Found this online about Kenmore manufacturers:
Date: 6/25/09 6:50 PM
Sears source #s for sewing machines:
117=White (Also 2 models from Gritzner-Kayser in Germany that White imported for Sears.
120=New Process Gear Corporation. (A division of Chrysler when these were made in the 1950s.
148=Soryu in Japan
158=Maruzen in Japan (later Jaguar)
385=Janome