Cari, the machine in your photo is a Japanese 15 clone. But those dash board machines with the tension on front and end load class 15 bobbin and straight stitch only really are clones, just NOT 15 clones. There was a machine made in Germany maybe by Singer that they were patterned after and they are a clone of it and you are right they are NOT a 15 clone. I just can't find the post on VSS. When I do I'll link to it. BTW good machines. The famous pink ATLAS is also the same kind of dashboard clone. Mostly clones were straight stitch.
There are clones of the Singer 128 and Singer 66 as well. That is why the one with the tension on the end should be called a Japanese 15 or 15 clone or Japanese 15 clone. There may be other machines that were cloned. The 128 and 66 aren't as common. I have one of each so they are out there found in the wild.
Last edited by miriam; 09-01-2016 at 02:35 AM.