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The Easy windmill was manufactured
by the Easy Manufacturing Company of Lincoln, Nebraska. At least
as early as the mid-1920's, the Easy Manufacturing Company was producing
open back geared and then later oil bath back geared steel pumping windmills
from a plant located at 1405 North 12th Street in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Owned by father and son, John F. and Charles D. Ammon, the firm produced
a range of farm implements including its windmills. The Ammons purchased
castings from a neighboring firm across the street, the Cushman Motor Works,
which at the time was best known for its internal combustion engines.
The Ammon family at Easy Manufacturing Company not only distributed their
windmills under there own trade names as Easy Mills, but they also supplied
them under contract to Montgomery Ward and Company, which for a decade
sold them through its mail order catalogs as Air King Windmills.
Today these mills may be seen in the field under both names.
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