Anybody remember Singer Instrumentation?

[vk6zgo]

The Singer family seem to be extraordinarily productive in the fields of Industry & Technology.

There are the Sewing Machine ones,way back,there were Singer cars,but the mob I am asking about made Electronic Test Equipment.

Back in the day,at least in the PMG's Dept/Telecom Aust,their stuff was nearly as common as HP & Rohde & Schwarz,particularly among the RadioComm crowd.

They seem to have sunk with nary a trace---never seen on eBay,nobody seems to have any of their spectrum analysers,etc.

I never used it myself,but it looked to be the same standard of quality as HP,R&S,& the other high end stuff.

Has anybody ever owned any Singer Test Equipment?

[alsetalokin4017]

I have an old Singer-Sensitive Research high-voltage voltmeter (ranges up to 15 kV or maybe 30 kV). Unfortunately it is up on a shelf that is blocked with other stuff and I can't get to it without cleaning up the lab... so that's not going to happen unless I really really need to use it for something.   

Googling it leads me to a blurry image of it from one of my videos!

[AF6LJ]

Sure do remember them.
I used a singer signal generator at a two way shop I worked at part time.
It was an HP-8640 clone.

[Bassman59]

The Singer family seem to be extraordinarily productive in the fields of Industry & Technology.

There are the Sewing Machine ones,way back,there were Singer cars,but the mob I am asking about made Electronic Test Equipment.

Back in the day,at least in the PMG's Dept/Telecom Aust,their stuff was nearly as common as HP & Rohde & Schwarz,particularly among the RadioComm crowd.

They seem to have sunk with nary a trace---never seen on eBay,nobody seems to have any of their spectrum analysers,etc.

I never used it myself,but it looked to be the same standard of quality as HP,R&S,& the other high end stuff.

Has anybody ever owned any Singer Test Equipment?

The Singer company was also into motors and such; all of the Black and Decker tools used to use Singer parts.

They also got into aerospace, and merged (bought?) Kearfott in New Jersey a few decades ago. Then it was bought by a corrupt corporate raider called Paul Bilzerian (who later went to jail, he was that bad). Ancillary businesses were shed to pay the debt incurred. Singer Electronic Systems, the aerospace component, was sold to Plessey in the UK, which was then absorbed by GEC, which was then taken over by BAE Aerospace.

[Davesaudio]

I do remember the Singer communications monitor in the two-way radio shop (summer job).

[IconicPCB]

I have a Singer Alfred Oscilloscope 8000 main frame with a Singer  Alfred Sweep analyzer model 7051 with a photocopy of the manual.

In essence a display section and a control section consisting ofa dual channel logarithmic amplier and reference attenuator set in need of an external RF sweeper.