Caps

FUWA-02227
Item
2013

Part of Friends of Upminster Windmill Archive

The Brake Wheel is 10 ft 9in diameter and has 78 wooden teeth. It meshes with a Wallower gear that has 43 teeth, thus the gear ratio is 1.8:1. By using gears that are a mix of an odd and even number of teeth, cyclic wear of the teeth is prevented.

"Cap curb and weather beam of a windmill (possibly Wheatley)"

WALL-01-32
Item
No date

Part of Christopher Wallis Collection

"Weather beam, cap curb" edited photocopy.

"Wheatley Windmill cap circle"

WALL-01-30
Item
June 1995

Part of Christopher Wallis Collection

Untitled drawing of cap;
"Restoration of cap and headworks stage I: survey" edited photocopy.

"Wheatley Windmill curb circle and cap"

WALL-01-29
Item
June 1995 - August 1996

Part of Christopher Wallis Collection

"Restoration of the cap and headworks stage I: repairing and fixing the curb" drawing and carbon copy;
"Restoration of the cap head works stage II: new wheel race (existing wheels)" drawing;
"Restoration of the cap and headworks: survey" drawing.

"Chiseldon Windmill reconstruction"

WALL-01-21
Item
22 December 1983 - 9 January 1984

Part of Christopher Wallis Collection

"Constructional & engineering details" edited carbon copy;
"Sails & striking gear" edited carbon copy;
"Mechanical & constructional of cap" edited carbon copy;
"External elevation of cap" edited carbon copy;

"Upminster" cap and fantail

WALL-01-04
Item
No date

Part of Christopher Wallis Collection

drawing of cap and fantail

"Stansted Mountfitchet Windmill weatherbeam and cap circle: present distortion"

WALL-01-03
Item
No date

Part of Christopher Wallis Collection

"Weatherbeam and cap circle: present distortion" carbon copies

"Stansted Mountfitchet Windmill"

WALL-01-02
Item
March 1982 - August 1984

Part of Christopher Wallis Collection

"Weatherbeam and cap circle: present distortion" drawing;
"Re-aligning weatherbeam and cap circle: 'A' frame arrangement" drawing;
"Stone floor main beams: props, Dust floor main beams: end cleat" drawing and carbon copy;
"Weatherbeam and cap circle access scaffold" drawing;
Untitled carbon copy
"Re-aligning weatherbeam and cap circle" drawing;
"New sails" drawing and carbon copy;
Work timetable
Untitled edited carbon copy

White Roding Tower Mill, Essex

JSPB-1127868
Item
12 September 1950

Part of Stephen Buckland Collection

Page n.34. The photograph shows an outside view of the mill. The mill doesn't look like in good condition, the sails appears damaged and the window's glass broken.

Buckland, John Stephen Percy (1935-2006), mill researcher

Burwell Tower Mill, Cambridgeshire

JSPB-1127816
Item
10 August 1950

Part of Stephen Buckland Collection

Page n.29. The photograph shows an outside view of the mill. It is possible see the ogee cap, the fantail, the sails and also a person in the vegetable garden near the mill.

Buckland, John Stephen Percy (1935-2006), mill researcher

Hoyle's 5 Sailed Mill Exterior 6

DOLM-07229
Item
1985

Part of Peter Dolman Collection

Final photograph of Hoyle's Mill showing the tower mill from a different angle among a couple of buildings. Example of ogee cap and fantail

Dolman, Peter C J (1955-2002), miller

Ogee Cap Machinery, Ingle's Mill, Willingham

KGFC-1124402
Item
August 1955

Part of Kenneth G Farries Collection

Photograph showing some machinery inside the ogee cap of Ingle's Mill in Willingham, Cambridgeshire. Photographed by Kenneth G. Farries in August 1955.

Farries, Kenneth G, author