Above: The STANDARD windmill.
Right: Possibly the ALERT windmill.

The Saunders Engineering Company Windmills

The Saunders Engineering Company was a manufacturer based in Kilkenny, South Australia. It was previously known as the SPEEDY WINDMILL Co.
There was a John Henry SAUNDERS who applied for a windmill patent in 1925. The company failed in the early 1940's after John Henry SAUNDERS was killed in a car accident.
The windmills they manufactured were the ALERT windmill, the CROWN windmill, the SPEEDY windmill and the STANDARD windmill.
Little is known about the ALERT and SPEEDY windmills, but the CROWN was a double geared oil bath windmill that was available in two sizes. It used ball bearing tower fittings. The STANDARD windmill was manufactured from circa 1929 to the early 1940's. It was a double geared oil bath windmill which could be fitted to 3 or 4 post towers on a ball bearing tower cap. There were eight sizes available, but the only known example was 14 foot. An expanding hub brake was used and the crosshead was guided by a single bar with stay bolt.
Photographed by B. G. Hewitson.
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