Vintage Windmill and Wind Generator Forum

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.

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.

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

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