Fairbury 7 spcl

[mtblah]

[babraid]

WindyBob -
The depth of knowledge on this forum is incredibly helpful to a newbie like me with no background in machinery or farming. But if your oysters are poorly just shoot me a message lol.

I've spread your hypothesis to the rest of the internet universe, or to the 72 people who watched the video of that Fairbury 7B Special.

[babraid]

Noodling around on the internet and came across a line in an article on windmills on the Atlas Obscura website that said during the Depression Fairbury introduced a New Deal Special. That was all, and no source quoted.
I don't know if this refers to the 7B Special, or to the "2 reduced-price mills" introduced during the Depression, the 33 and the 7C (quoting loosely from pg 229 of the Field Guide to American Windmills).
Anyway, thought that was an interesting tidbit.

[windybob]

If you have the green book, you can see the year that most models of mills were introduced onto the market place.

[babraid]

I checked my new green book, and it says the 33 was promoted as the New Deal Windmill.