Seidel & Naumann
Karl Robert Bruno Naumann
1844-1903
Saxonia Regia
Transverse Shuttle
One of the first New Family Seidel & Naumann sewing machines circa 1875 copying the Singer model 12 design on a smaller scale.
This is the only copy of the giant Hamburg St, Seidel & Naumann factory, that I have in my archives. The chimneys burned black day and night producing thousands of machines 24 hours a day.
The Seidel & Naumann bicycle of 1899, no brakes!
Their London distributors/agents were at 23 Moor Lane, London East Centre.
One of the later Vibrating Shuttle Seidel & Naumann sewing machines. Note the S&N on the bed of the machine.
Neumann Serial Number Date Range
The Seidel & NaumannIdeal typewriter had four model changes. Their folding Erika typewriter, named after Bruno Naumann's granddaughter, was still a best seller. The Erika No1 was the first folding typewriter in the world. Other typewriters followed like the Bijou in 1925, the Electric and the Gloria.
This is a picture of the amazing factory before its destruction in the Dresden Bombings and firestorm. Is that an early tank top centre? Or does it look more like an anvil?