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Harold D. Neff headed up the Vindex toy division between 1916-1951; Vindex was the name of a product line of National's washing machines. [2] National Sewing Machine Company and Farm Mechanics magazine partnered up, with the magazine offering Vindex toys as incentives to children to sell magazine subscriptions. [2]
Image credits: ivanoski-007 #15. My grandmothers singer sewing machine. It’s from 1923 and great condition. She was teenage seamstress in 1920s London house of Elliott style.
A rare Gem-brand sewing machine produced by the White Sewing Machine Company, circa 1887. A sewing machine is a machine used to stitch fabric and other materials together with thread. [1] Sewing machines were invented during the first Industrial Revolution to decrease the amount of manual sewing work performed in clothing companies. [2]
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
Wheeler and Wilson Number 3 Sewing Machine from about 1872. In 1852 Wilson patented his four-motion feed, which, as its name indicates, had four distinct motions: two vertical and two horizontal. [2] The machines' feed bar is first raised, then carried forward, then dropped, and finally gets drawn back by a spring to its original position. [2]
White Sewing Machines won numerous awards at international expositions, including the 1889 Universelle Exposition in Paris. White began supplying sewing machines to Sears Roebuck and Co in the 1920s. By the 1930s, all Sears sewing machines were Whites rebadged as Kenmore, Franklin, Minnesota, and other house brands. [1]
In 1868, Stephen French, working at the Gold Medal Sewing Machine Company in Orange, Massachusetts, patented an improved method of driving the vibrating arm. He used this mechanism in his designs of both the "Home Shuttle" sewing machine (from Johnson, Clark & Co., a related enterprise) and the Gold Medal "Home" sewing machine.