5.02-4: Universal Cooler 1952 Compressor

HHCC Accession No. 2003.107	HHCC Classification Code: 5.02-4

Description:

A FRACTIONAL HP, TWIN CYLINDER COMPRESSOR FOR SMALL COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS, Universal Cooler, Type DD, CIRCA 1952 ‘ engineered and manufactured by a principal, original equipment manufacturer [OEM] of refrigeration machines during Canada’s ‘golden’, growth years of the industry. Representative of a new, mid 20th century, generation of smaller higher speed, open system compressor design for F12 refrigerant, it too would appear ubiquitously in the then rapidly expanding network of food stores and confectionery applications across Canada.

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5.02 Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Compressors - Commercial

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Universal Cooler

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Universal Cooler, Brantford Ontario

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10x11x12’h

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40 lbs

Circa:

1952

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Exhibit, education, and research quality, illustrating the engineering and production of an original equipment manufacturer [OEM] of refrigeration machines during Canada’s ‘golden’, growth years of the industry in the 1950’s and 60’s

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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