Posted 1 year ago
keramikos
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I was idly watching an old movie (not an unusual pastime for me) when I thought I caught a glimpse of a vintage Elna, so I backed up the movie for a closer look.
Not so, grasshopper (yeah, I know that's a bad pun). It was something called an "MIP." Wut?
My usual go-to online sources had bupkes, so I had to dig a bit more, but finally pieced together some information.
MIP stands for Mécanique Industrielle de Précision. It was a relatively short-lived business entity that started in 1928. Originally, they made movie projectors, but in 1946 began making sewing machines. They stopped making them in 1966.
A French vintage sewing machine enthusiast described this MIP central bobbin sewing machine as a Singer model 15 clone (despite the forward-facing tension disc assembly).
IMAGE CREDITS:
https://archive.org/details/le-bonheur-agnes-varda-1965-subt.-espanol
REFERENCES:
https://archive.org/details/le-bonheur-agnes-varda-1965-subt.-espanol
http://projecteur.mip.free.fr/hist.htm
https://lamachineacoudre.forumactif.org/t88-mip-mecanique-industrielle-de-precision
https://lamachineacoudre.forumactif.org/t2537-mip-fabriquee-a-tulle-en-correze