TL7349 : "Titt" Wind Engine at Hundon

near to Barnardiston, Suffolk, Great Britain

"Titt" Wind Engine at Hundon
"Titt" Wind Engine at Hundon
The "Titt" Wind Pump on North Street on the way to Hundon Hall. Historically this engine type is an important and rare example of a transitional design in wind engine technology between the earlier annular sailed windmills of which no example survives and the 20th Century fixed blade galvanised wind engines the "prairie type" wind pumps.
The pump was named after its designer John Wallis Titt 1841-1910. There is still a thriving agricultural engineering company in Frome Somerset bearing his name (information courtesy of LinkExternal link

The Wind Engine which was tended by William George Pryke and we assume he is shown in the picture with his brother Sam. Photograph date is not known.
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1940
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TL7349, 3 images   (more nearby)
Photographer
Edna Rowlinson
Contributed by
Peter Rowlinson   (find more nearby)
Image classification
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Date Taken
1940   (more nearby)
Submitted
Thursday, 24 April, 2008
Category
Windpump   (more nearby)
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! TL 739 494 [100m precision]
WGS84: 52:6.9497N 0:32.3386E
Photographer Location
OSGB36: geotagged! TL 739 494
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Southeast (about 135 degrees)
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