•Vintage Antique WW2 Commodore Toyota Rare Sewing Machine 43 Precision Built Taiwan-Japan

•Description:  (PRE-OWNED Commodore Toyota Rare Sewing Machine 43 Precision Built Taiwan-Japan... Vintage sewing machine is in working condition, but I have only plugged it up once to test out... Not Familiar with Sewing Technique... Wire has been repaired once on Brown Dual-Plug Cord Attachment...

•World War II.  The Japanese economy needed rebuilding and the US government stepped in with financial and material aid.

•One of the US government's gifts was sewing machine manufacturing technology.  Someone saw an opportunity to capitalize on a lapse in  Singer's patent on the Class 15 sewing machine and a new industry was born!   Japanese manufacturers like Toyota cranked out millions of "15-Clone" sewing machines from the late 1940's into the 1960's.

•The Japanese machines were cheaper than their Singer counterparts and more colorful.   Singer was still clinging to Henry Ford's "You can have any color you want, as long as it's black" aesthetic. By comparison, the Japanese imports were exotic birds in brilliant colors and flashy chrome trim.

•Very few Japanese machines carry an identifiable maker's mark.  The machines were imported into the US in huge numbers and sold to US retailers under a wide variety of names.  Western Auto stores sold 15-clones under the "Wizard" name.  Montgomery Ward marketed theirs under the "Signature" name.

•It can be difficult to determine which Japanese factory produced the 15-Clone due to missing and incomplete factory records.  But it is known that Morse contracted with Toyota for the model 200