Originally Posted by sewbizgirl
Wow, they were expensive. I know the 201s were $185 and that was as much money as a car or a couple month's labor back then. I think the installment plan was implemented for the 201s. They have a potted motor and are gear driven, rather than belt driven. The big gear is a worm cut gear (one gear fits into another-- very strong) so they eventually got too expensive for Singer to build any more and production had to stop. They are still wonderful machines today. I have two of them.
Actually Singer was one of the first companies to insititute an installment plan and it was back in the late 1800's, it is what put them on the map so to speak ahead of all their competition.