Wind Engines in Britain
Amberley working Museum, near Arundel, West Sussex
Postcode: BN18 9LTwind engine by Duke & Ockenden of Littlehampton
[info]
[museum homepage]
Calbourne watermill, Isle of Wight
[info]
Charterhouse monastery, Horsham, Sussex
Éolienne Bollée No.1
- substantially complete; restoration under consideration
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Crux Easton, Hampshire
Wind engine by John Wallis Titt
- magnificently restored in 2002
[info]
[details]
[details]
[Grant approval - 1995]
[Opening report]
Halstead House Farm, Halstead, Tilton-on-the-Hill, Leicestershire
Postcode: LE7 9DJ19th Century wind engine
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Old Kiln Museum, Tilford, Farnham, Surrey
hybrid wind engine,
consisting of a Climax mechanism on a Duke & Ockenden tower
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The Bob Morse collection, Repps, Norfolk
a collection of restored wind engines
[related mention]
Historical locations
Bury St Edmunds
John Wallis Titt wind engine
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Chilworth Friary, Killarney, Ireland
Duke & Ockenden
[info]
Creech St Michael, Somerset
Halladay's patent design of 1854, as manufactured by Bury
and Pollard, Pollard Jephson and Co., Owens and Co. and others.
The last examples to survive complete were Angmering (now gone)
and Iwade (now restored by Bob Morse). Halstead House Farm,
Leicestershire, partially surviving, was another one of the same type.
[photo]
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Hawkinge, Kent
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Hinton Charterhouse, Avon
John Wallis Titt wind engine
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Marchwood Yacht Club, Southampton
Postcode: SO40 4UXJohn Wallis Titt wind engine
- purchased 1873 for £155, now long since disappeared
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Mow Cop, Staffordshire
John Wallis Titt wind engine
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The UK does not have the wide open prairies to be found in the USA,
Australia, or South Africa, and as such did not have huge quantities of
the metal windpumps which these countries tend to associate with the word
"windmill".
In the UK, these machines are generally called "wind engines", to distinguish
them from our windmills which (predominantly) grind grain.
Wind engines have 4 main distinguishing features:
- a tower which is empty of machinery, but just serves to raise the
wind catching mechanism into the wind
- fairly small power output
- a simple design suited to mass production
- an annular sail
Manufacturers
John Wallis Titt
The wind engines made by John Wallis Titt were some of the finest British
made wind engines.
[history]
[The company today]
[history (earlier location)]
[company archives]
[Simplex engine]
Duke & Ockenden of Littlehampton
Duke & Ockenden, commonly known as DANDO, produced wind engines from
at least 1869-1914. They still exist, but now are mostly concerned with
specialist drilling for water etc.
[company history]
[company archives]
Other links
Bibliography
- Bibliotheca Molinologica irregular publications of TIMS.
- Volume 3. J. Kenneth Major (ed.): The Windmills of John Wallis Titt. 37 pp. (1977).
- Volume 8. J. Kenneth Major; Gaucheron André: The Eolienne Bollée. 66 pp. (1985).
- Rolt Memorial Lecture, 1990 'Wind Engines' (J.K. Major),
AIA Industrial Archaeology Review vol XIV p55 onwards
- The Éoliènne Bolée at St. Hugh's Monastery, Cowfold.
Nick Kelly, and Ron Martin (1999).
Newsl Sussex Ind Archaeol Soc, 102, page 2
- The Competitive Testing of Wind Engines, J. Kenneth Major,
TIMS 10th International Symposium on Molinology, 2000
- Wind Engines, Suffolk Mills Group newsletter No 74, May 1999 p12-13
- Barn-Top Mills: A study of the agricultural wind engine, Gareth Hughes,
Proceedings of the Fourteenth Mill Research Conference 1996
ISBN 0 9509758 9 3.
- The Smaller English Windpump, Gareth Hughes,
Proceedings of the Fifteenth Mill Research Conference
ISBN 0 9530049 1 0.
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