The Singer Automatic Swing-Needle Machine Model 306 is what is depicted from the instruction manual. Made for the Singer Manufacturing Company. Here is a webpage I just found about looking up the year (birthday) of your singer.
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~sherlyn/singer.html
I can dig up the part number...I think it is actually the 306W Model from how the machine is marked.
The info I collected off of the machine motor itself says:
Singer Sewing Motor
CAT. NO. BA 3-8
S.S. AU 52-33-1
The Singer MFG Co.
Elizabethport, NJ
SIMANCO.
110-120 Volts
0.53 AMP.
25-75 Cycles
A.C. & D.C.
Made in USA
I'm not seeing an actual marked serial number per say nor is there one in the book... (instruction manual) I did just look through the stuff in the drawers of the sewing machine desk and found a pattern sent in the mail to an additional address in El Segundo, CA (not mentioned by the previous owner/inheritee of the machine before I bought it) that was postmarked May 4, 1962. There are dress patterns in there as well published as far back as 1950. There are lots of little odds and ends, such as a very old pack of needles purchased from safeway with gold foil inside the packaging and needles in place with safeway's older (but similar) logo. There is motor oil for the machine as well from probably the 1960s.
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~sherlyn/singer.html
I can dig up the part number...I think it is actually the 306W Model from how the machine is marked.
The info I collected off of the machine motor itself says:
Singer Sewing Motor
CAT. NO. BA 3-8
S.S. AU 52-33-1
The Singer MFG Co.
Elizabethport, NJ
SIMANCO.
110-120 Volts
0.53 AMP.
25-75 Cycles
A.C. & D.C.
Made in USA
I'm not seeing an actual marked serial number per say nor is there one in the book... (instruction manual) I did just look through the stuff in the drawers of the sewing machine desk and found a pattern sent in the mail to an additional address in El Segundo, CA (not mentioned by the previous owner/inheritee of the machine before I bought it) that was postmarked May 4, 1962. There are dress patterns in there as well published as far back as 1950. There are lots of little odds and ends, such as a very old pack of needles purchased from safeway with gold foil inside the packaging and needles in place with safeway's older (but similar) logo. There is motor oil for the machine as well from probably the 1960s.
Ok I have decided to approach the topic by adding more of a social history of the sewing machine. I will focus on how the sewing machine made it easier to produce garments and with competition from cheaper markets, the activity moved out of the home and into the workforce. What that ment for the 'unskilled woman worker'. please give me any feedback
ReplyDeletemaybe someone can focus on the commercialism of household items during the period of this sewing machine. just an idea.
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