One very serious Remington collector who I know is of the strong opinion that Remington left the double business to concentrate on the repeater boom taking place. His thought was that they had a limited amount of room and could not afford to expand the plant to make both. They elected to go into the repeaters instead of staying with the doubles. From the point of history they were right to do so. One by one every maker left the double market, went under or both.
There were several fianacail depressions or panics during the late 1890 to 1910 period. Cheap imported doubles were taking the bottom market, several makers like Syracuse Arms and Lefever were strugging. "Fox" in one of the several different companies were in the same period. It was a tight market with no real upside.
