{"id":45,"date":"2020-01-07T16:38:22","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T16:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eyemaozi.org\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2023-07-11T07:42:15","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T21:42:15","slug":"artist-homepage","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/eyemaozi.org\/en\/artist-homepage\/","title":{"rendered":"Pinnock Fridor Australia the History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Vintage Sewing Machines <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Marketed as Australian made machines produced in South Australia. With colourful posters and advertising, who would not want to own an Aussie machine back in the 1950’s and early 60’s…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n\n\n

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Pinnock Factory History.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The published history of the Pinnock factory in area of Elizabeth, South Australia. Fact or a bit of a Furfy?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Post WWII was marketing and selling Japanese machine just not the done thing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Advertising materials, posters.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Australian advertising posters and magazine articles. Beautiful and so classic of their time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The American Morse machine.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Many of the Pinnock machines can also be found as Morse machines. My page shows some comparisons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pinnock Toyota Machines.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

These machines were made in Japan by Toyota, in the 1950s<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pinnock Trendsetters.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Trendsetter range of Pinnocks have a distinctive red Trendsetter badge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pinnock CFM.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Currie Furniture Manufacturing<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pinnock<\/strong> was a trade name CFM<\/strong> Industries bought in the late 1960s, they imported Japanese sewing machines, typewriters and other items.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Australian Made machine? <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Marketed as an Australian machine, but clearly imported and rebranded. True Japanese quality and even a bit of Dutch Euro quality thrown in.<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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