Originally Posted by
Watson58
I really like the feed system of this mach as it does not have feed dogs. Can't figure out why other brands didn't use this system 100+ yrs ago like the Davis did. I now have two treadles going, this one and the White Rotary. Loving both of them.
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I don't believe the Vertical feeds were all that popular in their day, perhaps only in a few local regions. Davis SM Co. went over to Underfeed sewing machines, bicycles, castings and large machine tools when they moved from NY to OH in the early 1890's and the VF's only made up a small percentage of their business during this time. Singer and others made walking foot machines for the industrial market but not any domestic machines. Some inexpensive domestic walking foots were made but nothing of high quality like Davis.
Less than 200,000 NVF's were made from 1912-1924-under 20,000 per year. Davis made on average 100,000-125,000 sewing machines per year and slightly more bicycles per year during this time period.
Jon