Vintage Windmill and Wind Generator Forum

Wayne thank you for the information. It is much appreciated.

Hi Bod and Dan

Thank you for your messages.

Would a 12 ftr kind of been a basic/average size model? We was offered a smaller 702 but someone here in South Africa with knowledge of windmills said it was used mainly in areas with string winds. If I remember correctly it was a 6ftr. Or is there a ...

Hi Bob

I have received attached new photographs of the Aermotor.

It is then a 602.

Hi All

Looking at the photographs is there perhaps anything else that you can add please?

Thank you

Kind regards

Daniel

Hi Wayne Thank you for the message. Thank you I shall contact the Wind Power Center. I shall also make contact with Darrin Jantz. Thank you it is a valuable reference. Kind regards Daniel

Hi Windy Thank you very much for the detailed response. I shall then get more photographs to assist with the identification of the one that has been offered to us.

Windy, Mike and Dan Do you perhaps know of scale models that were made of some of the late 19th century models? That we can then use ...

Hi Dan

Thank you for the information. Much appreciated. It is then definitely not an option for us!

I am now convinced that we should try to get a 602 or 702 here in South Africa and the change is then very, very that the one that has been offered to us is a 602 or early 702

Kind regards

Daniel

Hi Windy and Mike

Thank you for your kind messages.

Windy as the chance is then much better to find a late 19th century model in the US than in South Africa I have thought about the possibility of trying to import one. But as Mike confirmed - what I have also figured out by comparing photographs ...

Hello from South Africa

Thank you for been allowed to become a member of the forum.

I am involved with the development of a late 19th century living farm museum in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. We want to install a windmill on the farm.

In a book Windpumps in South Africa by Walton ...