Old 08-21-2023, 05:42 AM
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Heresolong
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Default Nicholls' Ntapryze Vibrating shuttle identification help

I'm having trouble figuring out who made this machine. It is a Nicholls' Enterprise (stylized on the machine itself as Ntapryze) but the manual says Enterprise. It came from Rochdale, just outside Manchester, and Nicholls was located in Market Hall, Rochdale according to the cover of the manual that came with it. I bought it from the granddaughter of the original owner. The granddaughter brought it to Canada in the 60s, with her when she emigrated from England. The granddaughter speculated that it was originally purchased new in the 1920s but had no documentation of that. The stitch length controller includes reverse (up), everything else is fairly self evident. It doesn't look like any of the Jones models and digging through fiddlebase and needlebar has resulted in nothing that looks like it. I'd appreciate any pointers.

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