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Dating Information Models: 301, 301A, 401A, 403A, 500A and 503A Singer only has 3 Years of Issue: NA-1951 NB-1956 NC-1961 This is not completely accurate! Please Keep Reading! When it comes to Anderson, South Carolina Singer only lists 3 Years of Issue for all NA, NB and NC serial numbers that include Models 301, 301A, 401A, 403A, 500A and 503A.
These years are not completely accurate and are only the years of the entire allotted serial numbers; NA-1951, NB-1956 and NC-1961. Nick and norah ost rapidshare download. What happened to the years 1952, 1953, 1955, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1962 and 1963.
Singer along with the Berlin-based agency 'Culture Management Berlin' created a database of Singer sewing machine world productions in 2000 and 5 years later the list was finally finished and published in 2005. This database is the first and only complete database of Singer sewing machines productions in the world.
There is no other list! Copyrights are owned by the Berlin-based agency 'Culture Management Berlin'. A joint licensing agreement for offering this entire database on the Internet, print media is only between the Culture Management Berlin Germany and the Singer Corporation NV USA.
Licenses can be purchased only through the agency 'Culture Management Berlin'. You can use the lists for private use. Commercial use is prohibited. The only production records from the Anderson factory is in 1951 when a limited edition of only 10,000 Singer Model 301 sewing machines were manufactured for the Centennial Year Celebration. There are absolutely no production records from 1952 to 1963. It is therefore my goal to establish a database of serial numbers for the above models and create an accurate Year of Issue, which is the year of manufacture or year your sewing machine was actually made.
Singer - Machine Serial Numbers Up to March 1996 you could call Singer Customer Service with your serial number and they would give you a 'Birth-Date' of 29 May 1951 for models 301, 301A, 401A and 403A. Strangely, it included all 'NA' and 'NB' serial numbers regardless of model number.
From April 1996 to 2005 Singer Customer Service used the Sewing Machine Blue Book dates of 1953-1959 for all 'NA' and 'NB' serial numbers. From 2005 to present-day, Singer again changed the dating of serial numbers to a new 'Year of Issue' with NA-1951, NB-1956 and NC-1961. You can look at the Machine Serial Numbers: Two Letter Prefix, Note: For all other models from 2005-2011 Singer used the 'Culture Management Berlin' list. This still seemed to confuse owners because it would show the allotted quantity and allotted date for each model. What owners did not understand was that it was only the allotted date and not the date their sewing machine was made. It could take as much as 2 to 3 months and sometimes longer before the allotted quantity was actual made.
Because of this confusion and in the best interest to owners Singer in 2011 deleted all the records and changed it to the present-day 'Year of Issue', the same way as all slant-needle models since 2005. There is no Singer Vintage sewing machine that has an actual date that it was made, only allotted. For Singer's 160th Year Anniversary they launched a new Website On August 12, 2011 Singer launched that offers a facility for consumers to uncover the history of their personal Singer household sewing machine and discover the year it was issued. Singer will issue an acknowledgement certificate that you can print out with your name, serial number and year of issue for all Singer model sewing machines. If the owner of any Slant-needle model sewing machine inputs their Serial Number they will receive a.pdf certificate, but guess what?
If you have a 'NA' serial number it will have a 'Year of Issue of 1951'. If you have a 'NB' serial number it will have a 'Year of Issue of 1956'.
If you have a 'NC' serial number it will have a 'Year of Issue of 1961'. What this tells us is 1 million 'NA' serial numbered sewing machines were manufactured in 1951, 1 million 'NB' serial numbered sewing machine were manufactured in 1956 and 1 million 'NB' serial numbered sewing machine were manufactured in 1961. This is simply not true! They were allotted in those years and only a selected few slant-needle models were actually made in those years.
Anderson, South Carolina Singer had one United States manufacturing factory, Elizabethport, located in Elizabeth, New Jersey. All sewing machines manufactured their never had a suffix after the model number. After 1900 all models manufactured overseas now included a suffix after the model number to denote the place of manufacture.
Example would be a 222K, manufactured in Kilbowie, Scotland. Singer opened the Anderson, South Carolina plant to manufacture the new slant model sewing machines, i.e., 301, 301A, 401A, 403A, 500A and 503A.
When the Anderson factory started manufacturing the Singer 301 it did not include any suffix on the Model Tag. This created confusion to where the 301 was actually manufactured and beginning in January 1953 the Model Tag Number now included the suffix 'A' to denote it was manufactured at the Anderson, South Carolina, hence the Singer 301A. After the last Singer Model 503A sewing machine was manufactured in 1963 the Anderson plant stayed open for many years with 3 manufacturing lines: Sewing Machines, Floor-care products (vacuum cleaners) and Power Tools. The 'Athena' electronic sewing machine was also made at Anderson.
In August 1988 Singer completed the sale of its two South Carolina plants, Pickens and Anderson factories, which had about 2,500 employees total, to Ryobi Limited of Japan. (Ryobi Corporation) This was several years after the Elizabethport factory located in Elizabeth, New Jersey closed down on 1 December 1982. The myth about the 301 being made in Elizabeth, N.J., is simply not true! The myth about the Anderson factory closing down in 1959, is simply not true! The myth about the 'A' added because the Anderson factory burned down, is simply not true! Submitting your Serial Numbers When it comes to figuring out a correct 'Year of Issue' for all slant-needle models there was only one way.
Gathering information and by acquiring serial numbers to create a database for each model. The database includes, model, color, serial number, original purchase receipts, instruction manual copyright date and revised dates plus other information that is relevant. With this information I was able to create a 'Year of Issue'.
NA-1951 (Singer Allotted 1 million Serial Numbers) The Anderson factory did not manufacture 1 million 'NA' serial numbered sewing machines in 1 year, 1951. 'Only 10,000 'NA' serial numbers were manufactured in 1951' Singer Model 301, 301A, 401A and 403A all have 'NA' serial numbers! NB-1956 (Singer Allotted 1 million Serial Numbers) The Anderson factory did not manufacture 1 million 'NB' serial numbered sewing machines in 1 year, 1956. Singer Model 301A, 401A and 403A all have 'NB' serial numbers! NC-1961 (Singer Allotted 1 million Serial Numbers) The Anderson factory did not manufacture 1 million 'NC' serial numbered sewing machines in 1 year, 1961. Singer Model 401A, 500A and 503A all have 'NC' serial numbers. Information for Singer 401A & 403A Owners 'Year of Issue' for the Singer 401A, 403A: Location: Anderson, South Carolina Singer Model 401A Singer Model: Serial Numbers: Manufactured Year & Location: 401A NA500000 to NA7 Anderson, SC (Start of 401A) 401A NA700001 to NA9 Anderson, SC 401A NB300001 to NB6 Anderson, SC 401A NB700001 to NB8 Anderson, SC 401A NB800001 to NB9 Anderson, SC 401A NC000001 to NC1 Anderson, SC (End of 401A) Total Singer 401A: 1,000,000 from 1956-1961.
The Singer 401A was being manufactured in 1956, introduced and sold in 1957. The 1st instruction manual has a copyright of 1957.
Singer Model 403A Singer Model: Serial Numbers: Manufactured Year & Location: 403A NA900001 to NA9 Anderson, SC (Start of 403A) 403A NB600001 to NB7 Anderson, SC 403A NB900001 to NB9 Anderson, SC (End of 403A) Total Singer 403A: 300,000 from 1958-1960. Serial Numbers: NB200001-NB300000 are unassigned. (Left over from 301A). The Singer 401A and 403A have serial numbers that start with 'NA' and 'NB'. Both of their serial numbers start after the last 301A in 1955 for 'NA' serial numbers, and after 1956 for 'NB' serial numbers. This lets us know that the Singer 301/301A has a complete sequence of serial numbers. Information for Singer 404 Owners All Singer 404's have correct records because they have serial numbers from Elizabeth, New Jersey.
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They were manufactured in 1958 to 1960, with a small lot of 1,500 in 1963. There was no Singer 404A but there was a 404G manufactured in Karlsruhe, Germany. Singer Model 404 Singer Model: Serial Numbers: Manufactured Year & Location: 404 AM837800 to AM8 Elizabeth, New Jersey (Start of 404) 404 AM891700 to AM9 Elizabeth, New Jersey 404 AM954511 to AM9 Elizabeth, New Jersey 404 AN000001 to AN0 Elizabeth, New Jersey 404 AN075280 to AN1 Elizabeth, New Jersey 404 AN212995 to AN3 Elizabeth, New Jersey 404 AN465662 to AN4 Elizabeth, New Jersey Total Singer 404: 401,500 from 1958-1960, 1963. The new Singer 404 sewing machine replaced the Singer 301/301A.