Posted 12 years ago
nancycorbin
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NEED INFO - I have an early Coca Cola refrigerated drink box. We bought this about 15 years ago from an old antique store and it has been sitting in our garage. I do not know what year it is but it must be early because its coolent was Sulfer Dioxide and I believe that predated Ammonia. The tags are not totally readable but what I can see says:
Tag on box frame:
Designed for Coca Cola Bottling Company
Patten applied for
Manufactured under licence from Coca Cola for the Coca Cola Bottling Company by Tennessee Furniture Corp, Chattanoga Tn., serial number 3172
Tag on motor:
Sulfer Dioxide
Fridgidare Division General Motors, Dayton, United States of
America
Minimum test pressure applied pounds lose side 125
Charge pounds 1 1/4 sulfer dioxided
Small tag below larger tag on motor:
1940319-OBC
It is restoreable condidtion, has the bottle opener but not the cap catcher box. It appears to have all of the motor/refrigerator parts but I am not sure.
Does anyone have an idea of its age or value?
Thanks so much for the info.
Have to 5cent posters want to know how much there worth.
1.12x16 summer pause Ira Roberts publishing,Inc 1975 litho in USA mint condition
2.1975 theatre poster I believe bottom a little torn can only read year and corte madera,California 94925 says after the theatre drink a glass of coca cola 5cents
Bottom reads"it relieves fatigue and excitement, and includes a sprit of thorough, restful satisfaction as delightful to the senses as coca cola is to the sense of taste.
Sold at all counts and carbonated in bottles.
I just found an embossed number on the inside wall of this drink box T-37-4. What does that mean?
The cooler is completely restore-able, but depending on how much one is willing to put into it. Being a sulfur dioxide cooler it was one of the first refrigerated boxes made for the Coca Cola Company. A different compressor and refrigerant would have to be installed to make it able to cool the water needed to keep the beverages cold. I'd say it was manufactured about 1928 - 31.
Some people just clean them up a bit, wax them up and buff them out for the rustic antic look, plug the holes so it don't leak, and use them in there man caves and using ice to cool their beverages. Looks very impressive to their friends. Hope this help in answering your questions and as far as value. People have paid many different asking prices in the past. I'd say anywhere from one hundred on up to 5 or 6 hundred depending on how bad they want them. Completely restore you know about what they want for them,.... say like about an arm and a leg.
We have the same machine. It was purchased used from Roddy Bottling company in the 1940's.