THE NEEDLEBAR

Production Numbers of Earlier Singer Industrial Machines

by Chrys Gunther

INTRODUCTION

These are production figures for some earlier Singer industrial machines. Machines produced at Singer's Scottish factory Kilbowie and the Elizabethport in the United States are combined together. This list does not include machines prior to 1900 nor the industrial BA to BY Elizabethport serial numbers. Singer has not published that data.

The list also does not include machines from other factories. It does not include the W models acquired from Wheeler & Wilson. Large numbers of industrial machines were made at some of the other Singer factories. So this is only a partial picture. Some of the Singer data is combined and we don’t know the breakdown, e.g. models 2 and 3 are together. I also cut off the data at model 200 because the bulk of those fall in the BA to BY series.

The purpose of this list is to provide both an idea of the relative scarcity of Singer's early industrial machines, and also as an identification guide.

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Model Number	Numbers Produced	Notes
2 & 3 5, 6 ,8 & 9 7 10 11	3,675 3,987 32,625 115 3,385
14 16 17 18 19	1,973 2,077,475 92,780 * 191,827 5,678
22 23 25 26 29	933 22,630 151,050 46,088 716,920
31 32 33 34 35	2,299,494 92,000 21,735 76,814 1,565
36 41 42 43 44	2,375 7,375 15,650 2,501 443,418
45 46 47 49 51	178,720 84,615 3,179 17,715 10,135
52 53 55 56 57	22,900 5,635 14,150 850 3,775
58 59 62 63 64	5,480 625 21,150 5,100 3,800
67 68 & 69 71 75 76	41 95,950 71 6,275 1,300
77 78 79 81 82	350 29,275 100 101,650 1,062
84 85 86 88 91	1,050 2,325 3,225 9,475 22,830
92 94 95 96 97	8,450 8,450 679,909 534,795 2,550
98 103 104 105 106	465 300,441 300 6,225 2,225
107 108 109 112 114	1,875 * 3,625 5,800 7,525 * 38,194
116 117 119 120 121	550 1,105 4,510 100 250
122 123 124 125 131	100 75 2,160 1,300 103
132 133 138 144 145	48,230 64,681 2,664 500 395
146 147 148 149 151	6,675 33,575 3,850 2,150 5,300
152 153 155 156 172	3,200 5,080 1,325 200 2,650
175 176 178 195 196	39,750 7,900 3,000 39,200 106,294

* NB - The 17 figures are only for the Singer 17 and not the 17W which is a totally different machine. Same for the 107. The 107 listed is a cylinder bed machine and not the 107W. Same for 112. The 112 listed is a cylinder chainstitch machine and not the 112W. Same for the 119. The Singer 119 is a cylinder bed and not a hemstitch machine like the 119W