Diebold Cannonball

[Doug MacQueen]

Cannonball safes were made by quite a few companies and Diebold made their share. This is one I helped in opening with Arnie Foslien several years ago. As much as I like working on cannonballs it was a still a particularly nasty job. Major malfunction of the timelock. It was being used daily in a bank and was built into the vault wall. You can see the crew that removed it from the wall was not quite careful enough. This safe is a later version of the one pictured with the cracked body. It seems the earlier manganese versions were not tempered as well as the later ones when it came to resisting nitro attacks. Doug