Seidel & Naumann were another successful German partnership making everything from bicycles to early calculators.

Bruno Naumann founded his company around 1868-9 with financial help from his new partner, Seidel. 

They made beautiful sewing machines for decades reaching a peak around the later part of the Victorian era.

Their machines were sold worldwide through big stores like Gammages in London to little retailers and sewing shops like E G Benford in Brighton.

By the outbreak of the Great War they had made over 3,000,000 machines. Their London distributors were at Moor Lane, London.

Bicycles were their next big seller and at their peak they were making over 40,000 a year.

Seidel & Naumann machines often turn up in superb condition. Such were the quality of the machines they won medals in Vienna in 1873, Sidney in 1979 and Frankfurt in 1881.

Fancy a good read: Ena Wilf  & The One-Armed Machinist

A brilliant slice of 1940's life: Spies & Spitfires

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