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While visiting Virginia, my wife and I stayed at the Big Walker Motel. The motel has a lot of interesting things around the parking lot such as this windmill.
The Woodmanse Steel windmills are probably the most common of the products from the Woodmanse Manufacturing Company that can trace their origins to the early history of this important windmill company at Freeport, Illinois. Introduced in the early 1890's, they remained on the market into the 1930's.
Harrison Woodmanse, the founder of the firm known as the Woodmanse Manufacturing Company, was born in Belmont County, Ohio, in 1836. There he grew up and attended school, leaving his home and settling at Freeport, Illinois in 1868. In that year he opened a "depot for the sale of agricultural implements," dealing heavily in the Marsh Harvester, seventeen hundred of which he sold in a period of six years. Using some of his profits, in 1872 he opened his own factory for the manufacture of farm implements, where he initiated the manufacture of a solid wheel wooden Woodmanse windmill which with modifications remained in production as late as 1930. Harrison Woodmanse operated his manufacturing business under his own name until the early 1880's, but by 1882 it had become the Woodmanse Wind Mill Company. The company kept this name until about 1885, when Woodmanse took a partner and the firm became the Woodmanse and Hewitt Manufacturing Company. Business continued growing for the Freeport manufacturer, with its windmills being sold farther and farther afield, even on the West coast as early as 1892. Then in either 1900 or 1901, the firm became the Woodmanse Manufacturing Company, the corporate title under which it continued to operate into the 1950's, when its manufacturing of windmills ceased. The first Woodmanse Steel windmills appeared on the market about 1892. The direct stroke pattern uses castings very similar to those on the earlier solid wheel wooden mills, while the back geared pattern differs considerably. The direct stroke Woodmanse Steel windmills, even though remaining on the market until 1930, today are comparatively rare. Much more common are the open back geared mills which currently are the mills most often seen in the field.
In the mid 1890's direct stroke Woodmanse Steel mills were made in 10', 12', 13', and 14' sizes while the back geared model was produced in 8' and 10' diameters. The Woodmanse firm also produced a special heavy duty mill introduced about 1895 and know as the Woodmanse Mogul. In the 1890's it was made in 8', 10', 12', and 14' sizes, but by the beginning of this century the 8' model had been dropped and a 16' size was added. By 1910, the Mogul had become the Woodmanse mill sold specifically for deep well pumping, or situations requiring large amounts of water. In 1920 its range of sizes included 10 1/2', 12 1/2', 14', and 16' sizes. The large size remaining on the market as late as 1938.
Both the Woodmanse Steel and the Woodmanse back geared mills remained on the market until 1930, when they were phased out of production.
Governing on all the Woodmanse Steel mills is on the same principal. The vane is set slightly to one side, causing the wheel to incline away from increasing wind. As this occurs, tension increases on a torsion governor spring mounted on the vane hinge, placing increased pressure to return the wheel to face the wind. When the mill governs out of the wind or when it is turned off from the ground a friction brake engages.
The wind wheel consists of curved galvanized steel blades attached with riveted steel clips to curved bar steel rims. The vane sheet is firmly attached to a two member angle steel vane stem which is mounted in a cast iron vane hinge at the head of the mill. The vane sheet bears the sole ornamentation on the mill, the black stenciled inscription of the manufacturer's name and location.
A surprising number of old Woodmanse Steel mills remain to be seen scattered about the plains and prairies. Introduced on March 1, 1923, the Woodmanse Oil Bath was the first self oiling windmill manufactured by the Woodmanse Manufacturing Company of Freeport, Illinois. The mills made with several mechanical modifications through the years, remained available into the 1950's, although their production was greatly restricted during the war years of the 1940's. Today the most common pattern of the mill is its back geared steel model. A number of variations are found in the back geared Woodmanse Oil Bath mills. The initial mills, termed Style E were produced from 1923 to 1926. These first mills were phased out of production in less than three years in favor of the Style G which was manufactured from 1926 to 1933, when a new Style GB was introduced. The Style GB with an altered vane and governor spring was made under contract by the Woodmanse Company, which distributed it as the New Eclipse during the 1930's. The GB pattern remained in production into the 1950's, but in July 1935 an additional Style J was placed on the market. The final new pattern available only in small diameter, is noted for having a steel hood with a curved profile instead of sharp rectangular hood used on the other Oil Bath mills.
The initial Style E back geared mills were made in 6', 8', and 10' diameters, but with their replacement by the Style G in 1926 a 12' size was added. All four sizes remained on the market until WWII.
The vane sheet bears the only ornamentation on the mill, the black stenciled words, "Woodmanse Oil Bath Wind Mill."
NILTC did a show at the Geneva history center, and one thing we did for them was that each of us made a historic building from Geneva. I picked this old dutch windmill. I stopped by the real windmill on the way home to shoot this photo.
For the show, I put it in the middle of my layout and gave it some juice: youtube.com/watch?v=Gp11XE4Y42E
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A rare and striking example of an early form of windmill.
Enjoy the remarkable experience of visiting one of the oldest surviving windmills in Britain. Pitstone windmill ground flour for the village for almost three hundred years until a freak storm in the early 1900s left it badly damaged. It was later donated to the National Trust and restored by a team of local volunteers.
As you walk around, wonder at the way the mill and its machinery balance on the head of a massive wooden post. Discover the tail pole which the miller had to wrestle with to turn the huge structure to face the wind. Explore the surrounding Chiltern Hills including stunning views from nearby Ivinghoe Beacon.