Victoria Automatic Sock Knitting Machine

DESCRIPTION

TitleVictoria Automatic Sock Knitting MachineDatec.1900DescriptionVictoria Automatic Circular Sock Knitting Machine and Parts.

1. Sock Knitting Machine bench model
2. Cardboard covered worksheet book.
3. Auto knitter instruction book by David D Walder.
4. 1 cardboard sock template.
5. 1 original James Foster Victoria Automatic Improved Knitting Machine Instruction Book and two copies of the Instruction Book. Three Letters from Foster Knitting Machine Co - 1931, 1952, 1985 and handwritten notes.
6. Metal part - buckle
7. Two original sock machine step needle cylinders
8. Two rings to suit clamp ring belts.
9. Clamp with screw wing nut green painted.
10. Clamp cast rusted.
11. Dial cast part.
12. Two wooden cotton reel holders.
13. Wooden sock darner mushroom shape.
14. Technical books
15. Ribber Arm Brass.
16. Yarn winder cast iron leather belt wood handle.
17. Six weights cast iron.
18. Two weight stands cast iron base - steel wire hooks.
19. Oil can soldered tinplate brass tip.
20. Needles (Six tins).Makers MarkFoster Knitting CoProvenance and SignifcanceThis sock machine was owned and used by Mary Thomas (nee James) to knit socks for soldiers as part of the volunteer effort for WWI.

Mary and Harry (Henry) Thomas and their children lived at 'Clover Hill', Macquarie Pass before moving to 'St Ive's farm at Croom.

Mary James was the daughter of William James of 'Bravella', Dunmore.

Harry Thomas was the son of Sarah and William Thomas who came to work for Henry Osborne at Marshall Mount.

The Sock Machine is a rare example as many machines were melted down for munitions during WWII.

CHARACTERISTICS

MaterialCast Iron.DimensionsMachine 130cm x 70cm x 60cm

CLASSIFICATION

PrimaryTextile MachinerySecondaryKnitting Machines

CONNECTIONS

CollectionObjects'Clover Hill' - Feature CollectionFamilyThomasJamesLocalityMacquarie PassCroomPersonJames, WilliamThomas, HenryPlaceClover HillSt Ives

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Victoria Automatic Sock Knitting Machine