Records of the National Association of British and Irish Millers (NABIM, renamed UK Flour Millers) and the Millers' Mutual Association. Records include minutes of NABIM, MMA, the Flour Milling Employers Federation, the National Joint Industrial Council for the Flour Milling Industry and other bodies; deeds of purchase for mills; patents; accounts and financial documents; policies; cereal stock forms; photographs.
Display boards from the Molinological Conference ('Molicon'), 1979. Copies of drawings of Wrawby post mill by C T G B, 1968. Three films:UK windmills inc Paxton and Bourne, 1968; Denmark windmills, May 1974; Blakedown Forge, Churchill, Worcestershire, July 1971.
Images and cuttings, mainly of windmills with some material on watermills, covering most UK counties. Parts of the collection have been given individual catalogue entries. The remainder is listed in the attached PDF.
Meyer, Henry Smith "Harry" (1900-1982), carpenter and mill photographer
Documentation from patent cases Buhler AG v Satake UK, 1996, for which Bryan McGee was a defendant witness, and Buhler AG v FP Spomax SA, 2008, for which he was an expert witness. Diagrams giving history of milling businesses. Correspondence with Glyn Jones, 1999-2005. Correspondence with G Highley Sugden. Presentations from conference 'The Science of Wheat and Milling' (Feb 2006, Leuven, Belgium) - includes useful flowchart showing history of mill engineering firms. Miscellaneous correspondence, photocopies, cuttings and other items re. history of roller milling. McGee's Technological Examination Prize medal from City & Guilds of London. Roller mill machinery manufacturer's nameplates.
Photos of windmills in the UK and elsewhere, including one of Ruby Lewis and Guy Petitfils outside the latter's mill. Signed copy of Guy Petitfils book.
130 photographs, notebooks, newspaper cuttings and other material on English windmills. Includes the collection of L C Chapman's friend, Wilfred Banyard.