White Rotary Sewing Machine Serial Numbers

While the founder's love was truly sewing machines and he pursued many related innovations, his sons became interested in other types of machinery, such as steam-powered automobiles. The early days of the 20th century were explosive with growth for the company. Indeed, White diversified as early as 1903, making roller skates, automatic lathes, kerosene lamps and even cars.

When White's sons couldn't convince their father that the steam automobile was worth keeping in production, Windsor and Walter White spun that product division off from White, forming the White Motor Corporation in 1906. Aimbot.

The White Sewing Machine Co. then turned its attention back to its original product.

' It was about 1876 that the White Sewing Machine Company manufactured its first sewing machine. The industry was started and was owned by the late Mr. Since that year, in a total of four decades, this company has manufactured and sold approx imately 4.000.000 sewing machines. This is a collectible 1918 vintage complete old White Rotary electric sewing machine. This unique White Rotary is in good condition and we didn't try to see if it works. The machine has a high level of details. Serial number FR 3310224 made in 1918.

In 1909, White Motor Corporation introduced a gasoline-powered automobile.

In 1910, White Motor Corporation produced its first gasoline- powered truck.

In 1916 White bought the Raymond Manufacturing Company based in Canada

Meanwhile, White's sewing machine innovations piled up, including the progenitor to the portable sewing machine, the first furniture-style sewing machine cabinets, the first full rotary mechanism and, in the 1920s, an electric motor.

It was in 1918 that the company dropped the passenger car line and very successfully specialized in producing trucks and buses.

' It was about 1876 that the White Sewing Machine Company manufactured its first sewing machine. The industry was started and was owned by the late Mr. Thomas H. White. Since that year, in a total of four decades, this company has manufactured and sold approximately 4.000.000 sewing machines. There was a very small output in 1876, but the business was continuously and consistently developed by Mr. White and his associates. In recent years they have manufactured and sold approximately 600 machines a day. Practically 80 per cent of this modern production are White rotaries.'

1918 - A History of Cleveland and Its Environs

Naturally, all of these advances made the company's sewing machines even more popular, so in 1923, White Sewing stopped manufacturing its other product lines and focused on sewing machines and accessories.

Like many other sewing-machine manufacturers, White manufactured and labeled many for retailers.

In 1924 after acquiring the Domestic Sewing Machine Company of Buffalo, New York, the company signed a contract with Sears,Roebuck & Co Yamaha mo8 keyboard for sale. to supply them with private-label machines. The White company continued manufacturing the Domestic-made Franklin sewing machines for Sears Roebuck & Co. Domestic became a fully-owned subsidiary of White. Over the next 12 years, White supplied Sears with about 20 percent of their sewing machine output.

By 1926, White had acquired Theodore Kundtz Furniture Factory, which made White's sewing furniture, King Sewing Machine Co. and, from Sears, the Domestic Sewing Machine Co. (1924). Under the leadership of company president A S Rodgers, the company was reorganised as the White Sewing Machine Corporation. Eventually a subsidiary, which became known as Standard Sewing Equipment Corporation, was formed.

With the Great Depression came renewed interest in home sewing. White continued to innovate, introducing the first sewing machine outside of its traditional black models, which was made of a magnesium alloy and was also much lighter than its forebears.

This product did well enough to warrant the formation of a second subsidiary in 1939, White Sewing Machine Products Limited, in Canada.

During World War II, like many U.S. companies, White turned over its manufacturing for the purpose of producing goods to aid the war effort. Production was high enough to necessitate a move to a bigger plant in 1949. A new administration building was completed in 1951.

The world was a changed place by then, as a strong demand for consumer goods ensued. While White had improved its production methods significantly, and 2,000 machines were rolling forth a day, imported machines from Germany, Italy, and Japan, had begun to swamp the U.S. market, and it was becoming impossible to compete with their prices. In fact, White spent on materials alone what a finished, imported sewing machine cost in the United States. Even though the company had a hearty $20 million in sales in 1954, it reported a $440,667 net loss and had been on an earning slide for the past six years. In such a changing industry, and world, White could no longer afford to remain a one-product company. When Sears, which represented 40 percent of White's business in the early 1950s, gave its manufacturing contract to the Japanese, the company fully realized the need to diversify.

Enter Edward Reddig, an accountant who, upon becoming White's president in 1955, led the charge with a single-mindedness that bordered on ruthless, according to many. Reddig quickly arranged to have White's machines manufactured overseas, to company specifications, and began slashing costs back home, a program that included firing one-third of White's work force.

Reddig also launched an intensive acquisition campaign. The plan was diversity and the targets were largely appliance concerns. White merged with or acquired roughly 14 companies in 1960 alone.

By 1960, White had merged with Husqvarna Viking.

By 1964, the parent company had changed its name to White Consolidated Industries, or WCI, a reflection of its rainbow of acquisitions, which included: the Kelvinator Appliance Division, from American Motors; Gibson, which was then Westinghouse's appliance division; and Franklin Appliance Division of Studebaker. Reddig's recipe was to target companies that were sickly, but not terminal; pay bargain-basement prices for them and then slash overhead, excess product lines, and employees until they were lean and profitable.

One of his targets, Franklin, for example, had lost money in 1964 and 1965 and then had turned a pale profit in 1966; this record was typical of the kind of purchase Reddig sought. Operator ableton free. As an example of his tenacity in reducing costs, 70 percent of Kelvinator's administrative staff was terminated in the first month after takeover. Among newly acquired companies, research and development was often halted and computer operations were often junked.

Reddig attributed his style to his tenure at Arthur Anderson & Co. in Chicago, during the 1930s, where he was assigned to enter big companies and crack the books.

In 1967, WCI acquired Hupp Corporation, a maker of electric appliances, air conditioners and rangers. By the decade's end, WCI had a comprehensive line of tools, valves, household appliances, and machinery. And its sewing machine operations, being handled overseas, were still regarded as the most innovative in the business. White sewing machines introduced the first overlock system designed for a home sewing mach

White Rotary Sewing Machine Serial Numbers