J Miller

If you have high speed internet, get the popcorn and watch this video.
You'll be amazed at how our favorite machines were made back in the mid 1930s.
You can full screen the video so your eyes don't cramp too.

{ http://ssa.nls.uk/film/1592 }


I thoroughly enjoyed this.

Joe

Caroline94535

Amazing.

Those people, men and women, old and young worked so incredibly hard.

I've not finished watching the film yet and have already made an enquiry to purchase a DVD copy.

Thank you for posting this link.

Stitchnripper

Thanks Joe - I watched it all. Those machines are sturdy. No surprise we are still using and enjoying them. Women in the workforce. Primitive yet sophisticated manufacturing process. Not hard to believe a needle could be bent or have a burr. I wish I could see a brand spanking new machine from then. Only if someone got it and never opened the box. Very enjoyable.

mawluv

OMG! Joe, how in the world did you find this? I can't tell you how much I enjoyed this!!! Thanks so much!!

KenmoreGal2

Thanks for posting this. It was super, I also watched it all. I'm amazed at how much hands on attention each machine (and needle!) got. I cringed when they were put in the wood crates and the crates were tipped over to nail them shut. I guess they sure knew how to pack a machine!

wilburness

WOW WOW WOW is all I can say! thank you for posting. watched it all and will do again to make sure I didn't miss anything. such labor intensive made machines. and the needles... I kept wondering about all the noise produced in the making. no machine guards and the belts to run the manufacturing machines are open. and how little they were paid for their work. just amazing. again, thank you for posting Joe.

Karen

Sandra in Minnesota

Thanks for posting this. My goodness, it must have been hot in the summertime in those foundries! It would be interesting to see the company today, with the plastic parts all being farmed out to foreign countries.

Quincunx

Better internet in the new place then? Excellent!

manicmike

The 222K, 201K23 and 320K were designed and made only in that factory. Makes me sad that it was an early victim of globalisation.

It was closed in 1980 and demolished in 1998.

SunlitenSmiles

Wow, thanks.....