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Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Condensing Units – Household

A condensing unit with vertically mounted, belt driven, rotary compressor, an aberrant event, a mere blips on the Canadian refrigeration industry landscape. It serves to dramatise the rich array of engineering configurations and manufacturers, many short lived, all part of Canada’s early developmental “golden Age” of refrigeration technology, leading up to the 1950’s. Manufacturer unknown, circa 1938.

Industrial Significance:
The electric motor by Robbins Myers, Brampton Ont. Serves to further high light Brantford as the rapidly growing refrigeration capital of Canada.

Accession # HHCC.2003.036

A condensing unit with vertically mounted, belt driven, rotary compressor, an aberrant event, a mere blips on the Canadian refrigeration industry landscape. It serves to dramatise the rich array of engineering configurations and manufacturers, many short lived, all part of Canada’s early developmental “golden Age” of refrigeration technology, leading up to the 1950’s. Manufacturer unknown, circa 1938.

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