[AT] Vehicle cooling before AC

[HERBERT METZ]

I am quite sure that some of our central KS 'city people' that our family visited with when I was a kid used these before todays window air conditioning systems were on the market. Herb(GA)



> On February 12, 2019 at 9:54 PM Cecil Bearden <crbearden at copper.net> wrote:
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>     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. 
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>     On 2/12/2019 7:59 PM, Kenneth Gene Waugh wrote:
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>         > >         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
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> >         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:
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> > > >                    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.
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> > > >                    Larry
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> > > >                    ---- 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.
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> > > >                    >   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 mailto: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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