Date your Singer Featherweight

Dating your Singer machine

    AA....1924
    AB....1926
    AC....1928
    AD....1930-34
    AE....1935-36
    AF....1938
    AG....1941
    AH....1947-48
    AI....1948 
    AJ....1950
    AK....1951
    AL....1953-55
    AM....1954-56
    NA....1951-52
    JB.....1945
    JC....1948
    W.....1954
    ED....1941
    EE....1947
    EF.....1949
    EG....1950
    EH....1951
    EJ.....1953
    ES.....1962
    EV.....1964
    White fw 1968 - 70


SINGER DATES
    N....1900 
    L....1901       
    K....1902
    B....1904              
    H....1906           
    D....1908
    G--0,999,999....1909    
    G--2,500,000....1910
    G--4,400,000....1913   
    G--6,500,000....1916
    G--8,500,000....1919   
    G--9,999,999....1921
    G--0,998,000....1924
    F....1924              
    Y....1925

Model    Years made  Comments

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15
15-13
15-90
24
24-50                treadle, small
24-80
27                   treadle
28-4                 hand-cranked, 3/4 size, vibrating shuttle
31kls                industrial
44kl3    1925        treadle
66                   treadle, drop-in bobbin
66-1                 treadle
66-4
66-6
66-16
99k                  3/4 size, hand-cranked or electric portable
99-13                knee-press
99k-28               portable
101
127                  treadle
128                  portable
128-13
132k6                industrial
185j     1960-62     green portable
191                  industrial
201
221      1933-56     featherweight
221-1       "
221b     1968-70     white  "
221j                 tan    ", beige
221k     1941-64     black  ", off white
221k1       "
221k5       "
221k7       "        white  "
221?        "        blue, green
222k     1941-64     free-arm
241-12               industrial
290
301      1953-59     slant needle; straight needle
301a        "        tan
301a        "        beige
319
327p                 plastic machine
328k
331k4                industrial
338                  turquoise
404
500a
591                  industrial, computer unit

In 1905 some Singer's were manufactured under the name of Wheeler
& Wilson


Factory designations
A       Anderson South Carolina
AP      Lagos Nigera
B       Bonnieres France
BE      Casablanca Morocco
BG      Bancock Thailand
C       Campinas Brazil
CH      Santiago Chili
Cy      Ratmalana Ceylon
E       Elizabeth NJ USA
F       Taytay Phillipines
G       Karlsruhe Germany
GH      Tema Ghana
H       Karachi Pakistan
HC      Chittigong East Pakistan
J       St Jaohns Canada
K       Clydebank Scotland
L       Bogota Colombia
LM      Kinshasha Congo
M       Monza Italy
ML      Petaling Malaysia
N       Taichung Taiwan
P       Penrith NSW Australia
PR      Lima Peru
Q       Johannesburg S Africa
R       Querataro Mexico
T       Delhi India
TN      Tunis Tunisia
U       Utsunomiga Japan
V       Buenos Aires Argentinia
VN      Saigon South Vietnam
Y       Maltepe Turkey
Z       Alcenon France