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Winselmann sewing machines SUPERBA I This sewing machine was manufactured by Winselmann in the early 1900's; it was made for and exported by J. Silberberg & Co. For retail in the UK. Singer has recently pulled some of their dating and identification information from their website. Here you can look up your serial number and find out when your Singer Sewing Machine was made as well as what model you have. No Letter Prefix. AA Series Serial Numbers. AB Series Serial Numbers. AC Series Serial Numbers. AD Series Serial Numbers.
Singer 306 Bobbin Installation
Singer 306W bobbin installation is a bit of a chore. While many machines offer a slide plate providing bobbin access, this machine does not. To access the bobbin, the machine is tilted back as shown above. There is a latch on the right-hand side which supports the machine in this position. For someone with fat fingers, this method may be preferred to trying to install a bobbin and bobbin case beneath a slide plate.
The 306W uses a vertical bobbin which many quilters claim makes a finer stitch--especially free-arm quilting--since bobbin thread doesn't have to make a 90-degree turn before reaching fabric. It spools in a relatively straight line up to the work area.
You MUST--repeat MUST--use a Singer 206X13 needle. If any other needle could be used in this machine, Singer would have figured out how to do it years ago. Some of these machines have been 'retimed' to use other needles but that proves unsatisfactory when doing anything but straight stitch.
It will accommodate twin needle sewing using a 306x1 needle. Good luck in finding one.
The production of sewing machines by Gustav Winselmann started in 1892 in the town of Altenberg and continued until there until the Second World War.
The roots of the business can be traced back to the Clemens Muller Co. where Leopold Oskar Dietrich, Hermann K�hler and Gustav Winselmann all worked. They left Clemens Muller in 1871 to found their own workshop for the manufacture of sewing machines in the Meushchee brush factory under the name Dietrich & Co.
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Their first model was produced a few months later under the name ‘Allemannia’ and by the end of the first year, approx. 300 had been made.
After some disagreements between the partners, Dietrich resigned in 1873 and the company was renamed 'Kohler and Winselmann'. In 1877 the factory was moved to a new location is Kotteritzerstrasse (now Kathe-Kollwitz-Strasse), Altenberg.
In 1891, Gustav Winselmann also left to start his own factory, known as ‘Gustav Winselmann Gmbh.‘ The factory was located in Zwickauer Strasse, Altenberg in what had previously been a hat factory. It is said that by 1913 Winselmann had produced one million sewing machines of various types. The factory underwent several major expansions, until by 1927 230+ workers were employed. After the Second World War, the company did not restart manufacture.
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Many of the Winselmann models were known by the name ‘Titan’.
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Kohler continued the manufacturing of sewing machines as Hermann Kohler AG employing around 800 workers by 1927.
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After leaving the original partnership, LO Dietrich went on to found the Vesta Sewing Machine Works in 1875. By 1927 this sucessful business employed over 1250 workers. At the end of the Second World War Altenberg was in East Germany and the company was nationalized. After 1947 when production was slowly restarted, it was known as VEB Nahmaschinenwerke Altenburg.