Originally Posted by
amcatanzaro
I had someone tell me the other day that the patent for the 15 was taken/stolen/removed from Singer from the American gov't post war and handed out to the Japanese companies to make machines.
This was the first time I have heard it phrased like this from any source. Anyone know for sure?
Many American companies made money selling inexpensive high quality foreign made sewing machines so it makes sense for our government to encourage this business while helping to rebuild Japan and Germany. This eventually did away with American sewing machine manufacturing. Interesting stuff.
Jon