Other Bradbury Sewing Machines
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The Company is known to have produced the following sewing machines but little more is known:
The Empire 1862. Exhibited at the Great Exhibition of that year. Invented by Joseph McCrossan of Glasgow, it used no cams to produce the different movements.
There is a reference to Bradbury manufacturing a shuttle machine but the patent for it being upset in 1864 unfortunately the machine concerned is not identified.
The Magic A single thread chain-stitch machine made c1877 - c1884 priced at £2 2s 0d
The Princess Beatrice c1877 this is thought to have been a chain stitch machine and possibly the same as the previous machine.
A Plain Spool machine referred to as "old style" dating to c1878
A Wax Thread machine dating to c1878
No. 7 Machine this is referred to in a testimonial from Redman Brothers, Salem Mills, Hebden Bridge. Bradbury's had supplied 24 No. 7 machines and a further 144 were on order. Redman Brothers were Manufacturers and Wholesale Clothiers.
Finally there was an alternative version of the Wellington, apparently it was similar to a Dolly Varden. It may have been made by Johnson Clark & Co, Orange, Massachusetts, U.S.A. and it has U.S. patents, but it also has a brass boss with the Bradbury Trade Mark.
Any additional documentary information about any of these machines would be of great assistance. Please email us at: bradbury1852@lineone.net
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