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</head><body><p style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">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)<br></p><p style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><br></p><p style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><br></p><blockquote type="cite">On February 12, 2019 at 9:54 PM Cecil Bearden <crbearden@copper.net> wrote: <br> <br><p>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<br> Cecil. <br></p><div class="ox-093f85b7f9-moz-cite-prefix">On 2/12/2019 7:59 PM, Kenneth Gene Waugh wrote: <br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="ox-093f85b7f9-gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: large;">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.</div><div class="ox-093f85b7f9-gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: large;">Gene</div><div class="ox-093f85b7f9-gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: large;">Elgin, IL</div></div><br><div class="ox-093f85b7f9-gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="ox-093f85b7f9-gmail_attr">On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 7:55 PM ustonThomas Mehrkam < <a href="mailto:tmehrkam@sbcglobal.net">tmehrkam@sbcglobal.net</a>> wrote: <br></div><blockquote>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. <br id="ox-093f85b7f9-gmail-m_5891204483417226196yMail_cursorElementTracker_1550022358915"> <br><a id="ox-093f85b7f9-gmail-m_5891204483417226196ymail_android_signature_link" href="https://go.onelink.me/107872968?pid=InProduct&c=Global_Internal_YGrowth_AndroidEmailSig__AndroidUsers&af_wl=ym&af_sub1=Internal&af_sub2=Global_YGrowth&af_sub3=EmailSignature" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android</a><br><br><blockquote><div style="font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #6d00f6;"><div>On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 4:11 PM, Rena Glover Goss</div><div>< <a href="mailto:rlgoss@twc.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rlgoss@twc.com</a>> wrote:</div></div><div style="padding: 10px 0px 0px 20px; margin: 10px 0px; border-left: 1px solid #6d00f6;"><div dir="ltr">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. <br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Larry <br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">---- Brian < <a href="mailto:bcolt1@yahoo.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bcolt1@yahoo.com</a>> wrote: <br></div><div dir="ltr">> 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. <br></div><div dir="ltr">> <br></div><div dir="ltr">> <br></div><div dir="ltr">> 1. OT: Vehicle Cooling before refrigerated A/C (Ray Trimble) <br></div><div dir="ltr">> <br></div><div dir="ltr">> <br></div><div dir="ltr">> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- <br></div><div dir="ltr">> <br></div><div dir="ltr">> Message: 1 <br></div><div dir="ltr">> Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2019 17:43:17 +0000 (UTC) <br></div><div dir="ltr">> From: Ray Trimble < <a href="mailto:farmall_1947@yahoo.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">farmall_1947@yahoo.com</a>> <br></div><div dir="ltr">> To: " <a href="mailto:at@lists.antique-tractor.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">at@lists.antique-tractor.com</a>" < <a href="mailto:at@lists.antique-tractor.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">at@lists.antique-tractor.com</a>> <br></div><div dir="ltr">> Subject: [AT] OT: Vehicle Cooling before refrigerated A/C <br></div><div dir="ltr">> Message-ID: < <a href="mailto:708512546.2405992.1549993397237@mail.yahoo.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">708512546.2405992.1549993397237@mail.yahoo.com</a>> <br></div><div dir="ltr">> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" <br></div><div dir="ltr">> <br></div><div dir="ltr">> 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. 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