TRADITIONAL SPINNING WHEEL TIMELINE 1940 1942 1943 1964 1940 - Ashford “Homecraft” spinning wheel 1942 - Ashford “Homecraft” spinning wheel 1943 - New Ashford flyer 1964 - Straight spokes, simple maid with double drive flyer. with pig tail flyer. with single drive allowing uprights, leather bearings, quick and easy bobbin hub screwed together. change without removing the drive belt. A patent pending was granted. 1965 1975 1981 1982 1965 - Three knob spoke, 1975 - Hard-wearing and 1981 - Two speed flyer with click-fit flyer 1982 - Double drive with Scotch tension simple maid uprights, consistently high quality nylon, bearings allow the bobbins to option. Spokes and maid leather bearings, hub impregnated with graphite, be changed without turning uprights have more detail. screwed together. replaces the leather as the flyer the maid upright. Tension Ashford logo is a circle of bearing. A spring supplants knob is located on the front of “A”s in the shape of a wheel the rubber band on the scotch the maiden bar to be closer to branded on the single leg. tension. Spokes have single the spinner. The crank is now bump. one piece with a cotter pin securing the con rod in place. The wheel is finger-jointed for extra strength. 1983 1989 1991 2008 1983 - Nylon bearings introduced on 1989 - Three speed flyer. 1991 - Barrel shaped self- 2008 - Ball bearings for bobbins. Treadle board supplied aligning wheel bearings effortless treadling. assembled onto the treadle introduced. rails. Single bolt and barrel nuts used to assemble frame. Leather conrod joint replaced with round polyurethane connector..