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Cast iron wallowers
Drawing of cast iron wallowers at Deeze Hoek (Piquetberg) and Compagne's Drift (Bot River, Caledon).
The drive to the runner-stone
Drawing of the drive to the runner-stone, depicting detail of (a) Roux Pos: a damsel, a flat rynd, and a stone-spindle, (b) Matjes Rivier: a damsel, a three-armed rynd, a stone-spindle and a lantern, (c) Elim: a damsel, a ...
Cuyler Manor water-mill, Uitenhage : front elevation and plan
Drawing of a front elevation and ground-floor plan of Cuyler Manor water-mill, Uitenhage, depicting detail of 2 flumes, a tail-race, a pit-wheel and stairs up.
Mamre Mill, gantry in the loft
Drawing of a gantry in the loft of Mamre Mill, for hoisting sacks of grain to the loft.
Elim Mill, launder and controls
Drawing of Elim mill, depicting detail of the launder and controls.
Suggested restoration of water-wheel
Drawing of the suggested restoration of a water-wheel, depicting detail of a wooden trough (launder), a 3 in x 4 in spoke, a trough, 4 iron bars, a shaft, a mill wall and a pit wheel. Details are also provided of a section ...
Kleine Zand Drift Mill, tentering system
Drawing of the tentering system at the Kleine Zand Drift mill, Bredasdorp, depicting detail of a lantern, a spindle, a bridging-box, a bridge-tree, a wingnut and a lighter-screw.
Elim Mill, control of the water-supply
Drawing of the control of the water-supply at Elim mill, depicting detail of an overflow penstock, a mill-pond, an overflow, a pivoted sluice, a penstock, a head-race or leat, a flood-hatch, a wooden launder, flume or lade, ...
Elim Mill, Bredasdorp, stones-floor
Drawing of the machinery on the stones-floor of the Elim water-mill, Bredasdorp, manufactured by I. Zimmermann of Danzig in 1881, showing the calipers for lifting the millstone on the left, the gearing system for tentering ...
Vergelegen, Somerset West, the undershot wheel
Drawings of the undershot wheel from Vergelegen, depicting the reconstruction and a sketch from the "accusation" (enlarged).