[AT] Vehicle cooling before AC

[Cecil Bearden]

I had one of those on a MF760 combine cab.  When you went over a 
terrace, the water spilled over into the fan and you got an extra shot 
of "cooler"  If the water was not changed very often, it really got dirty
Cecil.

On 2/12/2019 7:59 PM, Kenneth Gene Waugh wrote:
> I never used the coolers in a vehicle, but did use a swamp cooler on 
> my house in Arizona years ago---with low humidity, they were a big help.
> Gene
> Elgin, IL
>
> On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 7:55 PM ustonThomas Mehrkam 
> <tmehrkam at sbcglobal.net <mailto:tmehrkam at sbcglobal.net>> wrote:
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>     My dad had one of those. I remember driving through New Mexico,
>     Arazoia ect on vacation. They worked ok as long as you kept water
>     in them and pulled the string occasionally.
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>         On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 4:11 PM, Rena Glover Goss
>         <rlgoss at twc.com <mailto:rlgoss at twc.com>> wrote:
>         Yes.  I remember using one on a trip across Iowa, Nebraska,
>         Kansas, and Colorado.  It brought the temperature down a bit,
>         but not enough to make it worthwhile.
>
>         Larry
>
>         ---- Brian <bcolt1 at yahoo.com <mailto:bcolt1 at yahoo.com>> wrote:
>         > Yes, they were called swamp coolers. They worked by
>         evaporation, and the car had to be moving right along. Thus,
>         they were not much help in humid areas, or when moving slowly
>         in traffic. I never actually saw one up here in New England,
>         but recall seeing articles about them.
>         >
>         >
>         >   1. OT: Vehicle Cooling before refrigerated A/C (Ray Trimble)
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>         > Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2019 17:43:17 +0000 (UTC)
>         > From: Ray Trimble <farmall_1947 at yahoo.com
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>         > Does anyone remember seeing units outside the passenger
>         window a device that looked like a canister vacuum cleaner
>         before A/C became common. I remember them as a young boy? in
>         the early 50's going to Amarillo. We didn't have one just
>         wondering if they really worked. I suppose they could offer
>         some cooling if they had ventures in it.
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