To date your Singer Featherweight, you will need to locate the serial number on the bottom of your machine. It has two letters followed by a series of six numbers. Using the serial number you can use the charts below to find the date when your machine was given a batch assignment at the factory. Call Singer at its toll-free customer line at 800-474-6437. Provide the representative the serial number from your machine. Singer will be able to provide you with the model number and the year the machine was manufactured.

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The Singer sewing machine factory in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec, Canada was established in 1904 at a cost of $1,000,000. Production started in 1906 and continued until it was closed in 1986.

Aerial View of St. John's Factory

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The works was located between Saint-Louis and Saint-Paul and comprised of more than 18 separate fire proof buildings on 45 acres of ground. It had a floor area of over 12 acres and 5 miles of railway track were laid on the premises. At its peak in the 1950’s and 1960’s it employed around 3000 people.

Plan of St. John's Factory

This integrated manufacturing plant produced sewing machinery together with its associated wooden furniture. At one time only the needles were not manufactured in St. John’s and had to be imported. Machines made in St John’s were sold in Canada and also exported to the Philippines and Congo.

During 1954 when the plant celebrated its 50th anniversary, the plant employed approx. 1500 people under the management of the Works Manager, Ralph P Benn.

In later years part assembled machines were sometimes imported from the Kilbowie factory in Scotland to be finished off in St. John’s for the Canadian market. Some machines badged as being made in St John’s are known to have Kilbowie serial numbers.

Until 1924 serial numbers for machines made in Canada were issued by the Elizabethport factory in New Jersey, USA.

Elizabethport Issued Serial Number Dates were:

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After 1924 the St. John’s factory issued its own serial numbers which took the form of JA, JB, JC etc. followed by 6 digits starting at 000001 up to 999999. Also after this date, model numbers were identifed with a ‘J’ suffix after the Class number.

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Jx Series Serial Number Dates were:

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