Mehano 50' Thermo King Reefer ~ JOHNSON WAX ~ Rd# JWAX 49000 North American

Description: We try to be Friendly to our international customers especially with our: UPS Standard to Canada,Frederick McKinley Jones became interested in designing air conditioning systems. According to one anecdote, he was inspired one summer evening while sitting in his car by a lake; he had to roll up the windows to keep mosquitos out and, of course, the car became unbearably warm with the windows shut. Jones did develop such a system but had difficulty persuading Numero that his automobile air conditioner would sell. Then, in 1938, Numero found himself in a friendly golf course wager that changed the direction of the company. Upon hearing that one of his golf four-some had lost a truck load of poultry to the heat, Numero prodded another of the four, an air conditioning man, to create a reliable cooling system for the transport company. Experiments with transport air conditioning previously had met with limited success due to the damage caused by the vibration of the trucks and the lack of an independent power source. Numero said, in jest, that if the air conditioning expert could not come up with something, then he would. Numero's trucking friend took him seriously. What had begun as a joke resulted in a transport refrigeration business.In a 1949 Saturday Evening Post article, Steven M. Spencer noted that Jones was "largely responsible for the gasoline-powered automatic refrigerators that now keep thousands of tons of food fresh on long hauls from farm to packing house to consumer." Options for keeping perishable goods cool over a long-distance haul in the 1930s were limited to old-fashioned ice and salt methods or to electric refrigeration units which required layovers at power sources. However, Jones applied his knowledge of race car shock proofing and automobile air conditioning to the transport refrigeration project. The result was a 2,200-pound apparatus mounted under a trailer. A four-cylinder, gasoline-powered engine drove the compressor and a starter-generator-flywheel combination controlled the engine and the expansion thermostat. That first model cost $30,000 to build and was sold for $1,500. Following test runs Jones pared the weight down by 400 pounds, and the transport company bought several more of the refrigeration units. Numero sold Ultraphone to RCA along with the patents on the electronic-sound-track equipment and the ticket dispensing machine, borrowed $10,000 on his life insurance, and formed the U. S. Thermo Control Company.Since the early product--first called the Thermotrol and soon renamed Thermo-King--tended to collect dirt and mud from the road and was also susceptible to excessive heat and damage from road debris, Jones soon returned to the drawing board. He redesigned the unit, mounting it on the upper front of the trailer where it was cooled by the truck's motion through the air. The gas engine, compressor, and condenser were mounted on the outside of a truck, while the evaporation coils were placed inside the truck's trailer. The new model weighed 950 pounds thanks to the lightweight aluminum compressor; the use of the porous alloy was considered unwise by some who believed the refrigerant would leak from the compressor. To see all our listings, visit: Ika's Train Store Note #1: I will combine shipping for multiple items. Please purchase the items but do *NOT* pay. I will review and calculate shipping as close as to what I have to pay. I will then forward an invoice with the adjusted shipping. If you do pay ahead of this recalculation, I will refund the shipping difference as part of preparing the items for shipment. Note #2: I want you to be happy with your purchase and would appreciate you leaving positive feedback. In the event you are not, please contact me immediately before leaving feedback so we may resolve it. Thank you. Note #3: If not previously stated item(s) come from a smoke-free environment with cats. Note #4: This is a Grandma & Grandpa shop. We have a 4 business day shipping window (this means that if you pay for your order on a Friday it may not get shipping until the following Thursday). We do combine shipping especially when we are asked about it.If you want combined shipping, please purchase all your items in one order. If you purchase items in more than one order, send us a message so that we know about the additional items and box the orders together. (When items are bought in multiple orders, we do not always notice they were bought by the same person unless we are notified by the buyer.) We refund extra shipping charges when combined shipping is requested. If we ship items separately, we do not issue a shipping refund.For our international customers: YES!! we do combine shipping. The most economical way for you to buy multiple items from us is for you to send us a list of the items you want to buy. Do not purchase them as they are listed!! (This leads to higher than necessary fees & shipping.) Send us a complete list of all the items you want. Then we will cancel the listings for the items and turn them into a special listing just for you (We'll send you the listing named before making it active). It will have your full purchase with the correct shipping box size and weight. This saves you on the international fees & shipping.

Price: 16 USD

Location: London, Ohio

End Time: 2024-09-16T22:23:29.000Z

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