Originally Posted by
sewhat540
My question is: All the sewing machines seen here are they all Singers or was Singer called something else before? I liked them all.
They are not all Singers. Singer is called Singer if it says so on the machine somewhere. There is a post just above on the previous page with a Pfaff - it is not a Singer. There are many many old sewing machines made by companies other than Singer. My mom said she had an old Singer treadle that sewed chain stitch - so far nobody has come up with a Singer treadle that did chain stitch. Some times people call an old black machine a Singer whether it says Singer or not. We think it might have been a Standard. I have one and she used it like she was born to it. She is 89 and still refers to an old black machine as a Singer. I can't seem to break her of it.