Baby windmill

In the 1920s the State Implement and Engineering Works of WA launched a new windmill on the market. This, the six foot (1.8 metre) ‘Baby Windmill’, came accompanied by advertising material declaring its price tag of 38 pounds as offering “the cheapest mill on the market”. “Every farmer carrying stock, which are depending on water from dams, should install one of these,” reads one ad and, “there is wonderful value in this offer,” declares another sales letter. These windmills sold from 1920 to 1928.