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Vickers Sewing Machine

Contributed by Huw Daniel

Vickers Sewing Machine

Thanks to the excellent website of Alex I Askaroff (see link below) we now know that this elegant looking machine, which we knew to be c.WWI was actually produced from 1917 to 1939 in Crayford, London by the Vickers Company, famous for their WWI Machine Gun and later of course for several aircraft.
The Vickers De Luxe Model was produced in direct competition to the popular German Frister & Rossmann sewing machine and Vickers unabashed aim of destroying the German company`s market share was such a success that Frister & Rossmann survived in name only from the 1920s.
Aimed at the "home" market but portable by today`s standards ut certainly isn`t as it is easily the heaviest item in our archive though it is alos one of the most ornate we have.

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  • 1. At 21:47 on 21 June 2010, Huw Daniel wrote:

    Why was this rejected??

  • 2. At 11:21 on 16 August 2010, Huw Daniel wrote:

    Still no reason why this was rejected so that I can amend and re-submit?

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