Published typescript, by Stephen Buckland, entitled "Variable Mill Sail Weather: A Descriptive Sketch", includes research material and biographical information on E L Burne. The paper was published in the Proceedings of the 3rd and 4th Mill Research Conference, by the Mills Research Group in March 1988 and is available in the Mills Archive Library.
Buckland, John Stephen Percy (1935-2006), mill researcher
Note entitled, 'per E.L.B.' regarding Coulsdon Common Mill as follows: 'Belonged to a man named Brigden who had a post-mill at Sydenham & a smock (hand winded) at Ewell, Surrey. The mill had two [common] sails & two springs or patents, can't say which. As a lad Brigden's man told me that his boss christened her, which might date the mill to the 50's or early 60's. Went over when a lad about 1884, when I think she had only just finished work'.
Part of the Rex Wailes collection. An advertising card for Messrs Hill & Son, Ashford. Mill erected in 1863. Reverse of card contains hand written technical notes from Mr Lancaster Burne about the sails, the gearing, the pump and the standby engine,
Article dated 20.11.1919 from Municipal Engineering and The Sanitary Record giving details laf how wind power could be used for pumping sewage and water
Wailes, Reginald (1901-1986), engineer, known as Rex