An enclosed description of the image reads: "A new use for an old device--Germans place search lights on windmills to mark Great Continental air-routes. Photo shows: An up-to-date old windmill, equipped with a powerful search light to guide aviators on the great Continental air route between Moscow, Danzig and Berlin. German air authorities have found this a most economical way to cope with the growing demand for air travel." Underwood & Underwood negative no. S/1215X56.
Page n 29. Photograph taken during a trip to Warwickshire in July - August 1953. In the same album there is another photograph of the same mill. In the caption the locatoin's name is written in the wrong way: "Wyniates" instead of "Wynyates".
Buckland, John Stephen Percy (1935-2006), mill researcher
Page n. 29. Photograph taken during a trip to Warwickshire in July - August 1953. In the same album there is another photograph of the same mill. In the caption the location's name is written in the wrong way: "Wyniates" instead of "Wynyates".
Buckland, John Stephen Percy (1935-2006), mill researcher
