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AUSTRALIAN WINDMILL MANUFACTURERS - S

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SAFETY WINDMILL

    - See - (J-M) LACEY, S. & Co.

SALMAN, W. & CO.

    Operated in Mount Barker, South Australia. The founder William SALMAN was born in Birmingham, England and came to South Australia in 1876. The PERSEVERENCE IRONWORKS was founded in 1893 to make agricultural implements. Later in c1898 he took his son William Harris SALMAN (1877 - ) as partner and carried on under the name W. SALMAN & CO. The Foundry was near the Mount Barker creek. Offering a windmill for sale in 1899.

• FEDERAL STEEL WIND MOTOR WINDMILL    1913. The illustration used is of the METTERS LTD WINDMOTOR windmill.

SAMSON WINDMILL

    - see - STOVER MANUFACTURING & ENGINE CO.
    - see - SAMSON OPEN GEARED Windmill

SANDOVER, William & CO.

    Addresses.

1. Perth, Western Australia - 1899
2. William St, Perth, Western Australia - 1885
3. Fremantle, Western Australia - 1899
4. High St, Fremantle, Western Australia - 1885

• - see - (N-R) PHELPS & BIGELOW WINDMILL COMPANY
• - see - STOVER MANUFACTURING AND ENGINE CO.

SANDOVERS

    - see - (F-I) HARRIS SCARFE & SANDOVERS.

SAUNDERS BREAK OF GAUGE & ENGINEERING COMPANY LTD

    - see - (S) SAUNDERS ENGINEERING CO. LTD

SAUNDERS ENGINEERING Co.

    Kilkenny, South Australia manufacturer. Previously known as SPEEDY WINDMILL Co. John Henry SAUNDERS was the director of the company who had fifteen patents, mainly for windmills and pumps, dating between 1906 and 1932. The company failed in the early 1940's after John Henry SAUNDERS was killed in a car accident in January 1939.

• ACE GEARED WINDMILL    Available in 5 sizes. 8, 9, 10, 11 & 12 ft windwheels.
• ACE GEARLESS WINDMILL    Available in 2 sizes. 6 and 7ft windwheels.
• ALERT WINDMILL    The Alert was made in windwheel sizes 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, & 14ft with a choice of 20ft or 30ft towers. It was a geared, fully enclosed, oilbath mill that was self governing. The company also made an Alert Pumping Gear which was constructed on the same principles as the Alert windmill head.
• CROWN WINDMILL    Available in two sizes. It was a double geared oil bath windmill. Ball bearing tower fittings were used. An advertising brochure c1930 describes it as a direct acting oilbath mill in sizes 18 to 24 ft windwheels.
• SPEEDY WINDMILL    The Speedy windmill was successfully marketed within South Australia and interstate. It was said to be made in a range of sizes but the only definite sizes found in advertising have been 7ft, 8ft and 12ft. A tower size of 21ft was given with the 7ft mill and 25ft with the 8ft mill. It had an open gear head with a patented quick return cam action.
• STANDARD WINDMILL    c1929 - early 1940's. First prize winner at the 1929 Royal Show Adelaide, South Australia, for Best Self-Oiling windmill. Double geared oil bath windmill which could be fitted to 3 or 4 post towers on a ball bearing tower cap. Eight sizes available. An advertising brochure c1930 depicted a diagram of the 8ft gearbox and testimonies from Mr George Tilley of Sturt and Mr G.A. Stacey of Normanville waxed eloquent on the virtues of the 14 ft model. An expanding hub brake was used and the crosshead was guided by a single bar with stay bolt.
• VICTOR WINDMILL    Available in 2 sizes. 5 & 6ft windwheels. A self governing oilbath mill which could be fitted to 3 or 4 legged towers on a ball bearing tower cap. It could also be fitted onto a post.
• STANDARD LIGHT WIND GENERATOR    In 1935 they displayed two models of the Standard Light at the Adelaide Show. These were a direct driven model offered in 12 and 32 volts, and a gear driven model in 32, 50 and 110 volts. They had a four-bladed propeller of 11ft or 12ft diameter. Advertising for these machines appears in newspapers between 1933 and 1939. There was also a two-bladed propeller version advertised in 1937.

SAUNDERS AND STUART

    Exhibited a windmill at the 1912 Perth Royal Show.

SCOTT & YOUNG

    Windmill manufacturer of Carlton, Victoria who manufactured windmills 1891 - 1894.
   In 1887 Scott & Young, Atlas Company of Engineers, Latrobe and Queen Streets, Melbourne, also advertised an Althouse windmill, but they claimed to be the patentees and sole manufacturers. They offered the windmill with a choice of the stock sizes ten, twelve, fourteen and sixteen foot plus the stated that that larger sizes could be made on demand. Their advertising shows a tower platform with Althouse written on it, and what appears to be a Raymond windmill. It is possible that they may have had an arrangement with the American company.

SHARP, Henry William

    Patented a self regulating windmill on 26th February 1864 in NSW, patent no. 89. Sharp's windmills were known to be used on the properties Stony Point and Jellalabad, near Darlington in Western Victoria, circa 1880.

SHAW, ALFRED LIMITED

    Wholesale ironmonger and general merchant of Townsville, Queensland, who also dealt in windmills. Advertised in Wise's P. O. Directory of Queensland in 1903.

SHIRREFF, T.

    Windmill manufacturer of Stawell, Victoria who produced windmills in 1930.

SIMPLEX WINDMILL

    - see - (A-B) BALAKLAVA FOUNDRY.
    - see - (F-I) INTERCOLONIAL BORING CO.
    - see - (T) TOOWOOMBA FOUNDRY & RAILWAY ROLLING STOCK CO.

SIMPLEX ECONOMY WINDMILL

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

SIMPLEX GEARED WINDMILL

    - see - (F-I) INTERCOLONIAL BORING CO.

SKY ENGINEERING COMPANY

    Their factory was at 83 Queen's Road, Five Dock, N.S.W. It replaced another site. Another address was 127a Sussex St, Sydney from 1930 - 1933.

• TYPE 01 SKY OIL BATH WINDMILL    Oil bath cast gear box with double, machine cut gears. The crosshead had 2 guide rods. Bearings were bronze, split for accessibility in split housings. The crosshead has separate babbitt lined slippers with a long bearing surface. Ball bearing turntable with adjustment for the mast pipe. The internal gear mounts are separate to the gearbox. Made in 8 '6 ", 10, 12'6", 14 and 17 ft.

SNOOK, Charles William

    Of Brookton, Western Australia took out US patent no. 1,654,436 on the 27th of December 1927, from an application made in 1925. He also applied for an Australian Patent in 1924. Very streamlined head design but not internals, for a windmill with blades similar to those used on the FORTESCUE made ECONOMY windmill.

SOUTHERN CROSS MACHINERY LTD.

    c1903 - 1994. In 1901 The TOOWOOMBA FOUNDRY began making well drilling equipment labelled as SOUTHERN CROSS equipment. Then in c1902 Bert GRIFFITHS designed and manufactured the first SOUTHERN CROSS Windmill. This and the well drilling equipment soon earned a reputation for strength and effective operation, thus the trade name SOUTHERN CROSS was adopted by the TOOWOOMBA FOUNDRY in 1911. They had however applied for the trademark in 1906. The company that until this time had marketed its products through mail order catalogues, established sales branches to ensure factory capacity was maintained and increased. These branches were staffed by factory trained representatives, who called on landholders to sell SOUTHERN CROSS Products. In 1925 they amalgamated with the ECLIPSE Windmill Company. Documented cases of the company exporting its products were recorded in 1939. Natcorp Investments Ltd, a publicly listed investment company, took a 49% interest in SOUTHERN CROSS in 1987. Until that time ownership remained wholly with the GRIFFITHS family. In 1990 SOUTHERN CROSS became a wholly owned subsidiary of National Consolidated Ltd. Then in May 1993 the foundry was separated from the pumps and irrigation business, the latter being sold to a management buy-out of the branch and agency network, manufacturing assets including the non-ferrous foundry, the fabricating, galvanising and assembly operations plus the National Distribution Warehouse. On the 31st January 1994, SOUTHERN CROSS MACHINERY PTY LTD was renamed SOUTHERN CROSS PUMPS and IRRIGATION PTY LTD.

SOUTHERN CROSS PUMPS AND IRRIGATION LTD

    1994 - On the 31st January 1994, SOUTHERN CROSS MACHINERY PTY LTD was renamed SOUTHERN CROSS PUMPS and IRRIGATION PTY LTD. In December 1996 A.M.P., Australia's leading non-bank finance company, purchased 46% of SOUTHERN CROSS. The retail branches of the company throughout Australia were sold to private operators in the irrigation and pumping industry, allowing SOUTHERN CROSS to focus on product development, manufacture and wholesale distribution.

SOUTHERN CROSS WINDMILL

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

SOUTHERN CROSS [SOUTH AFRICA]

    Their version of the SOUTHERN CROSS IZ model imported to Australia and sold by RAINDROP AGRICULTURAL.

SOUTHERN CROSS WINDMILL COMPANY

    Address - New South Wales - King St, St Peters. - 1922 - 1933.

SPEEDY WINDMILL

    - see - SAUNDERS ENGINEERING CO. LTD

SPEEDY WINDMILL AND PUMP Co.

    Kilkenny, South Australia. This company is tied in with SAUNDERS ENGINEERING CO. LTD. At present it is not known which is the earlier form.

• ALERT WINDMILL    Patented in 1915. Geared oil bath windmill available with 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 14 foot wind wheels. 20 and 30 foot towers were available.

SPEEDY WINDMILL Co.

    - see - SAUNDERS ENGINEERING Co. LTD

SPRINGER AND GREGORY

    - see - (N-R) PHELPS & BIGELOW.
    This company was in Rockford, Illinois in the USA, and succeeded SPRINGER and THAYER, windmill manufacturers of the same location who were active in the 1870's. It itself was succeeded by I. W. SPRINGER and Company in the 1890's. They were possible suppliers of IXL windmills.

STANDARD WINDMILL

    - see - SAUNDERS ENGINEERING Co. LTD

STAR ZEPHYR WINDMILL

    - see - (F-I) FLINT & WALLING.

STATE BABY WINDMILL

    - see - STATE IMPLEMENT AND ENGINEERING WORKS.

STATE IMPLEMENT AND ENGINEERING WORKS

    West Australian government foundry which began producing windmills in 1915 at Rocky Bay, Fremantle. They had showrooms and offices in Murray Street, Perth. Later known as the STATE ENGINEERING WORKS. A branch was established in South Australia.

• BABY WINDMILL - STATE BABY WINDMILL    6 ft single geared open windmill.
• BOOMERANG WINDMILL    Made in 6, 8 & 10 ft. This was an open single geared windmill fitted to a 4 post tower with a wooden pitman arm and connecting rod. Lubricated by oil wells. The band brake works on the rear end of the main shaft.
• DOUBLE GEARED WINDMILL    Made in 6, 8 and 10 ft. Open geared windmill on a 4 post tower. It uses hardwood pitman arms. The band brake works on the back end of the main shaft.
• DUX WINDMILL - STATE SELF-OILING WINDMILL    Available in 8 ft only. Double geared oil bath gearbox with oil pump. All bearings are clamped for easy access. Main shaft bearings are roller bearings. There is a brake band on the 2 piece hub. - see also - DUX windmill

STEEL STAR WINDMILL

    - see - (F-I) FLINT & WALLING.

STEEL WINGS WINDMILL

    - see - (A-B) BULLOCK ELECTRIC MANUFACTURING CO LTD.

STEEL WINGS WINDMILL Co

    Windmill manufacturer of North Sydney, NSW. They produced a windmill c1900 which was also made in the UK, but originated in Australia. Address was Bay Rd, North Sydney from 1907 to 1911 and also at 107 Pitt St, Sydney in 1909.

STEVENS, James

    - see - (A-B) BRITTANIA IRONWORKS.
    - see - (C-E) EAGLE FOUNDRY.

STEVENS BROS

    Charlie and Bill, manufacturers at Footscray, Victoria. Charlie STEVENS died in an explosion at the works.The company later became the West Footscray Engineering Co.

• RACK WINDMILL    Still made on demand in 1937.

STOVER MANUFACTURING & ENGINE Co

    Large windmill manufacturer at Freeport, Illinois, USA. These were imported over a fair period because examples can be found of the open gearbox SAMSON and the SAMSON OIL RITE models and probably others. An Australian trademark application for this name was made in 1881. There was an application in Australia for the trademark STOVER by B.S.WILLIAMS, Homer MARVEL, M.B.WILLIAMS and J.D.BROWER trading as B.S.WILLIAMS and Co in 1881/2. In 1883/4 another application for the trade mark was made by Andrew NOWELL and George LUSH trading as ANDREW NOWELL and Co.
    IMPORTED INTO AUSTRALIA or sold by

1. AUSTRALASIAN IMPLEMENT CO     FREEPORT windmill - 1897 advertised as sole agents.
2. DEHLE, BENNISON & CO
3. DONOVAN & McCRAY
4. ENGINEERING SUPPLY CO OF AUSTRALIA
5. GEO P. HARRIS SCARFE & CO    In 1885 they applied for and used the trademark "Old Reliable Freeport" OLD RELIABLE FREEPORT 1881 - 1889.
6. HARRIS SCARFE & SANDOVERS LTD    SAMSON open gear - 1925. STOVER OIL RITE - 1933. SAMSON OIL RITE.
7. HORWOOD, J. H. & CO    IDEAL windmill, both wooden and steel models - 1892.
8. OVERALL, McCRAY LTD.    Sydney, Baldrock & Balmain, NSW. SAMSON open geared windmill - 1913.
9. SANDOVER, William & CO    SAMSON open gear - 1915. IDEAL, Steel - 1899.
10. WELCH PERRIN & CO    Melbourne, Victoria.

• SAMSON OPEN GEARED WINDMILL - 1900 - c1925    This windmill was made commercially available from 1900. It was a open twin back geared windmill and was available in 4.3/4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18 & 20 ft. Some later mills used Hyatt roller bearings rather than babbitt. A hub brake was used. It is confirmed that this later type did come to Australia. For further information see - SAMSON OPEN GEARED Windmill
• STOVER OIL-RITE WINDMILL    Successor to the SAMSON OPEN GEAR windmill. For further information see - STOVER OIL RITE Windmill

STOVER OIL RITE WINDMILL

    - see - STOVER MANUFACTURING & ENGINE Co.
    - see - STOVER OIL RITE Windmill

STRATE STROKE PUMPS & ENGINES PTY LTY

    Address at Cowper St, Footscray, Melbourne, Victoria. They were offering SPECIAL A and SPECIAL B windmills in 1941.

SWAN WINDMILL

    - see - (F-I) HARRIS SCARFE & SANDOVERS LTD.

SYDNEY WINDMILL CO

    Advertised windmills at Bolton St, Marrickville, NSW in 1915 to 1917.

SYMON, HAMMOND & HUBBLE

    - see - (J-M) MAST FOOS.

SYMONDS, James

   Patented from Melbourne a wooden wheeled windmill in 1882.
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