Welcome. Sorry for your loss. What a job that needs to be done with his collection.
I am not familiar with industrial machines, but I do like to research. I'm not sure how much it will help. I'm wondering if this was the same one mentioned in a thread by Archaic Arcane -
Found some interesting things windows shopping today - Image heavy She is from Canada and has a website -
https://archaicarcane.com/ - but deals mainly with domestic machine and has not been on Quilting Board for more than a few years.
The QB link above has a link for the manual, but is no longer available there, but is at
https://web.archive.org/web/20190820...IPinstManuals/ The one that includes the 113W110 is "112W110_W113_W116_W120.pdf" Perhaps it is the same one that is available at
https://www.manualslib.com/manual/36...roduct-113W110 Even thought it tells of the 113W, it does not show the machine or tell of the use for that wheel.
Being a "W" machine means that it was made at the Bridgeport factory after Singer bought out Wheeler & Wilson. There is a catalog for the Bridgeport factory dated 1908 on the Smithsonian site, but does not have either the 112W or the 113W. As you found out there are not serial numbered dates for the "W" machines. There are a couple of other pages regarding the 113W110 at
https://www.sil.si.edu/DigitalCollec.../NMAHTEX/0149/ which is from 1919 and
https://www.sil.si.edu/DigitalCollec...0196/index.htm which is from 1936
I also found an article in a Rubber trade journal dated 1918 regarding the 113W at
https://books.google.com/books?id=Tq...achine&f=false
Nice cross-stitched featherweight behind the machine.
Janey - Neat people never make the exciting discoveries I do.
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