The Wheeler and Wilson #9 was one of the best treadles ever made. I learned to sew on one when I had three kids and all their clothes were sewn on that machine. I rue the day I had to have a new electric machine which turned out to be a piece of (c#@&) and let my husband take the machine out of the cabinet and throw it away, then used the machine itself for sewing leather sheaths for knives that he made. What I wouldn't give to have that back, intact.