WWII Sewing Machines

[dustin]

What a fun thread! We are learning more about sewing machines than we've ever wanted to, I presume. 

 

Obviously there are the factory use of machines. Then we have the next level of maintenance echelons at depots and various other stations etc. There were mobile repair units of all types for all equipment repairs in the forward area.

 

here is a look inside one such mobile repair truck, they would have for clothing and equipment.

 

Here is a shoe and clothing repair shop in India.

 

Here is a factory look with another brand besides Singer, manufacture of flak armor.

 

[dustin]

Then we have the true "field" repairs.

 

USMC S/SGT John Ercole on Saipan mending his surely tattered dungarees. The Singer sewing machine was so robust it appears it's the only thing that survived in the bombed out building.

 

Another image from Saipan.

 

 

[numbersix]

I have a Singer 66 Sewing Machine and the Singer Treadle table (same as or very similar to the one on the right at the Indian repair shop photo previously posted). They are definitely built to last, I still use mine for clothing repairs.

[patches]

As this may be thee topic on military sewing machines and not just WWII ones, allow me to add this photo, a 1960s SINGER, photo from 1968 of a Fort Ord PX seamstress with a pile of old PFC E-3 stripes she's been removing from uniform items to sew on the new PFC E-3 stripes.

 

Seems the soldiers just dropped most of the items off there without bothering to remove the superseded stripes themselves, not wanting to keep them etc etc.

[TheCrustyBosun]

Here’s a WWII era rigger at work. Photo is from The USAAF Airman, Service and Survival 1941-45 bu Martin J. Brayley. 

[mruiz]

WOW, I work here at the army ordnance school, The a/c information is great for WWII. Westinghouse had a water cooled unit. 

Thanks

[doyler]

There is an upholstery shop I know of that still uses two original WW2 sewing machines from the BOYT factory.

[avigo]

15 minutes ago, doyler said:

There is an upholstery shop I know of that still uses two original WW2 sewing machines from the BOYT factory.

 

That's awesome! Where is that shop?

[doyler]

6 hours ago, avigo said:

 

That's awesome! Where is that shop?

 

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