well, you all know my love of old machines... for a fantastic old machine with lots of stitches, find a Singer 401 :mrgreen:
Very few machines are actually made by the companies that started them... Singer is a perfect example - that name has been sold so many times, then company went bankrupt, then bought by conglomerate, etc etc, the only thing "Singer" about the machines is the name "Singer"...
I've been doing some research and this is what I came up with yesterday - that's been over 24 hours ago so there might have been some changes since then :roll: And this was just a short run through Google looking for info....
Pfaff, Viking, Singer and White - one company altho some Viking machines are still make in Sweden
Elna, Kenmore, New Home, Janome, one parent company and they also make some of the Bernettes
Bernina still makes/owns Bernina and make a pro machine Tacsew 950
Babylock and Brother
apparently all sergers are from the same place in Japan and just made cosmetically different for each company