Ron,
I am late to this discussion. I had a green 'Remington' that was almost identical to your Capri. Made in Japan, nice household machine. I don't see that it was copied from the Bell Messerschmidt. It is so much like many other Japanese class 15 machines. This picture of it is in my universal treadle.
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Cathy