machine number four. Delso

Delso, family deluxe.

Aka "Universal Sewing Machine Company" from Japan

Its a actually really an undercover

"Universal streamliner DST."

If she was a Woman she'd be very flirty, cheap but very cheerful you probably wouldn't take her home to your mum...

Can't find anything much on Delso research wise so probably a small production run, could this add to its value? Lets hope so.

She's certainly a pretty one finished in cream and pink, the oldest machine I have and dates around 1950.

So Just after WW2.

There is some conflicting information about the Universal sewing machine. Some say it was built by Standard, others by White and still a third party said it was built by an anonymous Japanese company after the war.

"excerpt of text taken from sewingiscool. com"

Again She's in very good condition and has the original manual and full parts list.

Apparantly the manual are quite scarce so a good find.

More about her later but for now some pics

Fitted with a new bulb, but its of the intermediate size (E17) not the usual small screw in jobbies.

She was probably imported and or distributed from Japan some time in the 1950's by R Blackwell & Co of London, hence the badge.

Most of the Universal Streamliner's that are on the internet are with pink bodies with a cream top, this is the opposite way round and looks much more pleasing to the eye.

As you can see the tensioner and thread pick up are to the front rear of the machine unlike the more usual front mounted ones.

It would be nice to know how many where producer, but I guess it could be as few as 100 purely because this was apparantly the minimum amount you had to order If you wanted your own name/emblem on the machine.

The serial number bring up no clues either.

There was a rumour that the universal sewing machine company company used to be owned by singer, others say that they are the same as the brother models.

Pretty in any case

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