In 1939, the U.S. War Department contracted the Singer Sewing Machine Company to build 500 1911A1s. The contract, Educational Order W-ORD-396, was a test to see if Singer could produce 100 guns a ...

Image source, Getty Images. By Tim Harford. Presenter, 50 Things That Made the Modern Economy. ... Freed from legal distractions, the sewing machine market took off - and Singer came to dominate it.

The South Bend community has been home to many great industries over the years, including the Oliver Chilled Plow Works, Studebaker Corp., and the Singer Sewing Machine Co. Singer was founded in ...

When the facility opened in 1872, it was said to have been the largest factory in the world devoted to the manufacture of a single product.

ELIZABETH, N.J. — Over 100 firefighters battled a blaze Friday at a New Jersey industrial park that was home to the Singer sewing machine factory for more than a century. A passerby reported the ...

Freed from legal distractions, the sewing machine market took off - and Singer came to dominate it. That might have surprised anyone who had seen how his factories compared with those of his rivals.