Oldest Beer Fridge

[d2dave]

I am going to throw out a challenge, and claim that I would have the oldest working beer fridge.

I have had this for 39 years, and I can date it to about MY 1958.

Can anyone beat this.

PS. It lives in a very hostile environment, but If kept defrosted in summer it still provides ice cold beer.

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[chunk]

Mine only a baby at 38 years, the fridge inside is 28 years and the freezer that just died also 28.
(if it ain't broken why replace it)

[isuzurover]

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[isuzurover]

There are beers in this fridge...

Oldest-known fridge in America still chillin¿ 85 years later | Mail Online (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2357737/Oldest-known-fridge-America-chillin-85-years-later.html)

[d2dave]

I am not claiming that I have the oldest in the world.I know there would be thousands around older. My claim is oldest for this forum.

[Tombie]

Dread to think how much power it chews!!!

[debruiser]

Dread to think how much power it chews!!!

Agreed!

Mr Whippy: Your fridges are older than me. :(

[Ancient Mariner]

Meet the well travelled twin dont know if it would beat the vintage but I would bet its done more miles Used to sit up against the headboard of the truck along with the freezer when we were doing contracting work Western QLD out to the NT border the gulf- Cape York all more than once.Used to struggle abit in 50 Deg
but still goes well:D No fancy ECU here:D

AM

[d2dave]

Meet the well travelled twin dont know if it would beat the vintage but I would bet its done more miles Used to sit up against the headboard of the truck along with the freezer when we were doing contracting work Western QLD out to the NT border the gulf- Cape York all more than once.Used to struggle abit in 50 Deg
but still goes well:D No fancy ECU here:D

AM

Well bugger me. It is the same fridge, so would be the same vintage. Mine works ok in my shed on a 40 degree day, which it would be 45 inside with the sun on the roof

[d2dave]

Dread to think how much power it chews!!!

It produces cold beer so that is what matters. Do we dread about how much fuel our Landies use?

[blitz]

I have the first sealed unit Kelvinator that was delivered to the Northern Territory, it lived in Admiralty House for years, I saved it out of a skip it was being thrown out.

don't know month but year is 1947, it still works but I am in the process of restoring it as it was smacked about being thrown in the skip.

Blythe

Saved it because of it's historical value - now I own a house built in the mid 40's so it fits right in

[d2dave]

I have the first sealed unit Kelvinator that was delivered to the Northern Territory, it lived in Admiralty House for years, I saved it out of a skip it was being thrown out.

don't know month but year is 1947, it still works but I am in the process of restoring it as it was smacked about being thrown in the skip.

Blythe

Saved it because of it's historical value - now I own a house built in the mid 40's so it fits right in

We need the evidence.:rulez:

[rick130]

Dad had a 1927-1930 GE Monitor Top fridge that unfortunately died about five years ago.

It had never been touched, stood on feet and had a foot pedal to open the door when your hands were full.

It's refrigerant was Methyl Formate, ask your local Actrol or Heatcraft to supply that one! :D

There was one identical in a cafe in Scone and housed the staff's lunches, or at least until it changed hands twelve-eighteen months ago.

[Homestar]

Until last year when my Dad died, he still had a fridge that we first got back in 1976 when we came to Australia. It was very second hand back then but all we could afford at the time. It was still working fine and it is up the road from Mums place at the neighbours now keeping their beer cold. At a guess I'd say it would be of similar vintage to yours Dave, but I can't claim any bragging rights as it is now left our possession.

[isuzurover]

I am not claiming that I have the oldest in the world.I know there would be thousands around older. My claim is oldest for this forum.

Looks like you lost the bet :D

[sdt463]

Mine is the HIS HASTERS VOICE brand. Still goes although I stoped using it last year after the thermostat failed and I had to de ice it every couple of Weeks. I don't know how old it is but I have had it for about 38 years after rescuing it from some ones back yard after they had thrown it out of the house as being to old.
Dave

[rovers4]

Hello team.

I have one here (unable to get a piccy at the moment) that I think might predate those Aussie ones shown.
We have had it since '72, it came with the house.

It looks older than the others, has a freezer shelf in the main cabinet - only one door. No freezer door inside either.
The door only goes down to about knee height. There is a solid cover below that. It still goes, as far as I know, last plugged in several years ago.
The catch is a real catch.
And the top is slightly rounded.

It could be as old as the house, which was built in '55

Rovers4

[scarry]

A mate of mine has one that his grandfather had,doesn't work anymore.It has a little belt drive compresser under it.All original,probably ran on the methyl stuff.

When i was a kid we had one in the hut on Fraser island that ran on Kero.Can't remember much about it,except filling it with kero every now and then.I don't think it was very cold during the hot days,just cool.

[blitz]

We need the evidence.:rulez:
I'll take a couple of photos and try to work out how to post them. not sure how to prove it's history though short of seeing if there are records of it in the government archives - I was in the right place at the right time to see it as more than an old fridge

[d2dave]

Looks like you lost the bet :D

Why. I have yet to SEE one older, owned by a forum member