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Comet Windmills History

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Comet specialised in the design and manufacture of windmill pumping plants for Outback Australia. The engineering works at Dulwich Hill covered 2½ acres of ground. This was the largest and most-up-to-date Windmill Factory in Australia at the time. In 1920, the Government introduced contracting for windmill pumping plants over the following 30 years including all Railways, Councils, [...]

Comet Installs 14ft C Pattern at Leconfield Vineyard South Australia

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Comet Windmills Australia is proud to have been chosen to supply the centrepiece to the customer carpark entrance at Leconfield Wines in the McLaren Vale SA. Our 14FT C Pattern Mill was installed purely as a showpiece given its iconic part of Australian history and still wholly Australian owned, manufactured and operated for over 139 [...]

Comet v Geared Mills

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All Comet mills work on the direct acting principle, by the use of a single-throw crankshaft, and so there are only three working parts. They are the driving shaft which is integral with the wind, wheel and crank, the connecting rod and the crosshead. The swivel and drawbar are not really working parts for the […]

Where did the big ones go?

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One of the largest wind wheel sizes produced in Australia was for the 35ft [10. 7 metre] Comet ‘B’ Pattern windmill. These were made by ‘Sidney Williams & Co’. Only fifteen of them seem to have been produced. The first six were made in Rockhampton, Queensland from 1915 to 1922, and the others were made […]

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