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Old 03-05-2008, 09:01 PM
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Originally Posted by blue_lateral View Post
The CTC-15 is probably the most cloned thing on the planet.
There were lots of clones of the CTC-15, that's sure, but my nomination for most-cloned manufactured product would probably go to the Singer Model 15 sewing machine.

[Hmm. Interesting that both product numbers involve "15".]

Singer themselves made the 15 (with some incremental improvements and changes in finish/styling) from 1879 to at least the 1960's (!), thus making it their longest-production model, but it spawed *gobs* of clones, many from Japan. Find any Japanese-made sewing machine from the 1950's or 60's, and there's probably at least an even chance it's a Singer 15 clone.
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