Our manuals are available as a hardcopy, bound photocopy, or a digital download. We even stock sewing machine manuals for antique sewing machines and vintage treadle machines. In addition, we carry a vast collection of serger / overlocker replacement manuals and repair manuals. Thank you to Lyn Forsyth/David Stirling/Claire Sherwell of the Needlebar Group for information regarding this machine.Sewing Machine Instruction and Service ManualsĪt Sewing Parts Online, we pride ourselves in housing the largest selection of replacement sewing machine instruction manuals and service manuals available. The bobbin winder on this machine is slightly unusual with a wire "spoon" and "guard". Kays still exist and are a large Mail Order Catalogue Company based in Worcester, England. At the bottom of the Pillar it has ' Made in Germany' and beneath that, although the wording is virtually unreadable, 'Especially for Kay & Company Worcester'. The decals have all but gone but were originally gold with red pendants around the base. The Company developed more modern machines including a High Arm Family transverse shuttle machine branded the Erda and a vibrating shuttle machine known as the Frigga both of which were available in 1901. By 1878 the company was producing the Original Fidelitas, Original Badenia, Original Kolumbus and the Original Rhenania which was based on the Grover & Baker No.19. Production increased rapidly and 25,000 sewing machines were made in 1876. Manufactured by Junker & Ruh which was established in 1870 by Karl Junker and August Ruh in Karlsruhe, Baden. These machines were sometimes highly decorated with flowers and Mother of Pearl. German manufacturers extensively copied and also improved the Singer New Family machine, they were made with both cast and wooden bases the latter frequently having an inlaid ruler in the base. Unless you are really desperate to own one of these machines it is not worth buying a machine with missing or broken parts unless it is an uncommon example. On many of this type of machine slide-plates and other bright work was not plated and is often rusty but cleans up quite well. These cast base machines turn up quite regularly in Great Britain, the decals tend to have deteriorated until they are all but none existent, the japanning however survives well. These machines were often given British sounding names or labelled for specific importers or retailers so the same machine can be known by several different names!īeing cast based it is easy to think these machines were made earlier than infact they were, for example "The Elsa" was produced for over 35 years during which the design remained largely unchanged and the machine was still in production at the start of the First World War. Cast base machines seem to have been particularly popular with German manufacturers and most were produced in vast quantities for export.
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