Australian Windmills

Date: 10 Jun 2020 [unknown]
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Surnames/tags: Australia Windmills Queensland Welcome to Australian Windmills. A little study on our "iconic" Australian Windmills

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• Windmills were a necessity to pump water from the Great Artesian Basin, to enable agricultural expansion in Australia. Although Windmills have been built in many forms around the world, to gain access to underground artesian water, a specific type of Windmill was needed. Up until the 1890's many Windmills were made of wood. While Windmills were also imported from overseas, there were many minor manufacturers and several larger family companies who first built Windmills in Australia during the 19th Century....these included the Metters family, who made the Metters brand windmill in Melbourne, Victoria, ... Archie Bryan at Colac in Victoria,...James Alston in Victoria,.... John Henry Saunders of the Speedy Windmill Co. in South Australia,.... the Griffiths family, who made the Southern Cross windmill in Toowoomba, Queensland and the Sidney Williams' family who built Comet windmills, founded in Rockhampton, Queensland in 1879..

• Windmills are still used in Central Australia to water livestock, however many are rusting and rotting where they now stand.
• Wind Powered Water Pump Systems for Livestock, pdf.
• Windmills were also used to fill Water Tanks beside railway tracks to provide water for Steam Locomotives.
• Steam Locomotive
• Preserved Locomotives
• There are three surviving Wooden Windmills. One is a restored model in Ravenswood, Queensland.
• Wooden Ravenswood Windmill

Old Toowoomba Windmill.

Locomotive & Water Tank.

• Windmills

1. Windmills pdf
2. Australian windmills pdf
3. Windmills
4. Comet Windmill Price List
5. Restored Windmills
6. Sydney Windmills

• • The Steel Wings Windmill is one of two surviving examples in the world, built in 1910 of a radical design with the fan supported inside a frame which pivoted in the wind. Patented by Catherine Jane McMaster of Queensland, in 1905 and constructed in Sydney by the Steel Wings Windmill Co. Only six windmills were ever erected and only two restored examples exist in Queensland and New South Wales. Sadly Catherine passed away in 1907 and never lived to see all her windmills built.
• Steel Wings
• Steel Wings Windmill
• Jerilderie, Wings Windmill
• The only Australian Windmill Patented by a Lady

Steel Wings Windmill.

• • Queensland, Australia.
• Griffiths family, Southern Cross windmill.

Southern Cross.

1. History of the Windmill
2. Disappearing windmills
3. Southern Cross
4. Buying back Southern Cross
5. Southern Cross Windmills
6. Toowoomba Foundry, Griffiths Family
7. George Washington Griffiths, Grace's Guide
8. George Washington Griffiths, ADB
9. John Alfred Griffiths, ADB

• Sidney Williams and Co., Comet windmill.

Comet.

1. Comet
2. Big Ones

• Burns and Twigg. William Burns and Edward Foster Twigg...Rockhampton.

• • New South Wales, Australia.
• John Danks. N.S.W. died 1902. son.. Sir Aaron Danks.

• • Victoria, Australia.
• Metters family, Metters windmill.

1. Frederick Metters
2. Frederick Metters, Wikipedia

• Bryan Brothers, Cyclone windmill.

1. Bryan Brothers
2. Bryan Brothers

Metters.

• Ernest Jones previously a partner with the Bryan Brothers.
• Robert William Brown. Brown Brothers..Victoria.
• James Corbett. born 1841, died at Beeac, Victoria in 1921.
• George Fortescue. Economy Windmill, Shepperton, Victoria.

• James Alston, Gearless windmill.

1. James Alston, ADB
2. Alston Gearless Windmill

• • South Australia, Australia.
• Speedy Windmill Co.

1. John Henry Saunders who was killed in 1939.

• • Western Australia, Australia.
• Acme Windmill Manufactured by Malloch Bros Ltd.

• • Others.
• John Abraham Everlasting Windmill.
• Arnie Aldous

Sources

• Windmill Manufacturers

Acknowledgements

• Wikimedia Commons for Images.