Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Compressors – Household
By the latter half of the 1930’s there were an increasing number of manufacturers all bargaining for a spot in the now rapidly expanding, but increasingly over crowed North American, domestic refrigeration market. It left many of its founders such as Kelvinator and Frigidaire struggling for survival. It was soon evident that marketing, in addition to sound, innovative engineering was needed. The Brunner Manufacturing Co. would leave the domestic field to focus on its commercial and industrial markets, leaving behind this historic examples of a well engineered compressors, as marker of times past, Brunner, circa 1939. [see also #94 and Group 5.02 items]
