Originally Posted by Miz Johnny
There are gaps here and there throughout the dating, not just the 9W. Records get lost for lots of reasons.
Yes, Miz Johnny I realize there are gaps, but no where on the Singer site do they even mention the Singer 9W, Wheeler & Wilson type machines? I could not even find it when I looked up how to determine the model of a machine. At least not that I could find. Doing some more research I have discovered that Singer actually used the Wheeler & Wilson serial numbers even when they started actually making the Singer 9W, which is a Wheeler & Wilson, but with the name of Singer on the machine.
Anyway, history intrigues me. I sent a message to Singer asking why there is no mention of the 9W. If you look at history, until Nathaniel Wheeler died around the end of the century and his widow sold the Wheeler & Wilson plant to Singer in 1905, Wheeler & Wilson was the largest manufacturer of sewing machines in the mid to late 1800's.
All the information if so fun to find for me -- love my treadles and love history!
Nancy