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^ 'Singer Sewing Machine Factory Kilbowie, Clydebank'.^ Robert Bruce Davies, Peacefully working to conquer the world (Arno Press, 1976) p 170.Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press. From the American System to Mass Production, 1800-1932: The Development of Manufacturing Technology in the United States. Archived from the original on March 28, 2010.

Ellis Island: Immigration's Shining Center. Ī Singer Featherweight model 222k from 1954. The complex of buildings was demolished in 1998. Financial problems and lack of orders forced the world's largest sewing machine factory to close in June 1980, bringing to an end over 100 years of sewing machine production in Scotland. At the height of its productiveness in the mid 1960s, Singer employed over 16,000 workers but by the end of that decade, compulsory redundancies were taking place and 10 years later the workforce was down to 5,000. As part of this modernisation programme, the famous Singer Clock was demolished in 1963. Between 19, the Clydebank factory underwent a Â£4 million modernization program which saw the Clydebank factory cease the production of cast iron machines and focus on the production of aluminium machines for western markets. In 1958, Singer reduced production at their main American plant and transferred 40% of this production to the Clydebank factory in a bid to reduce costs. The late 1950s and 1960s saw a period of significant change at the Clydebank factory. In 1913, the factory shipped 1.3 million machines. Singer was the world leader and sold more machines than all the other makers added together. From its opening in 1884 until 1943, the Kilbowie factory produced approximately 36,000,000 sewing machines.

1910 singer red eye 66 sewing machine parts slide plate