A German Torpedo

Under my needle tonight:
String blocks. 

☝🏻Two string blocks a day will keep the mess in the sewing room away. 

Tonight I'm treadling on my 1937 Haid & Neu "Torpedo", sewing some strings into blocks in order to keep the mess in the box under the cutting table away. 

Do Americans know "Haid & Neu"? This manufacturer from Southern Germany produced Singer machines after World War II. 

After the War the former Singer sewing machine factory in Wittenberg was in the eastern communist part of Germany. The Russians stripped all the machinery. By the way, that's the reason why Singer machines with a serial number beginning with C-.... can't be dated exactly. They are all built between 1908 and 1939. All the papers from the Wittenberg factory had been lost, too. 

After the war Haid & Neu produced Singer Machines, but still made Haid & Neu machines, too. The factory was taken over by Singer in 1958 and Singer 431G was made there. 

1982 Singer closed this factory.

☝🏻Please keep that information on German sewing machine history in mind. There will be a test!