[AT] Vehicle cooling before AC

[Ralph Goff]

On 2/12/2019 4:46 PM, bloomis at charter.net wrote:
>
> A California thing for sure. If you check out low rider cars, i.e. 
> early 50 models, particularly Chevys, a lot of them have them on the 
> restored products. Same so with 'eyebrows'. Well a bit huge but you 
> get the point.
>
> Bradford
>
Those big tubular things hanging on the side of the car were known as 
"swamp coolers" I believe. We never saw them on vehicles but there was 
something similar on the

early tractor cabs. Known as a cab cooler. It had a big foam sponge 
filter that was kept soaked in water by a pump. The cab fan drew air 
through it and blew the somewhat

cooled air into the cab. It was better than nothing but nowhere close to 
a good air conditioner.

Ralph in Sask.




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