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11-828: The White Sewing Machine Company was a sewing machine company founded in 1858 in Templeton, Massachusetts , by Thomas H. White and based in Cleveland, Ohio , since 1866. Founded as the White Manufacturing Company it took the White Sewing Machine Company name when it was incorporated in 1876. White Sewing Machines won numerous awards at international expositions, including the 1889 Universelle Exposition in Paris . White began supplying sewing machines to Sears Roebuck and Co in

22-874: The White Motor Company . By 1923, the White Sewing Machine Company had divested all side ventures to focus solely on sewing machines and accessories. By the early 1950s, however, White was losing money amid a flood of cheaper imported sewing machines and the loss of a supplier contract from Sears , which had represented 40 percent of White's business. Edward Reddig became company president in 1955, and he led an aggressive campaign of shifting manufacturing overseas, slashing domestic manufacturing, and diversification. White moved heavily into appliances, tools and machinery, acquiring appliance brands such as Kelvinator (from American Motors ), Gibson , Philco (from Ford Motor Company / GTE ) and Franklin (a private label supplier, from Studebaker-Worthington ). To reflect this,

33-478: The 1920s. By the 1930s, all Sears sewing machines were Whites rebadged as Kenmore , Franklin, Minnesota, and other house brands. A White Rotary Electric Series 77 machine was placed in the Crypt of Civilization . In 1900, Thomas White's son, Rollin , developed a steam engine , using a corner of one of his father's factories to start building automobiles. In 1906 the automotive venture was spun off as its own company,

44-540: The Husqvarna spinoff in 2006. Singer, Husqvarna Viking and Pfaff brands are now all owned by SVP Worldwide . Though not advertised, SVP provides all of their user manuals for all of their brands including the "White" brand through the Singer brand website. This article related to a manufacturing company is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . White Sewing Machine The White Sewing Machine

55-463: The Husqvarna) brand name. The White line of sewing machines was consolidated into the lower end Husqvarna Viking brand after this spinoff. The White-Westinghouse brand name remained with Electrolux and that name is the only remnant of the "White Sewing Machine Company" name, however the brand line included no sewing machines. New White-branded sewing machines models have not been manufactured since

66-471: The White Sewing Machine used a "boat" shuttle that was comparable to those used in contemporary transverse shuttle machines. In 1886 the shuttle was changed to a bullet shape, with a thin rod in the interior upon which the bobbin rotates. The change was probably prompted by the bullet shuttle used in the new Singer Vibrating Shuttle machine, invented the year before, itself a derivative of

77-509: The White machine. Still later, the shuttle was refined again for the Peerless machines. White produced VS machines under several different badges, in addition to the Peerless. These included 'Franklin' (same name as a Singer model 27 clone produced later), 'Mason D', 'Minnesota E', and 'Queen'. D'Arcy Porter and George W. Baker designed the machine and are named as inventors on most of

88-605: The company renamed itself White Consolidated Industries (WCI) in 1964. WCI purchased Westinghouse 's major appliance business in 1975, which resulted in creation of the White-Westinghouse brand name. In 1979, WCI bought the Frigidaire appliance line from General Motors . WCI was acquired by Electrolux in 1986. In 2006 Electrolux spun off a number of its lines under the Husqvarna (including variations of

99-407: The six original US patents, dated 1876–1877, that cover it. The company literature would later look back adoringly on them, calling them "two of [White's] best mechanics" who had "perfected a new type of sewing machine, far superior to anything then on the market". At the time of its development, the machine was the White Sewing Machine Company's flagship product—so much so that it was simply named

110-504: Was the first sewing machine from the White Sewing Machine Company . It used a vibrating shuttle bobbin driver design. For that reason, and to differentiate it from the later White Family Rotary that used a rotary hook design instead, it came to be known as the " White Vibrating Shuttle " or " White VS ". In 1879 it cost USD 50 to US$ 125 (US$ 1097 to US$ 2744 adjusted) depending on which table or cabinet it

121-476: Was to be mounted in. The White VS continued in production, with improvements, until the early 1900s. There was also a 3/4-sized version called the " White Peerless ". The White VS evolved over time through these versions: White developed a 3/4-sized version for the sake of portability, exactly as Singer was developing the 3/4-sized model VS-3/28/128. It was called the 'Peerless' and its evolution tracked that of its full-sized parent: The first versions of

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