My Old Beer Fridge

[d2dave]

I got an email from my son today. He spotted an ad for a fridge which is the same as my old beer fridge in the shed.


https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2015/07/1108.jpg

[V8Ian]

Ha ha, check the phone number, 4848. :D

[d2dave]

And the price. I did a bit of a google search.
That would be around one third of a blue collar workers yearly pay.

[Dark61]

Is it still working? I hope you're not still paying it off!
cheers,
D

[scarry]

Five years warranty and trade in your old fridge or ice chest...:o:D

[d2dave]

Is it still working? I hope you're not still paying it off!
cheers,
D

Yep still purring along. I purchased it second hand about 40 years ago. Hasn't missed a beat.

Unlike my house fridge. Purchased it new in 1988. It has so far had 3 compressors, one defrost timer, three defrost elements and two fans.

I can't remember if I have done the thermostat, but I think I might have.

[d2dave]

Five years warranty and trade in your old fridge or ice chest...:o:D

What about the washing machine part of the ad. Free in home demonstration.

[discovery39]

Cool ad.........:wasntme:
Shame there's no date.

[d2dave]

Cool ad.........:wasntme:
Shame there's no date.

I had the same thoughts although I can tell you that fridge is around 58 years old. Nearly as old as me.

[jimr1]

Dave , what a lovely bit of old information , It's a shame no date , as you say 40 years . A few of the younger blocks wouldn't remember 12/6p a week !!.. Jim .:)

[Pocket Rocket]

Dave , what a lovely bit of old information , It's a shame no date , as you say 40 years . A few of the younger blocks wouldn't remember 12/6p a week !!.. Jim .:)

Could probably work out a date range based on when phone numbers used to be 4 digits. Well before my time but maybe there is someone on aulro who does know.

[d2dave]

Could probably work out a date range based on when phone numbers used to be 4 digits. Well before my time but maybe there is someone on aulro who does know.

Are you trying to work out the age of the ad or the age of the fridge?

[d2dave]

A few of the younger blocks wouldn't remember 12/6p a week !!.. Jim .:)

Let alone know what a Guinea was, abbreviated to GNS in the prices for the washing machines.

[V8Ian]

A guinea was one pound/one shilling, 21 shillings or in today speak $2.10.

[Tote]

It's older than my beer fridge.....

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/ (http://s4.photobucket.com/user/toteau/media/stuff/IMGP2392.1_zpsrkdhg8vc.jpg.html)

Regards,

Tote

[scarry]

It's older than my beer fridge.....

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/ (http://s4.photobucket.com/user/toteau/media/stuff/IMGP2392.1_zpsrkdhg8vc.jpg.html)

Regards,

Tote

A good old Kelvy Silent Knight.1960's vintage

[jimr1]

It's older than my beer fridge.....

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y127/toteau/stuff/IMGP2392.1_zpsrkdhg8vc.jpg (http://s4.photobucket.com/user/toteau/media/stuff/IMGP2392.1_zpsrkdhg8vc.jpg.html)

Regards,

Tote
I hope It's full ??..

[d2dave]

A good old Kelvy Silent Knight.1960's vintage

I am pretty sure a silent Knight was a Kero/gas absorption fridge, having no compressor, which is were they got the silent from.

[discovery39]

Not one Land Rover sticker on the beer Fridge??? TSK TSK...........:p

[Tote]

Most of them were put there by people other than me (particularly the Maccas one which was put there by a young lady specifically to annoy me) long before I had more than a passing interest in Land Rovers but good point, I'll look into it.

Anyone else got an interesting beer fridge?

Regards,
Tote

[cafe latte]

I am pretty sure a silent Knight was a Kero/gas absorption fridge, having no compressor, which is were they got the silent from.

So not electric?
Chris

[d2dave]

So not electric?
Chris

I have done a bit of a search and looks like I could be partly wrong.

There was the old silent knight which was a kero/gas fridge, which is not electric. I always assumed they got their name from being silent, due to no compressor.

However, there appears to also be an electric compressor model also, which was called a silent Knight.

Here is a bit from wiki.

The Hallstroms moved to Dee Why, New South Wales (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dee_Why,_New_South_Wales), by which time Hallstrom had become interested in the young industry of refrigeration. He set about inventing in his Dee Why backyard, and in 1923 produced his first product, the Icy Ball absorption refrigerator (another kerosene-powered refrigerator, also called the Icy Ball (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icy_Ball), was later manufactured in the United States in 1927 or 1928 by Powel Crosley Jr. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powel_Crosley_Jr.)). Hallstrom's Icy Ball was a kerosene (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerosene)-powered chest model, which he designed for use in the Australian outback (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outback), where the low-tech (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-tech) Coolgardie safe (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coolgardie_safe) was in widespread use. He initially went to the outback to sell these units himself.[1] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Hallstrom#cite_note-adb-1)
Hallstrom expanded his product line with the development of the popular Silent Knight upright refrigerator. These were gas-powered and also electric models, and were produced in a factory in Willoughby, New South Wales (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willoughby,_New_South_Wales) under the business name of Hallstroms Pty Ltd (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proprietary_limited_company). During World War II (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II) the factory manufactured munitions (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munition), as well as refrigerators for the use of the United States Army. By the mid-1940s, the factory was producing around 1,200 refrigerators weekly, which were exported as well as sold locally. The "Hallstrom Silent Knight" was a fairly priced, locally produced product at a time (post-war era) when imported refrigerators were very expensive. Their resulting popularity made Hallstrom a millionaire.[ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Hallstrom#cite_note-adb-1)


The full story if you want to read it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Hallstrom

[scarry]

The 'silent' also referred to the new electric sealed units operating on R12.

Some of the earlier electric domestic cabinets ran on methyl chloride or sulfer something,maybe dioxide.They were belt driven,and very noisy.

A bit of trivia,Kelvinater also made many car parts,particularly for Holdens.The four blade fan on the Kelvinater open drive compresser units was identical to the one used on many Holdens of the same vintage.Many bumpers were also made by kelvinater.

The Kelvinater open drive commercial refrigeration units were the best available.Today any parts from them are worth their weight in gold,particularly flywheels,crankshafts,etc.

[rick130]

The Kelvinater open drive commercial refrigeration units were the best available.Today any parts from them are worth their weight in gold,particularly flywheels,crankshafts,etc.

:eek: I've got flywheels, valve plates, reeds, gasket sets, seals and was going to turf them !

[rick130]

I'd never heard of Lindberg-Foster until last week.

An old Jazz drummer I know was telling me he worked for them back in Melbourne in the late 40's assembling the cabinets.

[rick130]

Some of the earlier electric domestic cabinets ran on methyl chloride or sulfer something,maybe dioxide.

Yep, SO2, sulphur dioxide.

Well before my time, but I inherited a bottle back in the early nineties.

The old 1927 or 1930 GE monitor top dad had that only died about eight or so years ago ran on Methyl Formate.
That was a beer fridge. :D

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2015/07/1033.jpg

[digger]

There was also a DEFENDER fridge,

when new it was cutting edge stuff but they kept making them so long that the design was considered boxy and out of date, and I believed they also leaked ....

reminds me of something.... :)

[scarry]

:eek: I've got flywheels, valve plates, reeds, gasket sets, seals and was going to turf them !

Few yrs back the compresser rebuilding guys around here had given up looking for parts,as they couldn't source them anywhere.

[d2dave]

I'd never heard of Lindberg-Foster until last week.


If you watched some old episodes of Matlock police you would often see one in an old farm house.