Originally Posted by BoJangles
Originally Posted by Lostn51
It was an industrial machine mainly used in clothing manufacture and was reported to sew over 4000 stitches a minute! It was mostly used in seam powered factories where you had a central power source and they had belt going from the central shaft to the machines.
Here is an example of what the factory may have looked like....
Billy
Geeeze, Billy I still don't see why the machine had a wheel on each end? In case some of the worker's were left handed?
Nancy
I dont know why they have them at each end unless you worked from both sides of the machine.
Billy