5.01-11: Universal Cooler 1949 Compressor
| HHCC Accession No. 2003.098 | HHCC Classification Code: 5.01-11 |
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Description:
UNIVERSAL COOLER, TYPE ‘A’ COMPRESSOR, 1949: A single cylinder, FHP, original equipment manufacturer’s [OEM’s], refrigeration compressor of the mid 20th century, just prior to the wide spread adoption of hermetic motor compressors. Astonishingly small, lightweight, and operating at elevated speeds, it stands as an historic marker of the advancements in open system compressor design and performance by OEM’s over two decades from the late 1920’s.
Group:
5.01 Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Compressors - Household
Make:
Universal Cooler
Manufacturer:
Universal Cooler, Brantford Ont.
Model:
Type A
Serial No.:
427516, body casting no.
Size:
8x9x11’h
Weight:
21 lbs
Circa:
1949
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Exhibit, education, and research quality, illustrating the significant advancement in refrigeration compressor engineering by OEM’s by mid 20th century. With astonishingly small, light weight, high-speed compressor design for the period, it would herald the popularisation of the hermetic motor compressor which would soon replace it.
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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.
With original T.H. Oliver service tag
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Donor:
G. Leslie Oliver, The T. H. Oliver HVACR Collection
