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Jon Sass Collection Wailes, Reginald (1901-1986), engineer, known as Rex
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Miscellaneous UK mill material

The box contains two cross-sectional drawings of North Leverton Windmill; newspaper cutting of Mapledurham Mill's 1977 restoration; 5 reprints of the Transactions of the Newcomen Society by Rex Wailes; copy of "Eksperimentel Arkaeologi" article on Iron Age rotary querns by Anne Bloch Jorgensen; material relating to the Quern Study Group; material on gunpowder mills including "Explosives in History" by Norman Wilkinson (1975) for The Hagley Museum, The Hagley Museum Guide (1976), "Gunpowder Mills Gazetteer" by Glenys Crocker (1988) and "Chilworth Gunpowder" by Glenys Crocker (1984); photocopy from Les Moulins No. 7 "Les Pierres A Moulins etc"; Lincolnshire History and Archaeology Group information; file of SPAB Mills Section members information.

Sass, Jon A (b. 1942), miller and millwright

"U.S.A. Long Island N.Y. Hook Mill, Easthampton"

Envelope containing photographs and postcards of Hook Mill, East Hampton, New York. Many of the photographs are by Rex Wailes and show the internal machinery.

Sass, Jon A (b. 1942), miller and millwright

"U.S.A. Cape Cod Mass"

"Chatham Mill. Brewster Mill (+ Stoney Brook Watermill". Envelope containing photographs and postcards of Chatham Mill, Brewster Mill, and Cockle Cove Mill, Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

Sass, Jon A (b. 1942), miller and millwright

Photographs of windmills in USA, Canada and Yemen

Photograph wallet containing 13 photographs and six negative strips The photographs appear to have been taken by Jon Sass of Rex Wailes' photographs. The negatives have more images than there are photographs. Windmills shown are: South Brewster Mill, Massachusetts; brine pumping mills, Aden; tower mill, Detroit, Michigan; Verchères, Quebec; pumping mill, Mont Joli, Quebec; Trois-Rivières Mill, Quebec; five unidentified smock mills, Rhode Island.

Sass, Jon A (b. 1942), miller and millwright