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Gustav Winselmann Gmbh. The production of sewing machines by Gustav Winselmann started in 1892 in the town of Altenberg and continued until there until the Second World War. The roots of the business can be traced back to the Clemens Muller Co. Where Leopold Oskar Dietrich, Hermann K hler and Gustav Winselmann all worked. The company was a mixture of three giants in the German sewing machine industry all eventually selling machines under their own names. They were L O Dietrich, G Winselmann, of the Titan mark, and H Kohler. The three men had all worked together at the giant Clemens Muller Sewing Machine Factory in Dresden.
- Recently my neighbor gave me a German made Winselmann treadle.It hasn't been used for over 50 years,(I think it's over 100 years old by the low serial number).I don't have a manual for the treadle,I think it works similar like an old Singer treadle.
- Research shows this machine was made for Sears in 1955 and originally came with about 12-15 accessories.so this looks like about average number of extras. You have a manual but just in case someone reading this post needs a manual here is a link to a free pdf copy.
- Winselmann: Serial No. This is an example of the company's High Arm Family machine probably produced in 1900. There is a central boss with the company details round the outside in the centre of which is a shield with W G. Which is reminiscent of the Wheeler & Wilson machine boss.
Desperately seeking manual in ENGLISH (Moderated by Sharon1952, EleanorSews)
Skill: Beginner
I really need a manual or at least a COPY of one in English.
Finding one online will make you a Google God IMO.
Help please!
Skill: Intermediate
Skill: Intermediate
The reason Gritzner made that model for White was that White didn't make any zig zag sewing machines at the time.Sears sold White sewing machines that were actually made by Gritzner.The Lady Kenmore is one of famous sewing machines made by Gritzner.The Pfaff 280 is the same sewing machine,only the color is different.
Usually one can find White sewing machine manuals at the Singer site,if one has the White sewing machine model number.Because the sewing machine model you have was made by Gritzner in Germany,the manual might not be available at the Singer site.Maybe you can find a manual for sale somewhere online,once you find a model number somewhere on your sewing machine.
Here are 8 more pictures,including sewing machine manual pages 1 and 2 you can enlarge when you click on the picture.
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Skill: Advanced Beginner
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Skill: Advanced
Maybe there was never any real English written manual for it even. I'm thinking that could even be, just because even on the timing of that machine, you had Gritzner, then went to Gritzner-Kayser, then just about around there, you had Pfaff even buy them up.
The machine is not all that different than a Pfaff 130 that even Pfaff was trying to sell overseas in USA about at the same time. And I think it would have been more important for them to even sell their own Pfaff 130 to people that spoke English at that point, so probably not even in their best interest, to sell it and import that other one you got, with an English written manual at all.
Skill: Intermediate
Many sewing machines came to North America with either people visiting Europe and bringing a European model sewing machine back home or immigrants brought them,before they were imported.I remember reading a book,early settlers brought different brand sewing machines to North America too.In my neck of the woods I find a lot of old British made Singers.
Recently my neighbor gave me a German made Winselmann treadle.It hasn't been used for over 50 years,(I think it's over 100 years old by the low serial number).I don't have a manual for the treadle,I think it works similar like an old Singer treadle.
Skill: Beginner
Skill: Intermediate
There is an English manual as the link in the second reply illustrates. I'm just trying to find a copy of it.
What is the model number on your Gritzner treadle ?
I have an antique Gritzner hand crank sewing machine,it can sew beautiful stitches.
Skill: Beginner
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Skill: Beginner
Winselmann Sewing Machine Serial Numbers List
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The production of sewing machines by Gustav Winselmann started in 1892 in the town of Altenberg and continued until there until the Second World War.
The roots of the business can be traced back to the Clemens Muller Co. where Leopold Oskar Dietrich, Hermann K�hler and Gustav Winselmann all worked. They left Clemens Muller in 1871 to found their own workshop for the manufacture of sewing machines in the Meushchee brush factory under the name Dietrich & Co.
Their first model was produced a few months later under the name ‘Allemannia’ and by the end of the first year, approx. 300 had been made.
After some disagreements between the partners, Dietrich resigned in 1873 and the company was renamed 'Kohler and Winselmann'. In 1877 the factory was moved to a new location is Kotteritzerstrasse (now Kathe-Kollwitz-Strasse), Altenberg.
In 1891, Gustav Winselmann also left to start his own factory, known as ‘Gustav Winselmann Gmbh.‘ The factory was located in Zwickauer Strasse, Altenberg in what had previously been a hat factory. It is said that by 1913 Winselmann had produced one million sewing machines of various types. The factory underwent several major expansions, until by 1927 230+ workers were employed. After the Second World War, the company did not restart manufacture.
Many of the Winselmann models were known by the name ‘Titan’.
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Kohler continued the manufacturing of sewing machines as Hermann Kohler AG employing around 800 workers by 1927.
Winselmann Sewing Machine Serial Numbers And Dates
After leaving the original partnership, LO Dietrich went on to found the Vesta Sewing Machine Works in 1875. By 1927 this sucessful business employed over 1250 workers. At the end of the Second World War Altenberg was in East Germany and the company was nationalized. After 1947 when production was slowly restarted, it was known as VEB Nahmaschinenwerke Altenburg.