Originally Posted by vintagemotif
Originally Posted by dunster
Originally Posted by vintagemotif
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I thought so. Do you know if that White that I posted is the White FW. Don't see too many of those posted either. Does anyone own a White FW?
I read the article you referenced. The wording sounds like a non-English speaker, maybe an article written for a class, but not something that was well researched.
Last sentence in the article: "And if the company can survive Depression and two world wars, it's impossible that they couldn't get through intense competition now."
Huh? White was acquired by Electrolux in 1986. Bottom line is that I don't think the information is accurate. I think the "researcher" got mixed up with the White Company and white featherweights made by Singer, but I could be wrong.
I would not speculate if this person is non-English or not, or if this piece is equivalent to something that may be written for a class. This type of writing is now found in many of our periodicals today. But, I do think that the writer may have gotten confused with the machines. And that is why I'm asking for information. Did Singer take the White FW and improve it?
I have no doubt this was written by a non-English speaker (not that it matters, just an observation and speculation that this is a paper written by a non-English speaker to improve his English and the research is highly suspect). This is the type of sentence I'm referring to: "Most of all, the Featherweight antique White sewing machine was very lightweight-it only weighed less than 20 pounds. You wouldn't have any problem keeping it away even at the top of the stairs. " Actually almost every paragraph in the article has some strange-sounding phrase, often referring to White producing antique machines: "Meanwhile, when the twentieth century was basically new, the company opted to release another antique White sewing machine." So if the writer is still learning English, it would be easy to get confused with white (a color) featherweights, vs. machines made by White.
However - I did find some places where people refer to their White 77 as a featherweight, and here is an article on converting the 77 to treadle, with pictures that look like the machine in your ebay listing:
http://www.treadleon.net/whitesm/whi...ick77conv.html
Here are the pictures that refer to the 77 as a featherweight -
http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/...69279629Llmbrq
And here's an article that says the White 77 was designed to compete with the Singer 221 featherweight.
http://www.newenglandsimpleliving.co...itemodel77.htm
So much stuff available on the internet, don't know how much of it is accurate, I should get off the computer and start sewing...