4.02-6: Frigidaire 1929 Condensing Unit

Description:

A refrigeration condensing unit, with rolled and formed steel frame, massive in appearance, given its modest capacity, the Frigdaire Model S served to perpetuate the ‘machinery look’ of the 1920’s well in to the next decade. With oval coil, static air condenser it would be recognised as a kind of icon of the engineering culture of the times, with its ideas of what a proper refrigeration machine should look like. A real time piece of the era in which it was conceived, many would still be in service 30 years later, servicing Canada’s food and hospitality industries, Frigidaire, 1929

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4.02 Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Condensing Units - Commercial

Make:

Frigidaire

Manufacturer:

Frigidaire Corp., Dayton Ohio

Model:

Model S

Serial No.:

435822

Size:

23x 18x 20’h

Weight:

120 lbs

Circa:

1929

Rating:

Exhibit, education, and research quality demonstrating the unique period in the development of small, commercial application, refrigeration machines in which static air condensers were used.

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Provenance:

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.

Type and Design:

Twin cylinder compressor 13’, 16 blade fan hub pulley, V belt drive 60 cycle, ‘ HP, Delco capacitor start motor, installed in 1948 as part of frequency conversion on Ontario, Model M1670B7, McKinnon Industries, St Catherines Ont. Original Frigidaire pressure control

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Original decorative Frigidaire sticker and logo Original wiring harness in steel sheathed BX, 2/14 cable and Square D disconnect switch Cat No 98251, with original 15 amp. cartridge fuses

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Donor:

G. Leslie Oliver, The T. H. Oliver HVACR Collection

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Bibliographic References:

Frigidaire Manual, SER405, products mfd prior to 1937

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