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Willcox & Gibbs Articles

Willcox and Gibbs Sewing Machine Patent Model
Enigma
What Willcox & Gibbs Sewing Machine is this?
The Grand Sewing Machine Trial
History
How Sewing Machines Form Stitches
The Singer Vibrating Shuttle, Wheeler & Wilson, Willcox & Gibbs
How to date your Willcox & Gibbs
Industrials
James Edward Allen Gibbs
James Gibbs' Other Chain Stitch Sewing Machine
He had another . . .
Knocking Copy
Mini-Range, Maxi-Sales
Other Willcox and Gibbs Sewing Machines
Martin Gregory discusses some lesser known W&G sewing Machines
Sewing Machines for Straw Hats
Some Thoughts on Willcox and Gibbs Domestics
Graham offers his thoughts ...
The UK Operation
In Today's Collection
Value for Money
Yelling From the Rooftops
Willcox & Gibbs Rival from the Big S
Singer's chainstitch sewing machine.
Singer's Competitors to the Willcox and Gibbs Automatic Chainstitch Sewing Machine
A bit more on Singer's chainstitchers.
What you got with a Willcox

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