1893, which never happened, was initially in reaction to the first but as time went on, it no longer would be competing with the H-H-M combine but instead absorb it, due to the troubles H-H-M was having in the latter 1890's.

[Dean Nickel]

You are right of course. I bet it would have been fun to be a fly on the walls of those meetings. Even the news stories bring out the conflict in the owners of these companies.