Originally Posted by
leonf
Kenmore liked to use the same number for different machines. As I understand it the 117 can be the football machine, the one with harsh angles like a stealth fighter and the Gritzner dashboard machine. Do the footballs and the fighter have the same running gear? Did the fighter some in aluminum also? Some seem much lighter.
Sorry can't help. I find it kind of interesting that the Gritzner 117 were from 1956 & 1958 whereas the numbers fall between 117.831 & 117.85, which were produced in 1938. I know there are some numbers that were not in numerical order in
http://www.searsarchives.com/history.../sewing_id.pdf but do not remember which ones.
Also there is the thread
http://www.quiltingboard.com/vintage...n-t259833.html that talks about the "source code" used by Sears. Another informative page about Kenmore machines is
http://steelsewing.blogspot.com/2018...-machines.html
Janey - Neat people never make the exciting discoveries I do.