I'm guessing as I couldn't find a similar Viking or Meister manual. The dial on the right with the lever is the stitch length knob. I think the lever on the outside of that knob would be for reverse. The knob on the arm are for various stitches. It probably has two and maybe three knobs that can be turned. Singer 401 has two knobs in one (have to pull or push depending on which one you want to turn). The Pfaff 1222 has a dual knob also. It may be more like your Meister. There is a possibility that there is some additional information on the underside or back of the machine. It may have a model number and information about the motor. I found
https://i.servimg.com/u/f16/19/68/90/31/img_4111.jpg that looks like your knob. I think the center moves the red square thing around (ETA- just looked again and probably the
outside moves the red box). I believe A B C D are for the buttonhole. E is probably for regular ZZ. The other two are probably for the inner brown or white stitches. I think the white ring of stitches are for stretch type stitches that go forward and back. The brown ring stitches are forward motion without any backward stitching.
From my understanding Meister was bought out by Viking in about 1980. And probably has plastic gears that quite probably are cracked. I forget to get the link that Bill Holman spoke of the Meister/Viking connection.
The image I linked to above was from a French VSM forum, I think. But it appears that the person posting had some other issues with said machine based on some of the other pictures in the thread.
http://lamachineacoudre.forumactif.o...r-multimatic-2
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