joobee

Any info on this machine....

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any machine you see with a bobbin cover plate , like that has, it's made by national

joobee

Thanks for the info. I wondered who manufactured it. I guess they branded many different machines.

Macybaby

I've read that National used over 600 different Badge names, though one site said it was closer to 1,000

Quincunx

Are the smaller balance wheels something that also points to National as the maker? I have not looked at enough Nationals and Domestics yet to be able to tell.

jlhmnj

Any vendor could get name of choice with purchase of 5 machines through Davis (Top Line). Good chance National was similar. Ad is from Butler Bros. a mail order house similar to Sears c. 1920

Jon

Macybaby

That is more because it's Electric than anything else.

Rodney

Neat ad Jon. I could have sworn I just saw a Craig's List ad for a Honeymoon machine but I can't find it now.
Rodney

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That honeymoon has been in Portland within this month and another add was there last summer.

it's funny the info we get reading the net.. first thing I ever read on how many names national used was around 2/300 and there was a known list. then more recently ( 2/3 yrs) I read the 600, so far haven't see the 1000+

The same fallows with how many you had to order to get your name on the arm. so far the 5 has only been on here ..I have to assume that would be true if they only did a simple design and only changed the name.

you'll see all machine got smaller handwheels when they went Electric, in nationals case they tiny wheels.. note that any machine you see using the tiny wheel is also a fiction wheel drive.

This was done to control the machines speed/torque think of this as the gear ratio

look at the size of the pulleys on the motor/hand wheel of a belt drive unit , then do the same on a fiction wheel drive machine remember the fiction wheel drives at the outside of the handwheel