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I adopted an orphan today and am not finding much info on
it. Even the Singer website dating doesn't show a 15B. The serial
number EJ761025 comes up as a 15K 15000 in 1954 restyled for Monna
(whatever, it doesn't finish)...
www.singerco.com/pdf/SINGER_EJ_nos.pdf
I have not seen one like this, it seems to be lighter (aluminum?)Under
the badge it shows '15B' and on top it says Singer Manufacturing
Company... Fabrication Francaise. Does anyone know about this or where
else I can investigate?
Thanks in advance.
This is a Singer Sewing Machine which I have been given to try from my good friend Catherine...I think it's about 100 years old.
I have been wanting to try sewing for a while but haven't done any for years. Also last time I used an electric one I found that I just couldn't control the pedal as well as I used to.
I tried this one last night and it was amazing! Lovely and smooth, easy to use and great stitches!
Singer Roadster
Singer Nine 4AD Sports. The Singer Company continued the Nine Sports with the launch of the 4A in 1950 and in 1951 the 4AD with 1497cc engine
All-British Field Meet
VanDusen Botanical Garden
Vancouver British Columbia Canada.
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My new toy for sewing thick leather stuff.. it´s an old Singer Class 29 Sewing machine and it works really well just by testing it a few stitches.. Looking forward to do some real work with it! I´m still looking for a model from Adler which looks pretty much the same, but for now this is good enough! :-) I guess it´ll be awesome to sew motorcycle seats with.. The foot can also turn 360 degrees so it´s very flexible..
Ooit via gahetna.nl gevonden, maar de opgeslagen links werken niet meer... ik moet gaan zoeken of deze ook op www.nationaalarchief.nl te vinden zijn
Today I visited the Imperial War Museum (especially floors 2 and 3.) John Singer Sargent's late masterpiece Gassed finished March 1919 . It depicts the aftermath of a mustard gas attack during the First World War, with a line of wounded soldiers walking towards a dressing station. Sargent was commissioned by the British War Memorials Committee to document the war and visited the Western Front in July 1918 spending time with the Guards Division near Arras. The painting is a harrowing scene depicting the ugliness of war and its victims, it references Pieter Bruegel the Elder's The Parable of the Blind leading the blind of 1568. If you are in London you should go and see this powerful work.
On a happier note I visited my friend Kate Wilson and her show "Total Rubbish." The paintings although depicting rubbish were very far from rubbish, but a powerful comment on what is often discarded or seen as waste. In some ways there is a sort of link with Sargent and the human detritus of war.
When we bought our home here in Bonnie Scotland many years ago there was one or two old pieces of furniture and the like left. The house was owned by two very elderly sisters who had both died (one died in the house) and the estate asked if we wanted to purchase any of these items for a small fee. My wife purchased, if I recall correctly, an old chair and some bits-and-bobs along with this "ancient" Singer sewing machine ~ the treadle style.
Today, this sits in one of our rooms (with the actual sewing machine, hidden within the original box/cover) and my wife always has fresh flowers and candles sitting on it. This particular model is very old and hopefully falls into today's challenge (I think) perfectly!
To add some "age" I did a little sketched processing.
Our Daily Challenge - YESTERDAY / YESTERYEAR
Singer's Role in WWII
Prior to Poster - Get a War Job!WWII, employment at the Elizabethport, N.J. Singer factory totaled 5,000. The 113 acre factory comprised 48 buildings with a combined floor area of over 2.6 million square feet. The self-sufficient plant included a foundry, wire drawing mill, hardening and tempering facilities, as well as machining and press operations. The factory produced its own nuts, bolts, springs and pins, tools, gauges and fixtures and contained a photographic and printing plant as well as metallurgical and chemical laboratories for the testing materials.
Increased demands for family sewing machines, repair parts and needles began to be felt in late 1939. The Singer factory in Scotland was engaged in the war effort and shipping throughout Europe was limited which resulted in Singer sales outlets normally supplied from Scotland turning to Elizabethport for family sewing machines and machine parts. By 1940, France had fallen and England was on the verge of collapse. Demand on Elizabethport was further increased by sales outlets attempting to build stock in anticipation of the United States becoming involved in the war. Through 1941 Elizabethport met the demands for family sewing machines, parts, and needles and increased their volume of war work and industrial sewing machine production.
During this period the use of materials such as copper, iron, steel, and aluminum became critical and production of civilian goods such as family sewing machines was completely stopped by order of the War Production Board. The order stopping family sewing machine production—Limitation Order L-98—became effective June 15, 1942. Between that time and July 1945 production of family sewing machines at Elizabethport was completely stopped and only limited production of repair parts and needles was allowed by War Production Board regulations. The halt of the supply of family sewing machines to sales outlets for a period of over three years presented a critical problem to the sales organizations. In addition to the stoppage of family sewing machine production, the board ordered the majority of existing stock of completed family sewing machines frozen and earmarked for use by government agencies. Releases of frozen stock were authorized throughout the war, most to South American countries in promotion of the National Good Neighbor Policy.
Elizabethport personnel who were released from working on family sewing machines due to Limitation Order L-98 were absorbed into the factory's war production effort. Singer's American factories were responsible for the development and production of a variety of items for the war effort including:
* .45 caliber automatic pistols
* M5 Director equipment to control the fire of 37mm and 40mm anti-aircraft guns
* B-29 gunfire control computers
* Hydraulic servo assemblies
* Subassemblies for the M7 Director 90mm anti-aircraft gun
* Gun turret castings for the B-29 bomber
* Castings for aircraft engine piston rings
* Gun sights for the Mark XV 3-inch, 5-inch, and 40mm anti-aircraft guns on naval ships
* Caliber .30 M1 carbine receiver
* Director M5 parts
* Parts for the Sperry Directional Gyro and Artificial Horizon instruments
* Housings and covers for the A3 Automatic Pilot
* Parts for the T-1 bomb sight
* Ammunition boxes
* Time and percussion fuses
* Variable pitch wooden propeller blades
* Special types of motors for fire control and other ordnance equipment
As a way to acknowledge the importance of the industrial workers to the war effort, the Army-Navy Production Award "E" Pennant was created. Awarded to a plant rather than a company, it consisted of a flag to be flown over the plant and a lapel pin for every employee within the plant. In NovemberNavy 'E' Award Poster 1942 Singer's Elizabethport, New Jersey plant received the Army-Navy "E" Pennant in recognition of its outstanding production of needed war material. In July 1945, Elizabethport Works was cited for the fifth time, and a fourth star was added to the pennant.
Because of its foundry, tool room, and press and screw machinery, Elizabethport was also able to provide assistance to other manufacturers engaged in the war effort:
* Thread milling cutters and motor castings for the Lawrence Aeronautical Corporation
* Rumbling barrel castings were made for Springfield Armory
* Ball reamers to International Business Machine Company
* Surgical instrument forgings were supplied to Brandenburg Instrument Company
* Cast iron bars were made for American Gas Accumulator
* Thread chasers were supplied to Reliable Machine Screw Company.
* Prisms were ground for an optical manufacturer and shafts were ground for Simmonds Aerocessories, Inc.
* Parts were oxidized for Taller and Cooper Company, Jersey City
* Eight-inch projectiles were sand blasted for Crucible Steel
* Stator and rotor plates were heat treated for Allen D. Cardwell
* Dental chair castings were produced for S. S. White
* Taper pins and spring pins were made in large quantities for Babcock Printing Press, Eastman Kodak, General Electric, Western Electric, Excello Corporation, Submarine Signal Company and Worth Engineering
* Thread milling hobs were made for American Type Founders, National Rubber machinery and Webendorfer - all working on 40 mm and 75 mm guns - for *Carl M. Norden, working on bomb sights; for Eisman Magneto Corporation and National Pneumatic, working on gun tubes and shells; also Farand Optical Company, Guilbert and Barker Company, National Broach and Machine Company, Diehl Manufacturing Company, Williams Oil-O-Matic, Miller Printing Machinery and the Dictaphone Corporation, working on a variety of war jobs
* Hobs and ground thread taps were produced for Textile Machinery Company, Sperry Instrument Company, Delco Division of General Motors, Teletype Corporation, Ford Motor Company and Maxon, Inc.
* The source Singer in World War II - 1939 to 1945, published in 1946 by Singer Manufacturing Company, lists the name as Carl M. Norden; the correct name is Carl L. Norden, founder of Carl L. Norden, Inc., Manhattan, New York.
Singer Badge
SINGER SET
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Established by Goerge Singer in Coventry to manufacture bicycles in 1875. Motorised three wheel vehicles followed in 1901 then by Motorcycles. By 1911 their range included Motorcycles of 299cc and 535cc. Entering racing Singer fielded bikes in the 1914 senior TT races on the Isle of Man and in 1913 offered a ladies model. In 1912 George Stanley broke the Brooklands One Hour Record becoming the first 350cc motorcycle to cover 60 miles in one hour.Singer ceased the production of Motorcycles at the outbreak of WW1.
Car production had begun in 1905, with the manufacture of Lea Francis licensed cars. Singer designed cars followed in 1906 with bought in Aster engines. the first big seller was the 1911 100cc Singer ten with their own engines. The company remained independant car producers until 1956 when they were absorbed
Shot at Brooklands Bus Museum New Years Day meeting 01:01:2013 REF 90-329
My picture for the Daily Create on May 12, 2012. mobile.twitter.com/DS106TDC/status/201311047133577217
The singer in the new group Sverigefinnarna. So new that you can't even find them if you Google them.
Robert Singer speaking at the 2013 San Diego Comic Con International, for "Supernatural", at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California.
Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used elsewhere.
today i've got an anticipaed easter egg surprise!!!
The italian singer Anna Oxa has publish some of my mosaics in her official facebook page with a greetings message for me!!!
For those of you that don't know Anna Oxa read this.
And here the link to her page on facebook
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