J Miller

I learned something new today.

My Minnesota B was made somewhere between 1904 and 1909. Probably left the Davis factory as a treadle and was sold by Sears.
Somewhere in it's long life it was converted to a motorized machine and put in a home made base.
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The motor is a Kenmore branded motor, that I knew, but I never paid attention to the model number placard on it. The model number is: 117-617, indicating it was made by White. OK that's fine I thought but never went any farther.
Today I was looking at my Kenmore model date list and came across a section for Kenmore Accessory motors.
Turns out this one was made in 1949.

So 30 some years after leaving the factory this old machine was converted to electric with a White made Kenmore accessory motor and mount. That's a purty cool piece of history there.

The chart I have is in the Sears site somewhere, I no longer have the URL.

Joe