Millers are people who operate windmills and mill buildings that produce flour.
Dusty Miller[]
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Dusty Miller is the owner of Toby's Windmill. He also works at Hillside Mill.
Biography[]
Dusty Miller operates his own windmill, which produces flour for the engines to take to the market. When some flour sacks were damaged due to Toby's accident with some trucks, the miller was upset and told Toby about the possibility of the windmill being shut down if the flour could not be sold. After lighting struck the windmill, the miller could not afford the timber for repairs, however, Toby brought some fallen trees to the miller, who used them for the workmen to rebuild the windmill.
When Dusty Miller was working at Hillside Mill, Thomas mistook him for the Man in the Hills, as the miller was covered in flour which made him look white.
Appearances[]
Thomas & Friends[]
- Series 7 - Toby's Windmill
- Series 12 - The Man in the Hills and Percy and the Bandstand (does not speak)
Voice Actors[]
- Shinobu Satouchi (Japan)
- Paweł Ciołkosz (Poland)
- Jeon Tae-yeol (South Korea)
Trivia[]
- Early sketches for Dusty Miller's CGI model call him "Windy Miller". By coincidence, this name was used for a character in the 1966 television show Camberwick Green.
- Dusty Miller was the last character created by David Mitton before he left the production team.
- In the twelfth series, Dusty Miller grew a moustache.
- Dusty Miller's figure used to be on display at Drayton Manor.
- His close-up scale figures were sold in the Propstore's Thomas & Friends Online Charity Auction 2025.
Merchandise[]
- Wooden Railway (discontinued)
"Dusty" Dave[]
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Dave, nicknamed "Dusty" Dave, is in charge of Sodor Flour Mills.
Biography[]
When Thomas arrived at the mill looking for a truck of flour, he found that the mill was closed. Dave, who was getting ready to go home, told Thomas that there was one truck of flour behind a line of empty trucks.
Appearances[]
Thomas & Friends[]
- Series 10 - Follow that Flour
- Series 11 - Thomas and the Storyteller (cameo), Toby's Triumph (cameo) and Thomas and the Runaway Car (cameo)
Voice Actors[]
- Nobuaki Kanemitsu (Japan)
Trivia[]
- In the Brazilian narration, Dave is called "Dusty Miller", which is also the name of another miller.
- His close-up scale figures were sold in the Propstore's Thomas & Friends Online Charity Auction 2025.
The Post Windmill Miller[]
The Post Windmill Miller works at the Post Windmill.
Biography[]
Edward once had an idea for the miller to get more visitors. He told the miller to bake many loaves of bread as he might get some unexpected visitors. At the station, Edward's driver informed some people about a party at the windmill. When Edward arrived at the windmill with the people, The miller was surprised to see them, though he offered them each a fresh slice of buttered bread. The people were delighted and decided to visit the windmill every week for some fresh bread. This made Edward very pleased as the miller had some new people to talk to.
Appearances[]
The Miller[]
The Miller works at a windmill.
Biography[]
When Percy arrived at the windmill, the miller said it was going to rain and gave Percy's driver a tarpaulin to cover Percy's truck, thought it turned out the rain was actually stone-ground flour from the windmill.