In addition to the domestic hand and treadle machines the company produced a wide range of industrial models. GRAND TRIAL OF SEWING-MACHINES THE WILLCOX & GIBBS TRIUMPHANT IT IS DECLARED THE BEST MACHINE AND AWARDED THE HIGHEST PREMIUM THE TRIAL. The only major improvement was in 1875 when the glass tension discs were replaced with an automatic tension device which ensured the machine could not get out of adjustment. Right from the initial production the manufacturing of the Company's single thread, chain stitch machine was undertaken by Brown & Sharpe, Rhode Island and this continued up until 1948.Ī special hand crank mechanism was produced in England for the European market, but the general design of the Willcox & Gibbs remained essentially the same throughout its production. By 1871 the Company's Chief Office for Europe was at 150 Cheapside, London, this office was later moved (post 1885) to 94 - 96 Wigmore Street, then 37 & 39 Moorgate Street (by 1891 to post 1907) and later 20 Fore Street, London. Gibbs and James Willcox and opened its London Office in 1859 at 135 Regent Street. The Willcox & Gibbs Sewing Machine Company was founded in 1857 by James E.
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