In use from 1865
Recorded serial numbers: 5,642,801
Recorded factories:
- Bridgeport, Connecticut (USA)
- Elizabethport, New Jersey (USA)
- Glasgow Love Loan (Scotland, UK)
- James Street, Bridgeton, Glasgow (Scotland, UK)
- Kilbowie, Clydebank (Scotland, UK)
- New York Mott Street (USA)
Usage Information
- Needle size: 12x1
The Singer "New Family", introduced in 1865 and soon sold in the UK, was later renamed Singer 12.
Early models, with their distinctive "fiddlebed" shape, used a transverse boat-shaped shuttle and round-shank "Class 12x1" needles.
Later models had a rectangular base.
From 1870 it was available for semi-industrial use with a longer arm, as the class 13.
There are many industrial variants, like the 12K Industrial Free Arm.
Documented Machines
(What does it mean?)Total n.: 61
Factories:
- Bridgeport, Connecticut (USA)
- Elizabethport, New Jersey (USA)
- James Street, Bridgeton, Glasgow (Scotland, UK)
- Kilbowie, Clydebank (Scotland, UK)
- New York Mott Street (USA)
Documented Decals:
- Acanthus Leaves
- Acanthus Leaves Industrial Variant
- Acanthus Leaves Mother-of-Pearl
- Early 20th Century Industrial
- Fire Department
- Gilt and Mother-of-Pearl
- Mother-of-Pearl Crosses
- Mother-of-Pearl Ovals
- Mother-of-Pearl Variant
- Mother-of-Pearl Variant #2
- Mother-of-Pearl Variant #3
- Mother-of-Pearl Variant #5
- Mother-of-Pearl Variant #6
- Mother-of-Pearl Variant #7
- Mother-of-Pearl Variant #8
- Ottoman Carnation
- Roses and Scrolls
- Star
- Swirl
- Swirl Variant
- Wheels
Documented years: 1868 - 1899
