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National Sewing Machine Company was a Belvidere, Illinois-based manufacturer founded in the late 19th century, [1] operating until 1957. The company manufactured sewing machines, washing machines, bicycles, an automobile, home workshop machinery, and cast-iron toys and novelties (under the Vindex Toy Company label).
Moldacot Pocket Sewing Machine Company – A short-lived company that made a portable sewing machine between 1885 and 1887 [15] National Sewing Machine Company – former Belvidere, Illinois-based manufacturer founded in the late 19th century, it manufactured sewing machines and other products. New Home, purchased by Janome in 1960 [16] and ...
A product of the National Sewing Machine Company of Belvidere, Illinois, it was a light, two-seater runabout with left-hand drive or two-row tonneau. The 1904 Eldredge Runabout was a runabout model. It could seat two passengers and sold for US$750. The horizontal-mounted flat-twin engine, situated at the center of the car, produced 8 hp (6.0 kW ...
Barnabas Eldredge (died 1911), American founder of the Eldridge Sewing Machine Company and National Sewing Machine Company; Brett Eldredge (born 1986), American country musician; Charles Eldredge (disambiguation), several people; George Eldredge (1898–1977), American actor; H. Wentworth Eldredge (1909–1991), American sociologist and WWII spy
Jack, Andrew B. "The channels of distribution for an innovation: The sewing-machine industry in America, 1860–1865". Explorations in Economic History 9.3 (1957): 113. Weber, Nicholas Fox. The Clarks of Cooperstown: Their Singer Sewing Machine Fortune, Their Great and Influential Art Collections, Their Forty-year Feud (Alfred A. Knopf, 2007).
Frister & Rossmann was founded in 1864 in Berlin by Gustav Rossmann and Robert Frister. [2] [3]The UK importer was sued by the Singer company in 1883. [4]The company became Germany's largest sewing machine manufacturer, until 1902.
By 1907, the Ames foundries had been purchased by Chicopee's A.G. Spalding Company. [12] In 1848, E. Remington and Sons purchased gun-making machinery from the company and took over a contract for Jenks breechloading percussion carbines for the U.S. Navy. National Sewing Machine Company purchased sewing machine dies and equipment from Ames.
By 1859, the company had the most sewing machine sales in the United States. [2] The company's capital stock was increased in July, 1859, to $400,000, and June 29, 1864, the company was granted a special charter by the Connecticut state government, and the capital stock was further increased to $1.000,000. [5]