4.02-8: 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. Unlike similar Artifact #046, this machine is equipped with a 25 cycle, pre WWII, high torque, repulsion induction motor by Sangamo Electric Toronto Ont., allowing it to appear much the way it did in its early operating years, 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.:

506646

Size:

23x 18x 20’h

Weight:

120 lbs

Circa:

1929

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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, in a time prior to frequency standardisation in Ontario, circa 1948

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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 25cycle, ‘ HP, Wagner Electric motor, type RA, Sangamo Electric Toronto Ont. Original Frigidaire pressure control

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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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