Wm. Andrews c1871 - 1884 Sewing machine production ceased 1884126 Steelhouse Lane, Birmingham. 1871 145 Steelhouse Lane, also Bath Street, Birmingham. 1875 - 1879 3 Steelhouse Lane, Birmingham. 1880 - 1884 Victoria Road, Aston, Birmingham. 1884 Sold to Triumph 1902
Machines Made:
Wheeler & Wilson Type 1878 The Sanspareil 1878 Note: Cycles produced from1881
Daniel Bateman 1870
Factory: Paradise Street, Cropper Lane, Bradford.
Machine Made:Industrial Type
Bell Twin Reel Sewing Machine Syndicate Ltd 1910
Became:
Twin Bobbin Sewing Machine Co. Ltd Est 1913 -Bury, Lancashire.
Founders: F.J.T. Bell & H.C. Bell
Machine Made:Twin Bobbin
Bellow Machine Co. PreWW1
Factory: Leeds.
Became:
BMC Ltd 1925
1862 Advertisement
MadeSewing Machine attachments & benches
Bought by Pfaff 1977
Bradbury & Co.
see Sugden's, Bradbury & Frith
Thomas Bradford & Co. Est 1857 - 1901 +
Factory: Crescent Iron Works, , Salford, Manchester.
Retail: 63 Fleet Street, London by 1870 - 1874
140, 142, 143 High Holborn, London by 1875
Machines Made:Fleet Anchor - Chain Stitch 1872 Royal Anchor - Lock Stitch 1870 Note: Company were Laundry & Dairy Engineers & also made garden equipment.
Branston Two Reel Sewing Machine Co. Ltd Est 1889 - 1891
59 Holborn Viaduct, London.1891 -1895
Machines Made:Two reel lock & chain stitch machines 1891
Became:
New Branston Two Reel Sewing Machine Co. Ltd Est 1892 -189980A Coleman Street, London 1899 Breech Action Manufacturing Co. Pre 1872 - 1877 +
Factory: Regent Works, Herbert Road, Small Heath, Birmingham.
Founder: William Pringle
Machine Made:The Fearnought
Britannia Co. Est 1865 -
Became:
Britannia Sewing Machine Co. By 1868 1879
Became:
Britannia Manufacturing Co. 1879 - 1887 +Factory: Britannia Works, Magdalen Street, Colchester. Founders: Thomas M. Bear, Joseph Blomfield
Machines Made:Willcox & Gibbs Type Britannia (W & W type) 1867 1873 Tom Hood 1869 1873 Britannia Anchor c1870 The X L 1884 No.13 Machine 1877 No.14 Machine 1877
British Sewing Machine Co. 1858 - 1863
Became:
British Sewing Machine Co. Ltd Est 1863 - 1866
Factory: Britannia Works, 62 North Frederick Street, Glasgow. 1865 1866 Offices: 71 Oxford Street, London. 1865 1866
Patentee: Alexander Pilbeam, Glasgow 14 May 1863 No. 1212
Machines Made:Alexandra 1865 1866
Bromley Downey & Crossley 1875 - 1877
Factory: Old Church Street, Oldham 1875
Domestic Sewing Machine Works, Roscoe Street, Oldham 1877
Partners: John Bromley, Hugh Downey, James Crossley
Machines Made:Oldham Domestic 1875 Oldham Medium 1875 No.1 A 1875 No.2 B 1875
Busy Bee Company Pre 1873 -1880 plus
Factory: 5 New Street, Worcester. Founder: Alfred Michael Baylis
Machine Made:Busy Bee
1862 Advertisement
William Carver Est 1856 - 1879 +
Factory: Ducie Street Mill, 5 Todd Street, Manchester. (pre 1862)
Park Works, Park Street, Manchester 1862 -1879 +
Became:
Arthur Calver Pre 1886
Machines Made:British Machine (Lancashire) 1862 Thomas Types 1862 Wheeler & Wilson Type
William Campion 1862 - pre 1876
Factory: Aberdeen Street, off Carlton Road, Nottingham. Retail: A. Slater & Co. Wormwood Street, London.
Machines Made:Jenny Lind 1870 1871 (Design Registered 10th March 1870) Lady Progress
William Campion & Henry Johnson 1859 - Pre 1864
Factory: Hoyles' Factory, Woolpack Lane, Nottingham.
Patent: 2nd September 1861
Machines Made: Unknown but had links with Newton Wilson
Chadwick & Jones Est 1860 - 1863 Closed
Ashton-under-Lyne.
See William Jones
Arthur Clegg & Co. Pre 1870 - 1895+
Retail: 31 Finsbury Place, London. 1870 - 1880
78 Finsbury Pavement 1882 1883
48 Fore Street 1883 - 1891
1 Upper Charles Street 1895
Machine Made:Chainstitch 1877 Howe Principle 1877 Elastic 1877 The Clegg 1883 1884
Clerkenwell Engineers Est 1885 -1910 Closed
see Thomas Sewing Machine Co.
Cole, Maxfield & Co. to March 1868
Factory: Franklin Works, Park Road, Soho, Birmingham.
Founders: Richard Wood, Arthur Maxfield, Isaac Cole.
Machines Made: Unknown
See also: Franklin Sewing Machine Co., A. Maxfield & Co. , Charles Fowkes & Co.
Cookson Lockstitch Sewing Machine Co. Ltd Est 1887 – 1888 Closed
Factory: Lozells Road, Birmingham.
Founders: Frederick N. Cookson, Samuel Jenkins, & James F. Fairley
Became:
Cookson Patent Sewing Machine Co. Ltd Est 1888
Machine Made:The Cookson see Harpur & Mason.
Frederick N. Cookson 1891
158 Lozells Road
Coventry Sewing Machine Co. Ltd
and
Coventry Machinists Co. Ltd
seeEuropean Sewing Machine Co. Ltd
William Crow Pre 1872 -1876+
4a Great Hampton Street, Birmingham by 1872, 1873.
191a Great Hampton Row, Birmingham by 1873.
13 Pope Street, Birmingham by 1876.
Machines Made:Royal Mail 1873. Period 1873.
S. Davis & Co. 1872 - 1895
Period House, Borough, London. 8 Hackney Road, London.
Machines Made:Davis's Circular Feed Machine Period Lock Stitch Machine (Wheeler & Wilson type)
1890 Advertisement
Dorman Sewing Machine & Engineering Co. c1887 - 1890 +
Factory: Mayorhold, Northampton Proprietor: Thomas B. Dorman. Manager: Alfred Henry Dorman Exhibition Medals: London 1887 & 1888
Became:
The Dorman Sewing Machine & Engineering Co. Ltd by 1893
Became
Dorman Engineering Co. 1894 -1903 Closed
Machine Made:The Dorman 12000 produced by Oct 1894
Eclipse Machine Company Est Feb 1889 to c1919
see Shepherd Rothwell & Hough
European Sewing Machine Co. Ltd c1859 – 1867
Factory: King Street, Coventry. 1863 Retail: 61 Cheapside, London. 1862
Machine Made:European 1862 1874
Became:
Coventry Sewing Machine Co. Ltd 1867 - 1869
Became:
Coventry Machinists Co. Ltd est 10th May 1869 - 1892 +
Retail 15 -16 Holborn Viaduct London. Note: Sewing machine production ceased c 1884. The company produced Bicycles - The Pony, Club 1883 & Tricycles from 1869 - Imperial tricycle 1885, Cheylesmore tricycle
Charles Fowkes & Co. c1874
Factory: Franklin Works, Park Road, Soho, Birmingham.
Machines Made: UnknownSee also: Cole, Maxfield & Co. , Franklin Sewing Machine Co., A. Maxfield & Co.
Franklin Sewing Machine Co. March 1868 - 1872 Closed
Factory: Franklin Works, Park Road, Soho, Birmingham.
Founders: Charles Fowkes, Arthur Maxfield, Isacc Cole.
Exhibition Medal: London 1870
Machines Made:Agenoria 1868 - 1872 Royal Franklin 1873
See also: Cole, Maxfield & Co. , A. Maxfield & Co. , Charles Fowkes & Co.Greenwood & Batley Est 1856 - pre 1888
Factory: Albion Works, Armley Road, Leeds. Retail: Albert Buildings, Queen Victoria Street, London. Pre 1876 1878
16 Great George Street, Westminster, London. 1891, 1895, 1897, 1902 Founders: A. Greenwood, Sidney T Batley Patentees: A Greenwood & J & A Keats 1868
Became:
Greenwood & Batley Ltd 1889 - 1902
Machines Made:Crispin Wax Thread 1876 Keats Patent Lockstitch 1879 Keats Rotary 1881,1882 Keats Patent Wax Thread 1888
Gresham & Craven
W.G. Guinness & Co. 1862
Became:
Guinness & Co. By 1865 - 1868Factory; 42 Cheapside, London 1864 - 1868
Machine Made:Guinness
Harpur & Mason Est 1890 - 1892
AKA Harpur Bros & Mason 1892 - 1897
Factory: 72 Lozells Road, Birmingham. 1890 -1892 Harp Works, Price Street, Birmingham. (1897)
Machine Made:Handy 1890 Note: Manufacturered cycles 1892 - 1897
Joseph Harris & Co. - sewing machines produced by the Imperial Sewing Machine Co. from c1873 -1877
1875 Advertisement Factory: Franklin Works, Park Road, Soho, Birmingham 1874, 1875. Renamed Factory: Imperial Sewing Machine Works, Park Road, Soho, Birmingham 1876 Retail: Oriel House, 41 Bull St, Birmingham.
Machines Made:Imperial 1873 Agenoria 1873 1875 Challenge 1872 1875 1876 Eureka 1877 Taken over by: Royal Sewing Machine Co.
Greville C. Harston pre 1873
Became:Greville Harston & Co. Ltd by 1875 Closed c187610 Weaman Street, Birmingham by 1873 Factory: Bath Street, Birmingham 1876 Retail: 95 Bath Street, Birmingham
117 & 118 Bishopsgate Street Without, London.
Machine Made:Non Pareil
Charles & William Harwood c1855 - 1872 +
Britannia Iron Foundry, Lower Loveday Street, Birmingham 1867. Reed's Buildings, Shadwell Street, Birmingham 1867. Retail: 54 New Summer Street, Birmingham 1862 1867.
New Town Row by 1872 -1876+
Became:
Harwood's London Machine Works Co. by 1873 - 1875
Machines Made:Thomas Types 1862 - 1867
Heron, Gresham & Craven Est 1869 - c1875
Factory: Craven Iron Works, South Hall Street, Ordsall Lane, Salford, Manchester.
Partners: John Spier Heron, James Gresham, Thomas Craven,
Note: John S. Heron left the partnership on 23rd April 1875 & he died in 1880
Became
Gresham & Craven c1875 - 1880+
Became:
Gresham & Craven Ltd c1880 - 1884 Ceased sewing machine production.
Machines Made:Gresham 1873 -1878 (Patented March 1867) The Seymour 1873 Improved Gresham 1873 -1880 Reversible Gresham 1873 The Heron 1878 1880
Hillman & Herbert Est 1876 - 1881+
Premier Works, Corner of South Street & Read Street, Coventry
Partners William Hillman & William Henry Herbert
Machine Made:Little Maid The Hillman Lock-stitch 1878
John Holme Pre 1867 - c1873
Factory: Longford Buildings, Ormond Street, Manchester Retail: 43 Oxford Street, Chorlton-on-Medlock.
Became:
Oxford Sewing Machine Co. by 1874 - post 1876
Machine Made:Ariel 1868
Howe Machine Company Ltd Started production in the UK in 1873 - 1886 Closed
Factory: Avenue Street, Bridgeton, Glasgow, Scotland. Retail: 64 Regent Street, London 1871
46 & 48 Queen Victoria Street, London. 1875 1882Exhibition Medal: Paris 1878
Machines Made:Howe Types A, B, C, D, E Crown Howe Elias Howe Note; Bicycles & Tricycles being produced by 1883
Hopkinson Bros pre 1880 - 1885+
18 Cleveland Street, Doncaster. 1881
49 & 51 Cleveland Street Doncaster 1885Founders: F & L Hopkinson
Machine Made:Hopkinson
Ideal Sewing Machine Co. Ltd. by 1919 - 1922+
Machine Made:Ideal Type A Ideal Type B
Imperial Sewing Machine Co. Est 1873 - 1877 Closed
Factory: Franklin Works, Park Road, Birmingham.1874 -1875 Renamed Factory: Imperial Sewing Machine Works, Park Road, Soho, Birmingham 1876
Founders: Joseph Harris, John Judson
Machines Made:Agenoria 1875 Challenge 1875 Challenge (new Patent) 1876 Shakspear 1875?
1877 Taken over by: Royal Sewing Machine Co.
W. Jackson & Sons c1870 - 1881
Factory: Warlingham, Surrey. Retail: 1a Caroline Street, Eton Square, London.
Became:
Jackson's Patent Boot Sole Sewing Machine Co. Ltd Est 1881 -1883+53 Cannon Street, London.
Machines Made:The Automaton 1874 Duchess of Edinburgh 1874 - 1876 Boot Sole Sewing Machine 1874
Horace Cornelius Johnson c1883
Attleborough, Norfolk.
Machine Made:unnamed
William Jones Est 1859 - 1860
1885 Promotional Leaflet
The above leaflet is reproduced from the Evanion Collection of Ephemera
by kind permission of the British Library Board
Factory: 1859 Audenshaw.
1860 Ashton-Under-Lyne.
1869 Guidebridge, Manchester.
Became:
Chadwick & Jones c1860 - 1863
Became:
Jones & Co. 1864 - c1869
Became:
Jones & Co. Ltd c1889 - 1968
1968 Taken over by Brother
Machines Made:W & W Type Howe Types A, B, C 1878 1885 Jones Hand 1879 c1906 Family T.S. 1878 & Exhibited at Melbourne Exhibition 11th April 1881, 1885 Medium T.S. 1885 Jones Boot Closing Machine 1885 Medium Spool 1889 Family C.S. 1893 Medium C.S.
Charles T. Judkins Est 1852 - 1863 +
Retail: 1854 35 Corporation Street, Manchester
1854 - 1856 23 Cannon Street West, London.
1863 -1864 - 22 Ludgate Street, London.
1866 – 4 Ludgate Hill, St Pauls, London.
1871 - 16 Ludgate Hill, London.
1875 - 98 Fleet Street, London.
Became:
Judkins Domestic Sewing Machine Co. Ltd by 1865
Became:
Judkins & Co. by 1871 -1875+
Machines Made:Domestic Hand 1866 The Judkins Lancashire New England
NOTE: It is not clear if Judkins actually produced these
machines or whether he had them manufactured to his design.
Daniel Judson & Son Ltd Pre 1884 - 1890's
77 Southwark Street, London
Machine Made:The Tabitha 1886 1888
Kimball & Morton Est 1867 - 1887
Partners: A. Kimball & John Morton
Note: A. Kimball left the partnership 8th May 1874Factory: 80 Bishop Street, Anderston, Glasgow. Pre 1876 1879
11 Bothwell Circus, Glasgow. By 1885 - 1901+
11a Norfolk Street Works, Glasgow. By 1895
Became:
Kimball & Morton Ltd 1887 - 1955
Machines Made:Stitch in Time - Hand Machine Family 1878 Medium Medium High Arm Domestic Oscillator 1889 Grommet machine 1892 Overedge Sack sewing Machine 1874 Lion Sewing Machine (early model) 1868 Lion Sewing Machine (late model) 1902
Laing's Patent Overhead Hand Stitch Sewing Machine Co. Ltd. Pre 1876 - Post 1885
Factory: 4 Bain Street Dundee.
Founder: James Laing
Machine Made:Industrial sack machine
Lancashire Sewing Machine Co. 1852 - 1855
Depot: 2 Lawrence Lane, Cheapside, London 1853
Note: Machines Exhibited at the Irish Industrial Exhibition 1853 & Sydenham Crystal Palace Exhibition 1854
Machine Made:Lancashire shuttle machine 1852 -1853 Lancashire circular needle machine 1853 - 1855
Mackenzie Sewing Machine Co. c1862 - 1864
32 St. Enoch Square, Glasgow.
Machine Made:
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1874 Advertisement Mackenzie Cylinder Machine
A. Maxfield & Co. 1872 - c1877 Closed
Factory: Agenoria Works (1873) later called New Street Works, 71 & 72 Spencer Street, Birmingham. Retail: 65 Constitution Hill, Birmingham. 1873
Machine Made:Maxfield Agenoria 1873 - 1877 1877 Taken over by: Royal Sewing Machine Co.
See also: Cole, Maxfield & Co. , Franklin Sewing Machine Co., Charles Fowkes & Co.
Mc Quinn c1875 - c1880
Founder: Charles Mc Quinn
Neptune Works, 196 Icknield Street East, Birmingham.
Machine Made:Mc Quinn
Moldacot Pocket Sewing Machine Co. Ltd Est 1886 - 1888
Offices: Bloomfield House, London Wall, London.
Founders: A.D. Moll & J. C. Cottam
Became:
Moldacot (Colonial Foreign) Pocket Sewing Machine Co. Ltd 1888
Became:
United Sewing Machine Co. 1888 Closed
Machine Made:Moldacot (Push action or hand crank) 1887
Manufactured by: W. M. Brown, Brearly Street, Birmingham, & J. Holroyd, Tomlinson Street, Hulme, Manchester
H. Moore pre 1873 - 1885+
Factory: 52 Broad Green, Wellingborough. Retail: 5, 23,& 24 High Street, Wellingborough. Exhibition Medals: Northampton & Leath 1873
Machine Made:New Elastic & Repairing c1883 1885 Cording Machine 1885
Nussey & Pilling Est 1868 - 1876
Factory: Park Works, 4 Park Lane, Leeds.
Retail: 1870 S.W Silver & Co., 3 & 4 Bishopsgate Within, London, also 66 & 67 Cornhill, London.
1876 C. E. Wilson, 20 Falcon Square, London.
Founders: Arthur Nussey & Altham Pilling
Exhibition Medal: Durham 1873
Became:
Nussey & Co. 1877 +
Machines Made:W & W Type 1868 1876 Byron 1874? Little Stranger No’s 1, 2, 3, 3a, 3b, 4, 4a, 5, 5a, 5b, 1869 - 1876 Noiseless Tudor 1870 1877 Improved Little Stranger 1873 1877 Nussing & Pilling Family 1876 1877
William Pearson & Co. 1862 - 1864+
Little Neville Street, Leeds.
Became:
Pearson & Co. pre 1875 - 1884
Factory: Neville Iron Works, School Close, Leeds 1864 Chadwick Street, Hunslet, Leeds. by 1881
Machines Made:The Pearson The Pearson No.2
Pendelton Machine Company c1875
Factory: Pendleton (nr Railway Station), Lancashire.
Offices: 27 Ward's Buildings, Deansgate, Manchester.
Founder: George Bradbury
Manager: Charles Bradbury
Machine Made:Unknown but using Bradbury & Lomax's patents
Pitt Brothers Est 1852 - 1885 +
Factory: Alma Foundry, Liversedge, Yorkshire.
Founders: James, Joseph, Edward & William Pitt
Machine Made:Circular Feed 1876 1882 Princess 1883
Rayer & Lincoln Machine Co. Pre 1876 - 1879+
Factory: Hulme Street, Chorlton on Medlock, Manchester.
Patentees: Butterworths & Stephenson
Machine Made:Unknown
Redditch Sewing Machine Co., Redditch. c1870's
Machine Made:The Rival c1878
Owen Robinson & Co. Est 1856 - 1885 +
Factory: Dalkeith Place, Kettering.
Champion Sewing Machine Works, Victoria Street, Kettering 1872 1879.
Founder: Owen Robinson
Machines Made:Flowering Machine Champion 1862 No.1 Champion 1867 1880 Cut & Heeler 1867 R. Heeling & Attaching Family Treasure 1874 Little Treasure 1882 The Kettering 1880 No. 1 Family 1880 No. 2 Medium 1880
Royal Machine Manufacturing Co. Ltd Est 1882 - 1888 +
See Royal Sewing Machine Co.Royal Sewing Machine Co. Est 1867 - 1877
Factory: Herbert Road, Small Heath, Birmingham. Retail: 32 Union Street, Birmingham 1879.
Founder: Thomas Shakspear later joined by George Illston (Manager)
1877 took over Imperial Sewing Machine Co. which had been formed as a partnership between Joseph Harris & John Judson in 1873.
Became:
Royal Sewing Machine Co. Ltd Est 1877 - 1882
Became:
Royal Machine Manufacturing Co. Ltd Est 1882 - 1888 +
Machines Made:Royal (W & W type) 1872 -1888 Shakespear 1872 -1888 (also labelled Monarch 1875) Challenge 1874 -1888 Eugenie 1874 - 1880 Avon 1874 1875 Regent 1875 Windsor 1874 - 1888 (also labelled The South Kensington, Parkinson) Agenoria 1877 - 1883 Times A 1883 1884 Times C 1888 Eureka
S.C. Salisbury c1861 - 1866
Coventry Essex Street, The Strand, London
Patentee: S.C. Salisbury & James Starley 1861
Machines Made:Grover & Baker principle machines
Self Acting Sewing Machine Co. Ltd
Depot: 233 Regent Street, London
Machines Made:Self Acting Lock Stitch Self Acting Lock Stitch & Button Hole
Wm Sellers Est 1854 - pre 1868
Factory: Airedale Works, Larkholme Lane, Keighley.
Retail: 12 Walbrook, London to c1898.
20 Manchester Avenue, London c1899 - c1910.
5/6 Kinghorn Street, London.
6/7Kinghorn Street, London 1914 1915.
1 Kinghorn Street, London c1924.
Founder: William Sellers
Exhibition Medal: Amsterdam 1869
Production: 1875 15000 per annum
Became:
Wm Sellers & Co. - pre 1868 - 1880+
Became:
Wm Sellers & Sons c1881 - 1924 +
Note: Sellers & Allen was set up in 1875 to deal with the Wholesale & Export trade still operating in 1924
Machines Made:Thomas Type No. 1, 1.5, 2 & 3 1854 1884 Lancashire Type 1854 Universal Feed 1870 1884 Stitchwell Family & Medium 1870 - 1884 Seamstress W & W type 1870 1884 Hand Lock Stitch 1870? 1878 Howe Types No. 1 & 2 1870 1884 Thomas Types Nos 1, 1 2, 3 1878 No. 4 1884 Sellers V.S.
Shakespear & Illston Est 1860 - 1867
Founders: Thomas Shakespear and George Illston
Became:
1867Royal Sewing Machine Co.
1885 Promotional Leaflet
The above leaflet is reproduced from the Evanion Collection of Ephemera
by kind permission of the British Library BoardShepherd, Rothwell & Hough Est 1872 - Feb 1889 Closed
Factory: Roscoe Street, Mumps.
Maltby's Buildings, Gas Street, Oldham.
Rhodes Bank, Union Street, Oldham 1876 - 1880
By 1882 Rochdale Road, Oldham.
Founders: Emanual Shepherd, Fred Rothwell, Tom Rothwell and James Hough
Exhibition Medal: Oldham Agricultural Society 1879
Became:
Eclipse Machine Company Est Feb 1889 to c1919
Factory: Rochdale Road, Oldham.
Founders: Fred & Tom Rothwell
Machines Made:Eclipse S Family 1873 - 1889 Eclipse S Medium 1889 Eclipse A (Howe Principle) 1873 - 1876 Eclipse B 1873 - 1876 Eclipse C 1873 - 1876 Hand Machine Eclipse Reversible 1885
R. E. Simpson & Co. 1859 - 1871 +
Factory: 90 Maxwell Street, Glasgow. 1865 - 1870 Retail: 116 Cheapside, London. 1862 - 1867 Patent Date: February 15th 1859
Machines Made:No. 1 13 inch Table Machine 1860 No. 2 18 inch Table Machine 1860 No. 3 Arm Machine 1860 Universal Family 1865 Family & Medium Singer Principle
Singer Manufacturing Co. Ltd Established Factory in the UK in 1869
Factory:
Love Loan, Glasgow 1869 -1871
James Street, Bridgeton, Glasgow. 1871 - 1884
Kilbowie, Glasgow. 1884 - 1980
Machines Made:Notably Model 12, 13, 15, V.S.2, V.S.3, 27, 28, 48, 115, 127, 128, 221, 222,
as well as many, many others including Industrial machines
Thomas Slater & Co. c1860 - c1876 closed
120 Tennant Street, Birmingham by 1866
133 Tennant Street, Birmingham 1867.
18 & 19 Edmund Street, Birmingham by 1872.
18 New Edmund Street Birmingham by 1875.
Machines Made:Peoples Little Wonder 1870 1873
James Smith 1865
8 1/2 Crown Street, Finsbury, London.
became:
James Smith & Co.Crown Court, Crown Street, Finsbury, London.
Machine Made:The English
So-All Sewing Machine Co. c1891 - 1892
Retail: 3 Oxford St, London.
Patentee: J. A. Postans
Founders: J. Moton, W.U. Morton, J. R. U. Morton and H. A. Stuart
Became:
So-All Lockstitch Sewing Machine Co. Ltd Est. Nov. 1892 - c1896
Machine Made:So-All. (Possibly manufactured by Kimball & Morton)
St. George's Foundry Co. 1877 - 1883
Factory: Pope Street, Birmingham. Retail: 8a Charter House Buildings, Aldersgate Street, London.
Became:
St. George's Engineering Co. 1884 - 1889
Machine Made:Princess of Wales Queen Improved Express
See also Newton Wilson & Co.
Starley & Co. 1869 - c1873
Factory: St Agnes Works, Hales Street, Coventry.
Founders: James Starley & William Hillman
Exhibition Medals: Lyons 1872, Vienna 1873, London 1874, Manchester 1875.
Became:
Smith & Starley c1873 - 1877
Factory: Trafalgar Works, Crow Lane, Coventry. 1876
Retail: c1874 Bassinghall Street London
From c1875 until c1884 1 New Broad Street, London. G. E. Wright Agent 1875Founders: Borthwick Smith & James Starley
Became:
Smith-Starley & Co. Ltd Jan 1878 - 1884
Machines Made:Little Dorrit 1875 - 1877 Little Europa 1877 - 1884 Europa No.2 & No.3 1875 - 1884 Queen of Hearts 1875 - 1878 Godiva (Hand)
Became:
Starley & Sutton by 1884 - 1888
Factory: Meteor Works, West Orchard.
Partners: James Starley & William Sutton
Became:
J. K. Starley & Co Ltd Est 1889 1896Factory: Meteor Works, West Orchard.
Became:
Rover Cycle Co. Est 1896Sugden's & Bradbury Est 1852 - pre 1855
Factory: Primrose Bank, Oldham.
Became:
Sugdens, Bradbury & Firth by 1855 - c1858Factory: 1855 Rhodes Bank Foundry, Oldham
Became:
Bradbury & Co. by 1859 - 1874Factory: 1866 Wellington Works, Oldham.
Became:
Bradbury & Co. Ltd 1874 -1924
Machines Made:Lancashire 1852 1884 Howe Principle 1862 1887 Thomas 1862 1884 Empire 1862 Belgravia 1867 1884 A 1 Repairer 1871 1924 Letter S Family 1875 1899 Letter S Medium 1875 1890 Practical Tailor 1875 1884 Magic 1877 1884 Willcox & Gibbs Principle 1877 1897 Wellington 1877 1898 Oscillating Shuttle (New Wilson) 1880 1884 Practical Hatter 1880 1897 Rotary No. 1 1879 1884 Rotary No. 2 1882 1905 Rotary No. 3 1883 Rotary No. 4 1884 1903 No. 5 1886 No. 6 /Spool machine 1893 1912 Cylinder Golosh 1897 Twin Needle Double Shuttle 1897 No. 9 1897 No. 10 1897 High Arm Family 1897 1905 Soeze 1898 1906 Medium V.S. 1905 1924 Family V.S. 1906 1924 No. 45 1908 1912
Tailor Bird Sewing Machine Co. Ltd 1947 - 1953
Factory: Richborough Hall, Sandwich, Kent
Machines Made:Tailor Bird Sew Maid
F.B. Taylor c1874
Machine Made:The Little Belle
Taylor's Patent Sewing Machine Co. Pre 1870 - Post 1873
Became:
Taylor's Patent Sewing Machine Co. Ltd Post 1873 - Post 1884
Factory: Eastgate, Driffield, South Yorkshire. Offices: 97 Cheapside, London 1873 1880
4 Lawrence Lane, London 1880Manager: William Taylor Patentee: Taylor 1866, 1868, 1870 Exhibition Medal: South African International Exhibition, Cape Town July 1877 Note: Company placed in liquidation in 1879
Machines Made:
Taylor's Patent Improved Taylor Taylor's Twisted Loop
Thomas Sewing Machine Co. Est 1853 - Pre 1862
1862 to 1879 Factory: 54 Union Passage, Birmingham.
Retail: 66 Newgate Street, London. by 1862
1 & 2 Cheapside, London . by 1869
Exhibition Medals: Paris 1855, London1862, Paris 1867.
Became:
1871 Advertisement
W. F. Thomas & Co. By 1855 - c1891
Factory: 1876 - 1885 101 New Town Row, Birmingham.
1880's - c1895 11 Clerkenwell Close, London.
Retail:1860 -1872+ 1 & 2 Cheapside, London & Regent Circus, Oxford Street, London.
1880 - 1899+: 30 Aldersgate Street, London.
c1882 - c1884: 48 Holborn Viaduct, London.
Became:
Thomas Sewing Machine Co. Ltd 1891 - 1899
Became:
The Clerkenwell Engineers
Became:
The Thomas Manufacturing Co. Ltd c1901Factory: 11 Clerkenwell Close, London.
Retail: 30 Aldersgate Street, London.
6 Dowgate Hill, London
Machines Made:No. 01 Domestic 1860 1896 No.1, 1b, 1860 1896 No.1D, 1E c1870 No.2, 2b, 2c 1860 1869 No.2T, 2T double action c1870 No.3, 3b, 3c 1860 Thomas 1867 The London Circular Head c1870 "A" Registered Shuttle (Holly) 1869 1875 Domestic Hand (Chain Stitch) 1871 1873 1876 No 3b Boot Machine 1875 The Post Machine 1883 1885 Singer Type 1885 Button Hole Machine 1890 1896
Two Reel Lock Stitch Sewing Machine Co. Ltd Est 1891 -1898
59 Holborn Viaduct, London. 1891 1895 62 Albion Street, Birmingham. 1892 35 Colmore Row, Birmingham. 1896,1897 Argyle Street, Birmingham 1896, 1897
Founders: Daniel Jones & William Mc Pherson
Machines Made:Two Reel Lock stitch Jones’ Patent
Universal Sewing Machine Co. (Oldham) 1874
Machine Made:W & W Type
Varley & Wolfenden Pre 1874 - 1895+
Factory: Cyclops Sewing Machine Works, Marley Street, Keighley.
Became:
Varley & Co. by 1898 - 1919
Retail 11 Dyers Buildings, 18 Holborn, London.
Machines Made:Cyclops Family High Arm Family (Fiddlebase)
Vickers Ltd - sewing machines from 1914 - 1939
Retail 24 & 25 Fore Street, London.
Machine Made:Vickers Modle de Luxe Vickers 7000
Note: By 1939 Vickers machines made by E. Harris & Co Ltd, Lombard Road, Morden Road, London.
Vincent & Co. 1876
Astwood Bank, Redditch.
Machine Made:Vincent
H. Wallwork & Co. c1888
See James Warwick.
Edward Ward Est 1860 - c1877
Factory: 4 Wells Street, London. Exhibition Medals: 2 Medals 1870
Became:
E. Ward & Co. c1878 -1892
Machines Made:Elastic Machine Flowering Machine 1865 - 1875 Cross arm Closing machine Howe Type Lily Arm & Platform Mk1 1875 - 1877 Arm & Platform Mk2 (improved) 1877 - 1892 No. 12 machine 1888 Alert 1888
James Warwick c1866 - 1888
Factory: 26 Hilton Street, Manchester.
By 1876 59 Hilton Street, Manchester.
Machine Made:Victoria The Warwick 1874
Note: By 1888 40,000 sewing machines had been produced
Became:
Henry Wallwork & Co. 1888 - pre 1894 sewing machine production ceasedFactory: City Works, Hilton Street, Manchester.
8 Union Bridge Foundry, Charter Street
Union Bridge Iron Works, Roger Street, Manchester
NOTE: We have a reference to Henry Wallwork & Co. Ltd operating a foundry on Roger Street in 1917.
Machine Made:The Warwick
Watson & Co. Est 1868 - 1880 +
Factory: Lee Mills, Manchester Street, Oldham.
Machines Made:Family Medium Victoria (Wheeler & Wilson Type) 1872 1877 The Watson
James Weir Est 1867 - 1889 Closed
Factory: Belmont Street, Chalk Farm Road, London. Retail: 2 Carlisle St, Soho, London.
Machines Made:The Weir 1877 (with Weir's Patenteted improvements) Weirs 55s 1874 The Globe 1874 - 1877 (without the improvements)
NOTE: It is not clear if James Weir actually produced the above
machines or whether he had them manufactured.
Machines Sold:The Lady's 1867 - 1877 supplied by I. Schoeder, Darmstadt, Germany. American 1867 1870 The Weir 1869 - 1876 supplied by Chas Raymond, Canada until 1876 Victoria 1870 Jackson 1870 Zypher 1874 - 1879 supplied by Böttcher, Germany. Argus 1877 Aurora 1879
Whalley Smith & Paget c1884
Became:
Smith & Paget 1885Factory: Parker Street Iron Works, Keightley.
Whight & Mann Est 1859 - 1878 Closed
Factory: Gipping Works, New Station Road, Ipswich.
Retail 1862 1863 122 Holborn Hill, London.
1864 - 1876 143 Holborn-Bars, London.
1876 1877 12 Holborn-Bars, London.
Became:
George Whight & Co. 1878 - 1888 Closed During this period the machines sold were imported
143 Holborn-Bars, London.
Machines Made:Excelsior 1862 - 1877 Star 1865 Alberta 1868 - 1876 Princess 1869 -1871 Prima Donna 1869 - 1876 Little Darling 1875 Family machine 1876 No.2 Machine (Thomas principle) 1874
1870 Advertisement
Machines Sold:New Excelsior 1879 Supplied by Junker & Ruh Columbia Supplied by Junker & Ruh The Duchess (chain stitch) Prima Donna Family (Singer Principle)
William Winter Est 1861 - 1878 +
Factory: 1861- Commercial Court, Briggate, Leeds.
1864 -1870 7 South Brook Street, Leeds.
1870 -1872 Paragon Works 20 Swinegate, Leeds.
1875 Wormolds Yard, Briggate, Leeds.
1878 14 Carlton Terrace, Leeds.
Machines Made:Howe Types 1, 2, 3 1861 1863 Singer Principle 1861 1863 Family 1872 Flowering 1869 1872 Invincible 1870 1872 Boot Repairer 1867 Bespoke 1872
Newton Wilson & Co. Est 1857 - 1895 + (Sewing machines produced from 1864 on)
Factory: 1864 Woolpack Lane, Nottingham.
Partners: Newton Wilson, Josiah Turner
Pre 1867 - 1877 St. George's Foundry, 52 Pope Street, Birmingham.
Note: John Cornforth took possession of St Georges Foundry in 1877 having advanced Newton Wilson a total of £21,183
Factory became:
St. George's Foundry Co. c1877 - 1883
Became:
St. George's Engineering Co. 1884 1885
See also St George's Foundry Co.
Retail: 1857 - 1883 144 High Holborn, London.
1884 Moved to 102 Southampton Row, London.
1884 Also at 67 Southampton Row, London.
c1867 144 Cheapside, London.
1867 - 1874 210 Regent Street
Moved to 246 Regent Street, London.
Illustration from a Newton Wilson & Co
1876 Price ListExhibition Medals:1867 Paris 1873 Vienna
Machines Sold:Boudoir 1858 - 1863 supplied by Chas Howland The Cottage 1858 - 1860 Blake 1862 Knotted Stitch 1858 - 1869 supplied by Grover & Baker Royal Elliptic 1863 - 1867 American Button Hole 1868 - 1869 Supplied by American B.H.O & Sewing Machine Co. Machines Made:
Royal Elliptic A, B, D types 1864 Howe Type 1864 Singer No. 2 Type 1864 Queen Mab 1866 - 1876 Cleopatra 1866 - 1876 Penelope 1867 - 1870 Dorcas 1867 - 1871 Princess of Wales 1870 - 1895 Englands Queen 1874 - 1876 Queen Bess 1874 - 1877 Queen O' Scots 1874 - 1877 Wilsons Patent Singer 1875 - 1895 Wilsons Patent Whistler 1876 - 1877 Tower 1876 - 1881 Perfection 1877 - 1879 Wallace Ash
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