SPECIFICATIONS:

Vending Capacity:    50 Bottles

Precool Capacity:    80 Bottles

Dimensions:    42" high, 37" wide, 19 1/2" deep

Weight:    204 lbs.

Production Dates:    Late 1940's to the late 1950's

Price New:    N/A

Comments:    The model 55B is probably the most common of Ideal's vendors. It's a "slider" type of cooler similar to the Glasco GBV-50 and like other "sliders", it could vend multiple flavors and different size bottles. Many coolers of this type were "embossed" with a variety of soda brands such as Pepsi, 7-Up, Royal Crown, Hires, Barqs and others. Ideal also manufactured these coolers without "embossed" lettering for generic usage. There's an access door on the right side of the cooler for loading sodas into the vending rack as well as the precool area.