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Wailes, Reginald (1901-1986), engineer, known as Rex Windmills
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"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

Album of postcards from the Rex Wailes Collection

"From a boxful on sale at SPAB Windmill meeting 16/3/96. Found by Kenneth Major in the attic of SPAB, Spital Square, in box labelled Foreign Mills. Mostly Dutch, with a handful of other countries too, and a few are few English. (I wasn't the lst psn to go thro' them)".

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

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

Windmill photographs

A collection of photographs found in the Rex Wailes Collection but not necessarily taken by him.

Wailes, Reginald (1901-1986), engineer, known as Rex

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

"Pakenham Mill, Suffolk"

"Pakenham Mill, Suffolk"

Part of the Rex Wailes collection.
Dated on reverse. Shows a group of visitor at the mill.

Wailes, Reginald (1901-1986), engineer, known as Rex

'Notes Watermills'

Notebook measuring approx. 10.5 cm x 16.5 cm and marked on the inside cover 'c.1972' containing a list of mills (one page per mill), at varying levels of detail (those with more content being listed at 'Place access points' below). The first half of the notebook is devoted to watermills but the second half features windmills (mostly smock and post mills). Notes on several of the windmills reference the work of JM Heathcote. Cross references to maps/page numbers of books occur throughout.

Wailes, Reginald (1901-1986), engineer, known as Rex

"Bekesbourne Mill, Adisham, Kent"

A correspondence card from Rex Wailes featuring Thomas Hennell's drawing of Bekesbourne Mill. A note on the reverse reads: Best wishes to you both for Christmas & the New Year from Enid & Rex Wailes".

Hennell, Thomas (1903-1945), artist

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