Remains of the Singer Factory Wittenberge, Germany - some images

[toxo]

Thanks Folker. Amazing stuff. How many machines were turned out daily in it's most productive time?

What resolution did you use to get so many pics in one post?

[Constabulary]

I do not know the output numbers. I´m "a bit" Singer crazy but I´m not really a historian. I know some facts but not really all details. I hope I can do the guided tour again one day. The tour guide said there are still old tunnels they have used for moving parts / machines between the different sections of the plant and they want to make them public one day - if possible (and safe).

I have used an external picture host (https://postimages.org) and have linked the pictures here. That was the fastest and easiest way to post a large number of pictures and that way I could put them all in 1 post.

BTW - found this picture on Wikipedia - seems it is pre 1928 because I cannot see the clock tower. Pic give a good impression of the size of the plant:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nähmaschinenwerk_Wittenberge#/media/Datei:Wittenberge_Singer-Nähmaschinenfabrik.jpg

 

 

Edited March 4, 2020 by Constabulary

[toxo]

5 minutes ago, Constabulary said:

I do not know the output numbers. I´m "a bit" Singer crazy but I´m not really a historian. I know some facts but not really all details. I hope I can do the guided tour again one day. The tour guide said there are still old tunnels they have used for moving parts / machines between the different sections of the plant and they want to make them public one day - if possible (and safe).

I have used an external picture host (https://postimages.org) and have linked the pictures here. That was the fastest and easiest way to post a large umber of pictures and that way I could put them all in 1 post.

BTW - found this picture on Wikipedia - seems it is pre 1928 because I cannot see the clock tower. Pic give a good impression of the size of the plant:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nähmaschinenwerk_Wittenberge#/media/Datei:Wittenberge_Singer-Nähmaschinenfabrik.jpg

 

 

I have an old copy of Fireworks MX that can degrade an image but I've never experimented with how much I can take out without making a difference. Clearly I can go a lot further as evidenced by your post.

[Gregg From Keystone Sewing]

Thanks for sharing, the images look a lot like part of Philadelphia here in the United States.

 

 

 

[mikesc]

Constabulary..the day that postimages.org closes ( and all the free image hosters do eventually ) all the images that you linked to in your post will disappear from the post here..I had not looked at the page source code before, so did not know that was what you had had to do.

So that we do not lose them..I have made screen captures at original resolution..including your text post and title..6 Screen captures were required to avoid the upload limit here..and I think that my screen capture script "tops" out at just below 60megs anyway..

I have tried to upload your total images as screen captures in 2, 3,4,5 and 6 "bites"..anything smaller than 6 "bites" and the site software throws an error..I originally only had to make 2 screen captures to get all your images, but I have been trialling and erroring for around 30 minutes for around 30 minutes now to get the site to play ball. HTH M :)

images are .png..you can zoom into them to see them at full resolution..smallest is about300kb..biggest is about 15megs..others are 7 megs or 10 megs or so

[mikesc]

Ha..just noticed that the "notification" that Greg had replied to the thread  got caught in the screen cap I made of your text, I was making them in reverse order last pics first..an extremely important email re a meeting early tomorrow came in on another machine and I was reding it when the screen cap of the text part of your post fired..Not worth me making another screen cap and editing..don't want to "push my luck" with the server about reloading a total of 60 megs of images on a edit..Especially as your original text in your post is still up there.

Ps..I hope that you don't mind that I screen capped all your images in that post to re-post..it was just that I hadn't heard back from you to my previous pm, so had no chance to broach the idea to you..Would have hated to lose the images when as they always do the links to "outside" went dead.

[Snakeoil]

Great pics! Thanks for posting. I am always saddened when I see once great industrial buildings/businesses reduced to ghost buildings.

The point made about free photo hosting sites is well made. Happened to me with photobucket.

[dikman]

A lot of forums got caught out with photobucket!! it made a lot of posts virtually useless overnight.