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AUSTRALIAN WINDMILL MANUFACTURERS - F - I

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FABRO WINDMILL

    - see - (A-B) BORMANN ENGINEERING.
    - see - (C-E) CHAPMAN & SAUNDERS.
    - see - (N-R) ROB'S WATER SYSTEMS.

FAIRBANKS MORSE AND COMPANY

    This American company took over control of one of the original US windmill companies in 1890. The original company befor various name changes had been L.H.WHEELER & SONS started in 1867. FAIRBANKS MORSE & CO were based at Beloit, Wisconsin.
   IMPORTED INTO AUSTRALIA or sold by

1. DANGAR, GEDYE, & CO. LTD    Sydney, New South Wales. - ECLIPSE windmill 1916 - 1917.
2. MALLOCH BROS    Perth, Western Australia. - ECLIPSE windmill 1916 - 1917.
3. WARDLE, Jas & CO    Adelaide, South Australia. ECLIPSE windmill 1916 - 1917.
4. WEBSTER & CO    Brisbane, Queensland. ECLIPSE windmill 1917.

• RAILROAD ECLIPSE WINDMILL    This was the name given to the large size ECLIPSE windmill. They got their name from their use in supplying water for the steam trains. They were made in sizes from 16 to 30 ft. Wooden fan and vane and direct acting. They were built from the 1870's until the end of WWI. Examples have been recorded in Australia.

FEDERATION WINDMILL

    - see - (J-M) METTERS LTD - K MODEL REBADGE.

FITZROY WINDMILL

    - see - (U-Z) SIDNEY WILLIAMS COMPANY.

FITZROY COMET WINDMILL

    - see - (U-Z) SIDNEY WILLIAMS COMPANY.

FLINT & WALLING MANUFACTURING CO

    1878 - early 1950's.Made in Kendallville, Indiana, USA. Their automatic windmill shut offs in both sizes were also imported.
    IMPORTED INTO AUSTRALIA or sold by

1. BARTRAM, J. & SON PTY LTD    586 - 588 Bourke St, Melbourne. STAR MODEL 12 - 1914 - 1919.
2. BATEMAN, J. & W. LTD    Perth and Fremantle, Western Australia. From at least 1900 - 1945. [STEEL STAR - 1900 - 1904] [STAR MODEL 12 - 1913 - 1919. STAR MODEL 24 - 1928 - 1934. STAR ZEPHYR - c1937.
3. BELL, James & CO    109 Fitt St, Sydney. STAR MODEL 12 - 1914 - 1919.
4. DANKS, John & SON PTY LTD    STEEL STAR windmill - 1904. This was sold prior to the advent of their own mills.
5. DUCAN LOANE    Esplanade, West Devonport, Tasmania. STAR MODEL 12 - 1914 - 1919.
6. SHAW, Alfred LTD.    Flinders St, Townsville, Queensland. STAR MODEL 12 - 1914 - 1919.

• STAR MODEL 12 WINDMILL    Open, twin geared windmill introduced in 1912. Marketed up to about 1926. Originally available in 6, 8, 10, 12, 14 and 16 foot with 18 and 20 foot sizes added a few years later.
• STAR MODEL 24 WINDMILL    Introduced in 1924 and remained in production until about 1937. Oil bath back geared windmill with an oil pump.
• STAR ZEPHYR WINDMILL    1937 - early 1950's. Produced in 5, 7, 8, 10, 12 & 15 foot. This twin gear oil bath model was the last windmill marketed by the company. Unusual design with blades which taper in width to the outside of the fan. The tail sheet is also unusual, being taller than it is wide.
• STEEL STAR WINDMILL    1892 - c1910.The first STEEL STAR windmill began production in 1892 and was the first all metal windmill produced by this company. It was an open back geared mill available in 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16 & 20 ft. All the STEEL STAR windmills employed counterweights for governors and bore a 7 sided star on their vane. There were several variations of the STEEL STAR and the versions imported are yet to be confirmed.

FLIRT WINDMILL

    - see - (J-M) METTERS LTD.

FLOOD, Frederick

    Windmill manufacturer of Melbourne, Victoria. Produced windmills 1893 - 1894.

FORTESCUE, Geo. E.& SONS LTD

    c1900 - c1940. George FORTESCUE was born in Shepperton, Victoria. He established his agricultural machinery manufacturing business about the turn of the century in Arncliffe, a suburb of Sydney. He was the initiator of the welded steel plate gearbox in Australia with the introduction of the ECONOMY windmill. The company was absorbed by the FEDERAL MACHINERY COMPANY c1940 and completely disappeared within a few years. Sold in W. A. by ELDER, SMITH & Co c1932.

• DREADNOUGHT WINDMILL    1916 -1919. Large direct acting self lubricating windmill. Available with windwheels from 20 to 40 ft. The 40 ft model was later dropped and the largest version was then the 35 ft model. An underslung slotted rocker arm was attached directly to the crank pin which moved in a slot in the arm which was pivoted well outside the main casting. The mill is recorded in advertising from January 1916 to April 1919.
• ECONOMY WINDMILL    Circa 1933. Appeared about 1933 and used an aerofoil bladed wind wheel. The gearbox was constructed of welded plate steel. Reduction gearing was used. Patent application numbers were listed on the hinged galvanised tin helmet. The windmill, for its size, had the main shaft well above the tower mounts to allow for the action.
• IMPROVED IXL WINDMILL    1923 - 1924. Advertising to date appears for only the years shown. The model was available with 14, 16, 20, 22, 25 and 27 ft wind wheels. It was a enclosed crank and pitman direct drive automatically lubricated design. The pump rod was centred from the eccentric crank by the use of an external pivoting bar. The square crank pin had a phosphor bronze bearing.
• IXL WINDMILL    1910 - 1925. Commonwealth Patent No 14762 of 1909 and 17828 of 1910, they were one of the first all enclosed but not oil immersed windmills in the world. The cast head had a separate main shaft casting which facilitated repairs. The drive was by a sprocket and chain which was kept in tension by an adjusting eye bolt. One chain link holds a crank pin which works a pitman arm. Unusual Australian mill also in that it used a side vane for windage. Fans up to 12 foot use 2 fan rings while those larger use 3 fan rings. Another unusual feature was the use of a shock absorbing pump rod device. Known sizes are 8, 9, 10, 14, 16, 20, and 22 foot.
• LITTLE BOSKER WINDMILL    1920. Appears to have been a small open direct action windmill made in only one size.
• VARIABLE GEARED WIND ENGINE WINDMILL    1912 - 1915. This was patented in 1912 and used a small auxilliary windwheel to operate a stroke changing mechanism through a chain and sprocket. It was awarded First Order Of Merit and Silver Medal at the Brisbane Exhibition of 1913. The mill was built with 16 and 22 ft wind wheels.

FRANCE & CO.

    Windmill manufacturer of Warwick, Queensland from 1890 - 1906. Patented the Warwick windmill in 1891. William FRANCE, William Henry WOOLLEY and Anton Henry Halgar NIELSEN started the business at a site adjoining the railway station in March 1890 and became known as the Warwick Foundry. From September 1893 the business changed to William FRANCE as a sole operator of the Warwick Foundry. He sold the business in 1906.

• WARWICK WINDMILL    1891 - 1906. Made in 12ft. & 14 ft. size windwheels. Solid wheel direct drive iron windmill on a wooden tower. A restored example is on display at the Highfields Pioneer Village, Toowoomba, QLD.

FRANCE, William

    - see - FRANCE & CO.

FULLER WINDMILL

    - see - FULLER, Caleb.

FULLER, Caleb

   This business was flourishing in 1921. At that time they sold windmills throughout the Wimmera and Mallee of Victoria, with some being erected in New South Wales, South Australia and King Island. FULLER also had several contracts to supply windmills to soldier settlement areas including the Terrinallum Estate. The largest known FULLER windmill was one of eighteen foot wind wheel diameter, which was erected on the Mount Noorat estate. It was pulled down prior to 1981. The factory was in Gray Street, Terang, Victoria. The business may have been continued on by his son Edward at his business at the corner of Baynes and Shadforth Streets, and a few mills were assembled by FULLER's grandson, Ross MURFITT who worked from that site Ca.1981.

• FULLER WINDMILL 1    Direct acting windmill which used a bent hub shaft for the crank.
• FULLER WINDMILL 2    Direct acting windmill which used a bent hub shaft for the crank with ball bearings both sides and another ball bearing in the pump rod to crank connection. Another thrust ball bearing at the base of the pipe stem was used to provide easy turning in the wind.

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GARRAWAY, George W.

    Manufactured a windmill at Bendigo, Victoria from 1911 to 1914.

GEM WINDMILL

    - see - (U-Z) US WIND ENGINE & PUMP COMPANY.

GODFREY and SONS

    They constructed seven windmills for Mr A. FALKINER, a sheep farmer on the Queensland, Darling Downs in 1882/3, and were in court in February 1883 attempting to obtain payment of �127/3/1 [about $254.31]. Richard GODFREY appears to have been the principal of the company. The defendant claimed that the windmills were not delivered within the agreed two week contract time. This point was disputed and in general it is difficult to assess which of the two stories was more correct. Twelve windmills were ordered according to the company. One was completed and delivered, two were sent to Jondaryan railway station and four other complete windmills were still at the company's foundry at the time of the court appearance. The castings were copies of an existing mill which Godfrey and Sons had access to. FALKINER by this time had ordered six unidentified windmills from Melbourne.

GOLDEN CIY IMPLEMENTS

    Windmill manufacturer in Bendigo, Victoria. Sydney OSBORNE, Richard AVARD and William MITCHELL commenced business in 1872 and were known as the CENTRAL FOUNDRY. They were soon in financial trouble and branched out into agricultural machinery before selling in 1889 to BRIGGS, SWALLING, WAKE & LEANEY, who renamed it GOLDEN CITY AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS. They began manufacturing windmills in 1908. The business was acquired by O.H OSBORNE in 1930.

• GOLDEN CITY WINDMILL    Open single geared design with the main gear mounted directly above the pinion gear. The main gear shaft was a crank which gave the stroke to the mill. Identical to BRYAN BROS design.

GOOLD SHAPLEY & MUIR COMPANY

    Canadian windmill manufacturer of Brantford, Ontario. Established in 1892 by E. L. Goold, W. H. Shapley, John Muir and Henry Heigh. The company ceased in the mid 1930's.
   IMPORTED INTO AUSTRALIA OR SOLD BY

1. CRIBB & FOOTE.    Of Bell and Brisbane Streets, Ipswich, Queensland. IDEAL and IMPERIAL 1910-1914.

• IDEAL    Single internal geared open back-geared steel windmill first manufactured in the early 1890's.
• IMPERIAL    Open back-geared steel windmill first manufactured just after the turn of the century. The Imperial won the famous 1903 windmill trials held by the Royal Agricultural Society of England.

GREGORY, H. P. & CO

    Address at 25 New Pitt St, Sydney. Imported the ECLIPSE windmill.

GRIFFITHS, Enoch J.

    Windmill manufacturer in Port Fairy, Victoria who produced windmills 1909 - 1911.

GRIFFITHS, Richard G.

    Windmill manufacturer in Warracknabeal, Victoria who produced windmills 1917 - 1920.

GRIFFITHS, Thomas

    This business was established in Scott Street, Warracknabeal about 1905, and by 1910 had an established name for the windmills produced there, as well as a reputation for acetylene gas installations and general plumbing work. Another source lists this name from 1913 - 1914.

GRIFFITHS, Thos & SON

    Listed as a windmill manufacturer in James St, Port Fairy, Victoria 1905 - 1908, and Warracknabeal, Victoria 1913 - 1914.

GRIFFITHS & ATHERTON

    c1871 - 1873. After emigrating from England in 1871 George Washington GRIFFITHS and his brother-in-law W. ATHERTON, set up an Ironmongery and Agricultural Equipment repair shop in Ruthven St, Toowoomba, Queensland. In 1873 ATHERTON left the partnership and shortly after John Alfred GRIFFITHS arrived and GRIFFITHS BROS & COMPANY commenced.

GRIFFITHS & DAWE

    Windmill manufacturer in Warracknabeal, Victoria who produced a windmill in 1915.

GRIFFITHS BROS & CO

    1873 - 1884. In c1873 GRIFFITHS and ATHERTON became GRIFFITHS BROTHERS. In 1874 they purchased two acres of land where the TOOWOOMBA FOUNDRY was to be built. The TOOWOOMBA FOUNDRY opened in 1876. In 1884 they became a public company called the TOOWOOMBA FOUNDRY and RAILWAY ROLLING STOCK MANUFACTURING CO. LTD. Up until this time the mills were usually made to order and the design frequently was modified to suit a customer's particular requirements. The mills and towers were predominantly of wood, with the wheel operating behind the tower.

• ECONOMY WINDMILL    1876 - c1885. Direct acting drive held into the wind with a fixed direction counterbalanced wooden tail which had to be manually furled. The wooden fan was made in various sizes - possibly up to 16 ft. The head pivoted on the tower cap on a large cast ball race. It was lighter than the GRIFFITHS windmill.
• GRIFFITHS WINDMILL    1876 - . The first four windmills known as GRIFFITHS were produced in 1876, to pump water on Jimbour station near Dalby, Queensland.
• TOOWOOMBA WINDMILL    1880's. Wooden paddle wheeled windmill manufactured in the 1880's. It used direct drive from a bent shaft crank supported at both ends. This shaft continued backwards to act as a counter balance for the weight of the wheel. There was an unusual counter balanced double vane which appears to be a wooden vertical "storm" vane mounted on the round arm of a much larger horizontal vane.

GRIFFITHS WINDMILL

    - see - GRIFFITHS BROS & CO.
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HALL, JACK

    He produced windmills at Beeac, Victoria, between 1922 and Ca.1939. All of his known windmills were of a double crank design. One mill photographed bearing his name is an oil bath type with a rounded appearance to the gearbox and cover, and with a bar holding a pulley extending well above the cover.

HALL & BURTON

    The Beeac Gala Week 1928 Booklet contained an advert for Hall & Burton windmills, Beeac.

HALLADAY STANDARD WINDMILL

    - see - (U-Z) US WIND ENGINE & PUMP CO.

HARRAP, A. & CO.

    Agricultural machinery merchant of Launceston, Tasmania. In October 1890 they displayed a Carlyle windmill, which won first prize, at the Northern Agricultural Society Show in Launceston.

HARRISON, ISAAC

    Isaac HARRISON was born about 1835. His business was established Ca.1863, but a site is not identified for it until 1870, when a house and shop at the corner of Scott and McNicol Streets, Camperdown appear in his name. By 1884 he had moved to a house and workshop on Manifold Street. The first collected record for Harrison windmills occurs in 1895. At that date MURRAY Bros of Mercer Street, Geelong are also advertising as makers of the Harrison windmill. As they had a foundry they may have supplied the cast parts. A sub branch was started at Cobden by Isaac's son George HARRISON Ca.1899. Isaac was buried at Camperdown in February 1903, and the business passed into George's name later that year. In 1913, both businesses were still in operation. The main premises and factory appears to have covered a considerable area. By then it was a large establishment selling a wide range of products including, items made in its factory. These included tanks, tinware, and windmills. About thirty tradesmen were employed by the company at that time. George HARRISON was eighty five when died in 1948. A closing date for the business is not known,nor the date of the last windmill production. HARRISON also sold other windmill brands.

• HARRISON WINDMILL

HARRISON WINDMILL

    see - HARRISON, ISAAC

HARRIS SCARFE, Geo. P. & CO.

   Addresses

1. Gawler Place, Adelaide. - 1881
2. Perth, Western Australia. - 1918
3. Fremantle, Western Australia - 1918

    - see - (A-B) BAKER MANUFACTURING COMPANY.

HARRIS SCARFE & SANDOVERS LTD.

    Harware and General Merchants, Engineers & Manufacturers.
Addresses

1. Head Office and Showrooms, Hay Street, Perth, Western Australia - 1950
2. Factories, Aberdeen and Newcastle Streets, Perth, Western Australia. - 1950
3. Fremantle, Western Australia. 1950
4. Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. 1950
5. London. England. 1950

• DEFIANCE WINDMILL    Circa 1939. These appear to have been made by or for SANDOVERS. ALTONA INDUSTRIES, c1928 apparently manufactured the DEFIANCE windmill, at their Wellington Street, Perth business for the company. Whether they were the fabricators for the life of the windmill is not known. The gearbox was electrically welded. It used machined gears. The reinforced wind wheel blades were the later version. It also used a ball bearing turntable and roller bearings for the hub shaft. This twin gear windmill came out in only 6 and 8 ft sizes until at least 1934 but was available in a 10 ft configuration by 1936. The crosshead guides were angle iron with a convex roller. The sail furled on a screw arrangement on the stub tower. A hub band brake was fitted to the 8 ft model. R. ROBINS claimed to have had a hand in its design. Advertising indicates that the use of ball bearings on the hub shaft was introduced in 1939. Examples exist with different bearing systems. Advertising from 1934 shows a much different hub with hooks to hold the spokes. - see - Defiance Windmill
• SWAN WINDMILL    Advertised the Swan windmill in Western Australia from October 1933 to January 1934. Appears to be an exact copy of an Aermotor. 8ft heads on 20ft., 4-Post towers were advertised.

HARROLD BROS.

    A photograph of the Adelaide Spring Show in October 1892 shows the Harrold Brothers display with an Iron Turbine windmill bearing "Harrold Brothers / Adelaide / Sole Makers" on the tail vane sheet, and the next collected advertisement for Harrold Brothers in March 1894, now only of North Terrace claims that they are the "Patentees and sole makers of.....Harrold's Improved Iron Turbine Windmill." Similar adverts appear until December 1894. Unless evidence to the contrary is available, this means that the windmills over this period were an Australian product.

HAYES WONDER WINDMILL

    - see - ERNEST HAYES [NZ] LTD
    Australian agents were PORT MACHINERY, a division of D.E.C. WEBER PTY. LTD.

HEPPEL, W. J.

    Of 146 Broome St, North Cottesloe, Perth, Western Australia. Applied for patents for wind power rotors c1950. Don't know if they were produced.

HERCULES WINDMILL

    - see - (A-B) BRUCE & McCLURE.
    - see - (F-I) INTERCOLONIAL BORING COMPANY.

HOOPER, E. J.

    Windmill manufacturer in Benalla, Victoria who produced a windmill - 1908 - 1909.

HORDEN, Anthony PTY. LTD.

    - see - (C-E) CHALLENGE WINDMILL CO.

HORROCKS AND CO

    Of William St, Perth, Western Australia. - 1886.
    - see - (U-Z) US WIND ENGINE AND PUMP CO.

HORWOOD, J. H. & CO.

    Operated from Currie Street West, Adelaide, South Australia in 1892. Company literature from 1894 suggests that the company was using the IDEAL windmill as a smaller line to accompany their larger ADELAIDE CHALLENGE windmill.
    - see also (S) STOVER MANUFACTURING and ENGINE CO.

• ADELAIDE CHALLENGE WINDMILL    Claimed c1884 - c1894. Sectional wind wheel design windmill. Windwheel sizes available included 14 and 25 foot. These were the two sizes the company said they were concentrating on in 1894.

HORWOOD BAGSHAW

• HORWOOD BAGSHAW TYPE K WINDMILL    Advertised 1950-1955. Rebadged METTERS K.
• IMPERIAL WINDMILL    Manufactured c1941.
• MASTER WINDMILL    Rebadged METTERS MASTER NUOIL.
• Unknown WINDMILL    Open gearbox windmill offered in the early 1920's.

HOWARD, J. & C.

    Advertised windmills in 1899. Address was 230 - 280 Pitt St, Sydney. In Wise's 1904 P.O. Directory for N.S.W. their address is listed as 280 Pitt St. Sydney. They were importers of the Perkins All Steel Windmill in 1904.

HOWIE BROS.

    Windmill manufacturer in Red Cliffs, Victoria who produced a windmill in 1930.

HUDSON BROS CO. LTD.

    Established in 1860 by William HUDSON & son Henry in Redfern as a steam joinery works. Joined by Henry's brothers, Robert, William and George in 1876 and 1877 and became HUDSON BROS CO. LTD. Liquidated in 1897 and became the CLYDE ENGINEERING CO LTD in 1898. Produced a windmill in 1885.

• THE CLYDE WINDMILL    This windmill had a wooden wind wheel and tail vane. The windmill was first made by HUDSON BROS c1884 and continued in production until at least 1899 under CLYDE INDUSTRIES.

HUMBLE and CO.

    Owned and operated the Vulcan Foundry in Geelong from the mid-1860's. Apparently made the windmill for the Warrnambool Sea Baths in 1877 and another similar windmill for land on the Farnharm Survey near Warrnambool in 1878.

HUNT, J.

    Manufacturer in San Francisco, USA. Research so far has not found this manufacturer. However there was a E. O. HUNT of San Francisco in the 1860's who manufactured HUNT's ADJUSTABLE Windmill.
   IMPORTED INTO AUSTRALIA OR SOLD BY

1. MARSHALL, A. A.    Exhibited it at the "Intercolonial Exhibition" of 1870 at Sydney.

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IBC

    - see - INTERCOLONIAL BORING CO.

IDEAL WINDMILL

    - see - (J-M) JONES, Ernest.
    - see - (S) STOVER MANUFACTURING Co.

ILLMAN & SONS

    Took over the business of Walter BLAKE in Balaklava, South Australia. Offered windmills for sale in 1910, 1911. In about 1921 they sold the business to HORWOODS who transferred it to Kilkenny, South Australia soon afterwards.

IMPERATOR WIND ENGINE

    - see - (J-M) McGLEW, W. H.
    - see - (U-Z) VULCAN FOUNDRY

IMPERIAL WINDMILL

    - see - HORWOOD BAGSHAW.

IMPROVED ECONOMY WINDMILL

    - see - (T) TOOWOOMBA FOUNDRY & RAILWAY ROLLING STOCK CO.

INGLEWOOD WINDMILL

    A forge made windmill from Inglewood, South Australia. The maker is unknown. He appears to have made at least two different windmills and may have made others. Some of the metal used to make the windmill is obviously second-hand, for example, the strapping around the tail. image

INTERCOLONIAL BORING Co

    1912 - . Formerly the INTERCOLONIAL DEEP WELL BORING & MANUFACTURING CO, a Canadian company which arrived in Queensland in 1888. They probably started making windmills in the 1880's in Brisbane, Queensland, possibly at 450 - 460 Ann Street. Address circa 1917 was 418-424 Ann Street, Brisbane. Later, as IBC-ESCA, they became a part of the DUNLOP organisation in 1968 and no mills have been made since the early 1970's. Operated from Yeerongpilly, Queensland.

• HERCULES WINDMILL - DIRECT ACTION - 1916 - 1919    Advertised from 1916 to 1919. Available originally with 20, 22, 24, 27, 30 and 35 ft wind wheels. By late 1917 the largest size had been dropped and 16 and 18 ft sizes added. It had 2 hub plates and used an underslung pitman and rocker arm assembly. Regulation was available by the use of a tension spring on the tail swivel rod. Large oil wells were used for lubrication.
• HERCULES WINDMILL - GEARED - 1917    Single geared windmill available in 10, 12, 14, 16 and 18ft sizes in circa 1917. Appears to be a copy of the US Wind Engine and Pump Co's Model B windmill.
• SIMPLEX WINDMILL - CAST    Large fully enclosed self oiling, direct acting mill available with 12, 16, 20, 24 and 28 ft windwheels.
• SIMPLEX WINDMILL - WELDED    Welded fully enclosed steel heads. Made with 16, 20, 25 and 30 ft wind wheels.
• SIMPLEX GEARED WINDMILL    Double geared slipper type windmill available in 8, 10, 12 and 14 foot. Roller bearings were used on the hub shaft and turntable.
• SIMPLEX DIRECT ACTION WINDMILL    Available circa 1935 in 12, 16, 20, 24 & 28 ft diameter windwheels. Non-adjustable stroke. Exposed crankshaft and the bearings were lubricated by grease.

INTERCOLONIAL DEEP WELL BORING & MFG CO.

    Changed its name in 1912 to INTERCOLONIAL BORING CO. or IBC. Address listed as 418-24 Ann Street, Brisbane in Wise's Post Office Directory of Queensland in 1903. A full page pictorial advert was also included. William Lindsay was the managing director in 1903.
    - see - INTERCOLONIAL BORING CO.

IRON TURBINE WINDMILL

    - see - (J-M) MAST FOOS.

IXL WINDMILL

    - see - GEO. E. FORTESCUE & SONS LTD.
    - see - (N-R) PHELPS and BIGELOW WINDMILL COMPANY.
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