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As some know and as mentioned in my profile I collect and restore old Singers sewing machines, so thought I would share a few pictures of just a few of them .. they all work as good as they day they left the Kilbowie factory in Clydebank Scotland.. and will go on for the next 50 or 100 years or more.. they are so well designed and built.
In my eyes they are beautiful machines, some say works of art, and deserve not only to be preserved but used as intended.. and if your looking to buy you can't buy better than an old Singer .. they just don't make them like this any more..
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At it's height the factory employed 14,000 people, had their own dock, railway siding, and even sourced the wood from their own forest..
Sadly it all came to an end, it was just too labour intensive and making huge losses.. eventually closed in the early 80s.. the end of an era in more ways than one.. it was all downhill after that..
The history of Singers is fascinating.. an interesting insight to Isaac Merritt Singer
http://www.sewalot.com/singer_history.htm
In my eyes they are beautiful machines, some say works of art, and deserve not only to be preserved but used as intended.. and if your looking to buy you can't buy better than an old Singer .. they just don't make them like this any more..
Link Removed
At it's height the factory employed 14,000 people, had their own dock, railway siding, and even sourced the wood from their own forest..
Sadly it all came to an end, it was just too labour intensive and making huge losses.. eventually closed in the early 80s.. the end of an era in more ways than one.. it was all downhill after that..
The history of Singers is fascinating.. an interesting insight to Isaac Merritt Singer
http://www.sewalot.com/singer_history.htm