Contents of Past Issues

Volume 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

Volume 1. No. 1. February 2002

• Introduction to the magazine
• Metters Ltd. (The years before the Master Nuoil windmill)
• The Hoosier automatic windmill shutoff
• Is this the earliest recorded windmill in Australia?
• Windmill mysteries - No. 1
• Imported windmills - The Dexter windmill
• Date your Southern Cross windmill - 1921-1960

Volume 1. No. 2. August 2002

• Ancestors of the Southern Cross
• A bit of idle speculation on the Griffiths windmill
• Where did the big ones go?
• George E Fortescue & Sons IXL windmill
• Serial No's of SX windmills from Sept 1992
• Imported windmills - Woodin & Little
• Home-made windmills

Volume 1. No. 3. November 2002

• W.A. State Implement Works
• A Startling Experience at a N.Z. Railway Yard
• E. Hayes & Sons
• Imported windmills - The US Wind Engine & Pump Co
• Australia's first windmill
• The 1913 Southern Cross Direct Acting windmill
• Feedback
• More on Southern Cross Serial Numbers
• Classified Ads

Volume 1. No. 4. January 2003

• Windmill mystery - No. 2
• Early Days for James Alston
• The Metters Windmotor windmill
• The mighty railroad windmills - Papatoetoe - N.Z.
• The "Old Reliable Freeport windmill mystery
• Ratchet feed mills
• More on the Hayes windmills
• Windmill trivia
• Dating Aermotor oil bath windmills
• The Alston Patent security loop

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Volume 2. No. 1. March 2003

• Quite a Deviation - The Steel Wings windmill
• The first Griffiths windmill
• Feedback - Geo E Fortescue IXL windmill
• Imported windmills - Mast Foos and Company
• The G Pattern Southern Cross windmill

Volume 2. No. 2. July 2003

• Booth MacDonald & Co Ltd
• Ms McMaster of Corfield Queensland
• The Encased Gear Billabong windmill
• The Jerilderie Steel Wings windmill
• Update - Dexter windmill
• James Mires - windmill maker
• Book Review - Southern Cross Engines by Rob Laurent
• Updates

Volume 2. No. 3. September 2003

• W.D. Moore & Co
• Sad fate for a windmill
• A Booth MacDonald & Co iron windmill in Australia
• Museum notes
• Imported windmills - The Aermotor Company of Chicago
• Update on the State Implement and Engineering Works towers
• W.D. Moore & Co - Aermotor windmill parts
• How much do we know? - Not very much

Volume 2. No. 4. December 2003

• George Baker of Georgetown, South Australia
• Imported windmills - The Baker Manufacturing Company
• The Metters K Windmill
• Water Boring by hand

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Volume 3. No. 1. June 2004

• Geo E Fortescue & Sons Ltd
• Mr C.W. Snook
• Mr Frederick Bayley Deeming
• Variations in the 6 to 10 ft C Pattern Comet windmills

Volume 3. No. 2. August 2004

• The Eclipse Iron Works
• P & D Duncan Ltd
• Follow up - The Baker Manufacturing Co (USA)
• Charles Frederick Alger of Melbourne

Volume 3. No. 3. September 2004

• The C pattern Comet windmill, 16 ft to 30ft
• Update - variations in the 6 to 14 ft C pattern Comet windmills
• Update - imported windmills (1) The Dexter Windmill
• An Introdction to the Direct Action Metters Ltd windmills
• Competition for the windmill

Volume 3. No. 4. December 2004

• Alston open, single geared windmills
• The 1932 pattern Billabong windmill

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Volume 4. No. 1. March 2005

• Reid & Gray
• The Aldrich Wind Engine and Pump Manufacturing Co.
• Imported windmills (7) Lamb & Company
• A windmill of interest
• The 1903 pattern Southern Cross windmill

Volume 4. No. 2. June 2005

• The Defiance windmill
• Porritt & Co.
• The S Type Webb windmill
• Alston pumping aids

Volume 4. No. 3. September 2005

• The various A pattern Southern Cross windmills
• Malloch Bros Ltd. Acme windmill
• Updates

Volume 4. No. 4. December 2005

• The Metters Ltd Nuoil windmills
• Somebody made it but who?

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Volume 5. No. 1. March 2006

• Hudson Brothers LTD Clyde windmills
• Updates

Volume 5. No. 2. June 2006

• The Windmill Manufacturers of Balaklava, South Australia
• Mr Kilburn's windmill
• Restored and Semi-restored windmills on public display in Australia

Volume 5. No. 3. September 2006

• The Southern Cross 1911 Pattern Geared Windmill
• The 25ft and 20ft Southern Cross Windmills of 1912
• An Ingenious Pump Rod Adjuster - But!
• Unknown Mill and New Names to Ponder

Volume 5. No. 4. December 2006

• Some Early IBC Windmills
• Collectors Notes
• Update: Ms McMaster of Corfield
• Fitting Wind Wheel Balance Weights on a Direct Acting Windmill
• Bracing Oregon Pump Rods for IBC Windmills
• Goomalling Windmills

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Volume 6. No. 1. March 2007

• Imported Windmills - Pre Oil Bath - Stover Manufacturing & Engine Co
• Known Australian Manufacturers
• Linking the Windmill into Local History
• "Windmills On Show" - at Toowoomba
• Museum Addition

Volume 6. No. 2. June 2007

• Were There Two Variations of the Geo. E. Fortescue & Sons Ltd. Variable Geared Wind Engine?
• Update - O'Callaghan
• The Alston Gearless Windmill
• Report on Windmills on Show
• Updates - Griffiths, Eclipse Iron Works, State Implement Works, William McCook

Volume 6. No. 3. September 2007

• The Z Pattern Southern Cross Windmill

Volume 6. No. 4. December 2007

• Bryan Bros Windmills

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Volume 7. No. 1. March 2008

• The Influence of American Design on the First Windmills Made in Toowoomba & a General Look at Solid Wheel Vaneless Windmills
• Updates - Booth MacDonald & Co, The Z Pattern Southern Cross Windmill
• Life in the Country

Volume 7. No. 2. June 2008

• The R Pattern Southern Cross Windmills and an Introduction to the Story of Large Windmills in Australia

Volume 7. No. 3. September 2008

• The Riddle Brothers of South Australia
• Update - The Eclipse Iron Works

Volume 7. No. 4. December 2008

• The Introduction of the Sectional Wheel Windmill to Australia
• The Empire Windmill
• Alfred Shaw & Co
• Update - The Steel Wings windmill in Western Australia

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Volume 8. No. 1. March 2009

• The Mount Barker Iron Works - C. E. Dutch to Dutch Bros
• Alston's Patent Iron Windmills
• The Southern Cross Trademark
• Toowoomba Foundry Co Ltd - The First Windmill Patent of the Southern Cross Era

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