5.02-8: Bruner 1942 Compressor
| HHCC Accession No. 2003.113 | HHCC Classification Code: 5.02-8 |
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Description:
A FRACTIONAL HP COMPRESSOR EMPLOYED FOR FARM MILK CAN COOLING, BRUNER, MODEL UNMARKED, CIRCA 1948 ‘ This unique compressor, with clearly documented genealogy, was employed on a farm milk cooler application, where, its eccentric mechanism having failed, was replaced by a Kelvinator model SB [see #105]. Part of a larger genre, Bruner was widely marketed to the trade to become a work-horse of the Canadian refrigeration industry, in its time. [see also #113, 114, 115]
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5.02 Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Compressors - Commercial
Make:
Bruner
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Unmarked
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Unmarked
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12x12x14’h
Weight:
50 lbs.
Circa:
1942
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Exhibit, education, and research quality, illustrating early design and construction of refrigeration compressors by Bruner, a mainline supplier to the Canadian refrigeration market during its growth years in the 20th century
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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.
Tag by T. H. Oliver Ltd, ‘Trade-in Nicol Farm, on Kelv SB, Aug 22, 1957, louse eccentric on shaft ‘’
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Donor:
G. Leslie Oliver, The T. H. Oliver HVACR Collection
