Macybaby

I think your service guy is being rather closed minded. And I don't think many of the machines that don't say "singer" were made by Singer in the 60's. Singer was not one of the companies that made machines for other back then. And by the 60's, so much was being outsourced that Singer may not have been making their own machines either.

As to needle length, before the advent of Japanese made machines, domestic machine used a wide variety of needle lengths. At the time Singer used what several of the foreign companies used, but most of the other US manufacturers used something different. The Japanese started out making machines that followed the Singer 15 design, and they used the same needle that Singer used - and then it became common and most people don't know that there once was a wide variety in needle lengths.

I have several Boye needle cases, and set out to collect an example of a machine for each needle length and each shuttle they sold. I think there were around 12 different needles. Some are quite close in style, and some very different.

Lee in Richmond

I just got the machine back a few minutes ago, and am going to go up and play with it. The man in the little shop, selling vacuums and servicing sewing machines, has 3 machines to sell in his shop, all oldies, and one of them is my exact model and has ALL that came with it in the 60's, he thinks. The many feet looked completely unused. He let me borrow the manual long enough to copy many pages on my printer -- I am a happy camper!!!

leonf

huzzah for you

bakermom

Years ago my mom had a Wards machine-the needles were a slightly different length. Just enough that you had to buy Wards brand needles. It was a nice enough machine but the needle size was a pain-you had to go to Wards to get them.

ppquilter

Are you still looking for a manual? I have a free pdf of the manual from FB Vintage sewing machine spot??

Electric

Do you still have the manual? I just bought this machine and am looking for a manual.

Heresolong

Needle length: He's probably refering to the fact that 15x1 was pretty much adopted as the "standard" size needle quite some time ago. There have been many, many different sizes and types of needles over the years.

AFAIK Singer never made a Montgomery Ward sewing machine. Maybe he meant that Singer was the originator of the 15x1 needle size, but lots of companies made them, even back then.

Technically the work is under copyright but if Ward's doesn't make it available I'd do what I had to do to use my machine.

Do you have JA/JC numbers off the bottom of the machine? We could probably tell you who made it from that. It is probably Happy.