JayS

Hello,

I,m new to all of this and would like your expertise please? I,ve just found an old industrial Singer table and was hoping someone would be able to assist me in identifying its age. It’s a little project I wanted to start as I recall my grandmother using her mother’s machine when I was a child. I saw this and thought I could fix it and bring it back to life.

Details I can see include:

- Great Britain SIMANCO with each piece of the frame given a serial number from 94779, 94780 and 94781.
- Seems it’s been modified at some stage with the original wheel removed and another attached to the table top.
- Table top has a measuring tap attached to the front saying made in England also

Thank you for reading and hopefully I’ll hear from some of you regarding this table and maybe some history.

leonf

Can't see enough, but it it is a treadle base, it it missing a pittman arm. not a biggee.. If the wheel on top is aobut 3" in diameter it may be a bobbin winder.

JayS

Thankyou for the detail mentioned. I’ll send you a better pic, having issues uploading the pictures.

bkay

Usually, the photos are a problem because they are too big. If you'll make them 96 dpi, they will load easily.
bkay

JayS

Ok here goes, some decent photos. Seems it’s been converted to a stop start kind of set up?

OurWorkbench

I know that there was a motor made to convert a treadle to use the pedal with a motor, but it was attached differently. It looks like yours has belt grove in the space where the motor would have gone as seen in http://www.sil.si.edu/DigitalCollect.../sil10-162.pdf
Perhaps for a different kind of motor.

Janey - Neat people never make the exciting discoveries I do.

leonf

hmm Industrials often have a clutch between the motor and the head. the motor runs continuously and you blip the clutch to stitch and move fabric. In Janey's pic you can also see a rod to the presser foot lift. MIght yours have both on the same rocking joint? Disregard the comment about the bovin winder.

JayS

i can see where the original wheel must have been attached to the base frame. Here’s a better pic of the wheels of the structure beneath the table and the cane toon to the peddle. Also the holes where some machine was attached to the table.