4.02-2: Kelvinator 1938 Condensing Unit
| HHCC Accession No. 2003.041 | HHCC Classification Code: 4.02-2 |
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Description:
In characteristic red, an early, commercial application, air-cooled, refrigeration machine [condensing unit] designed and built by Kelvinator of Canada for Coca Cola pop coolers. The marketing of fresh new taste sensations was central to the creation of new consumer demands by the food and entertainment industries in the 1930’s, as well as by Canadian refrigeration equipment manufacturers, Kelvinator, circa 1938.
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4.02 Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Condensing Units - Commercial
Make:
Kelvinator
Manufacturer:
Kelvinator of Canada
Model:
4975
Serial No.:
16029C
Size:
16x 14x 11’h
Weight:
85 lbs
Circa:
1938
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Exhibit, education, and research quality demonstrating the early form and working of a small, specialised, commercial application, refrigeration machines in Canada, responding to, and at the same time creating new market opportunities for the Canadian refrigeration industry.
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From York County (York Region) Ontario, once a rich agricultural hinterlands, attracting early settlement in the last years of the 18th century. Located on the north slopes of the Oak Ridges Moraine, within 20 miles of Toronto, the County would also attract early ex-urban development, to be come a wealthy market place for the emerging household and consumer technologies of the early and mid 20th century.
This artifact was discovered in the 1950’s in the used stock of T. H. Oliver, Refrigeration and Electric Sales and Service, Aurora, Ontario, an early worker in the field of agricultural, industrial and consumer technology.
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Donor:
G. Leslie Oliver, The T. H. Oliver HVACR Collection
