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Thomas White started building sewing machines in Templeton, Massachusetts, in 1858 and moved to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1866. The White Family Rotary of the late 1890s became its most popular machine, built in one form or another into the 1950s, and from the mid-1920s White made most of Sears' sewing machines, badged Kenmore, Franklin or Minnesota. White was the first to use a crinkle finish, with scrollwork cast into the head instead of decals, and it even spun off a car company in 1906. After losing Sears, it became White Consolidated Industries, and Electrolux bought it in 1986. Everything on a White Rotary runs the other way from a Singer, down to the direction of the handwheel.
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