Unique Find - Singer German/Russian Post War
 

This machine is a Singer casting with a serial number from the Wittenberg Germany factory. After the Germans were defeated in WWII the Russians confiscated all of the machinery and contents of that factory as war reparations. PMZ (which this one is labeled for) continued making machines with the equipment it seized from Singer, however they were not stamping serial numbers. (This whole paragraph is from what I understand in digging as deep as I could)

Being this machine has been serialized by Singer and has the C prefix, it signifies it was manufactured in Germany.

I'm looking for more insight on this, the history is vague. I'm wondering if this machine was actually made by the Germans, sat in the factory for a bit and then was seized and decorated by the Russians?

Here's a blurp from the ISMACs site about the Wittenberg factory. http://ismacs.net/singer_sewing_mach...ttenberge.html

And here's some info from a Singer UK site https://www.singersewinginfo.co.uk/wittenberge

There's a lot of info out there about Wittenberg Singers.

I don't think your machine was serialized by Singer, so the Singer database wouldn't apply. I have a similar machine from the Podolsk Mechanical Factory. The serial number of my machine also starts with a C, the decals are different (though the badge is the same as yours), they look very much like the decals for the Singer 101. The factory was originally a Singer factory that was nationalized after the revolution. I determined that my machine was Russian made probably late 30s or early 40s.

The "им. Калинина"at the end of the your badge name puts it after 1923. If you copy/paste the Cyrillic Подольский механический завод (found at the top of the badge) into google it'll turn up a bunch more pictures of these machines. Bring your Google Translate though! 😉

I'll see if I can find links to some of the web pages I used to determine the providence of my machine. But the above Google search I mentioned will get you a lot of information.

Tammy

Thanks, Tammy. Good info

Welcome to the Board!

I can't tell you anything about your machine, except that I'd love to find something like that.

I want to welcome you to the board. Great find.

Thanks. Good to be here. Started collecting with my wife only a year ago and we’re really enjoying the hunt and bringing these back to life.

Thanks. I’m in PA and picked it up in NJ. They have another one but to ship would cost a fortune. I see you live a thousand miles away.

Thanks. If I find anything more I will of course share the info.

Thanks, those were my go to sites to get started on research.