50s' Repair Shop Photo

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Originally Posted by Reece

Up on a shelf over the roundie on the left it looks like a refrigeration compressor and condenser? all connected by tubing with a mysterious box on the other side of the partition. Wonder what that was for.

I suspect it is a water cooled air conditioner. Compressor and water cooled heat exchanger on the left and evaporator box is on the right. Most trade and techinal schools also had a referigeration school. The unit looks custom made probably cobbled together by the students of the referigeration devision.