Davis Sewing Machine Company
The Davis Sewing Machine Company began in 1868 in Watertown, New York, and later moved to Dayton, Ohio in about 1890.
[1]==History== Davis sewing machines had conventional four motion feed (invented by Allen B. Wilson and used in most other machines) as it is the needle bar and presser foot that moves the cloth forward so it is sometime referred to as a walking foot or vertical feed machine.
The Davis Sewing Machine Company operated under this name until 1924, but as early as 1892 the manufacturing of bicycles was added to the production.
Histories from the Dayton Daily News indicated that the bicycle manufacturing was so successful that the production of sewing machines was gradually phased out. The Huffman Manufacturing Company was formed as a sales outlet for Davis Sewing Machine company service parts.
In 1924, the Davis Company's assets were liquidated. At that time, the company employed 1,800 workers.
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A rare Davis vertical feed machine from around 1890.
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