Originally Posted by
Cari-in-Oly
Yes, these machines are one of the reasons Jolson lost his Necchi distributorship. It's not a Necchi at all, not even a Japanese made Necchi (those came later) it's a Japanese machine he put that badge on. Not sayin' it's not a good machine, just sayin' it aint what it says it is.
Cari
I think you are confusing Nelco with Alco. I'm not sure how Allyn International got away with importing machines and having both Necchi and Alco on the label. I have an Alco 1300SU that I bought new in 1972. It has the same label, but it also has an Alco badge on it.
I just ran across Jolson's obit (2009) and says that Nelco sold under private labels to
Penney's and Wal-mart
Some other links
http://sewing-machines.blogspot.com/...i-or-alco.html where an employee of Allyn explains Alco and Necchi correlation - sort of
Has anyone ever heard of Necchi?????? post #68 tells about the demise of Jolson being distributor for Necchi and Elna.
http://www.geocities.ws/lamx/History.html another for above
Janey - Neat people never make the exciting discoveries I do.