REMARKABLE WINDMILL.
.OPERATED BY CLOTHES LINE. Built by the village cobbler over a century ago there is a windmill afc Tollerton, Yorkshire, that is started by means of a clothes line. Mr. Ernest Mitchell, the present owner, is a great-grandson of the man who erected it single-handed in less than two years. The clothes line hangs down the mill side, and when it is pulled it lifts a bar, levers a beam, and raises a brake on the flywheel that releases the enormous sails. "My work at the mill is mainly governed by the wind, Mr. Mitchell says. "To enable me to know when the hopper wants filling with more corn I have an old cow bell stretched .across the open bottom. It never fails to let me know when the hopper is empty." Mr. Mitchell still grinds corn for neighbouring farmers. He recalls that during the war the windmill was not allowed to be whitewashed for fear that it should be a landmark, as it now is, for aeroplanes and zeppelins.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20922, 11 July 1931, Page 3 (Supplement)
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172REMARKABLE WINDMILL. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20922, 11 July 1931, Page 3 (Supplement)
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