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« Reply #20 on: August 15, 2012, 09:32:18 am »

Makes sense. That's what I was picturing initially...the small catcher.
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« Reply #21 on: August 15, 2012, 05:54:16 pm »

There are three rails on the bottom of mine, not counting the two outside rails. They are flat. I notice on some other Chest the rails have a hump in the center. Do you know if these are always the later models?

The humps were stamped into the rails to help stiffen them & keep them from warping under load, they also provided a nice raised "rub-rail" so the empty cases didn't gouge the paint of the rails.
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« Reply #22 on: August 16, 2012, 08:27:58 am »

I would guess and say the models you see that have the hump are models that did not have a compressor, those humps would help the bottle crate slide in and out. The flat cross members would typically point to a compressor being mounted….just a guess. I also re-read your post about the 38 in the top corner of the data plate. You just might be correct, I looked at mine and it has a 41, that’s about the year I estimated it to be. oh
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« Reply #23 on: August 17, 2012, 06:37:00 am »

That makes sense; the cases would slide better.
I asked two other chest owners to look at their Identification tags and one had a number in the corner that seemed to correspond to the year. The other one was blank, but I’m convinced it indicates the year, until convinced otherwise.  smile
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« Reply #24 on: August 24, 2012, 03:54:20 pm »

This magazine has an article with a section about identifying the age of coolers. Janet (Fun-Tronics) submitted the piece to the magazine.

http://www.antiquebackroads.com/AntiqueBackroadsSpring2012.pdf

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« Reply #25 on: August 24, 2012, 04:00:25 pm »

Awesome!!!  Thank you   biggrin
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« Reply #26 on: August 25, 2012, 09:14:22 am »

Great Article, but I'm still confused  darn After looking at Janets's codes I can see Mine is a Westinghouse, but the last three letters throw me. W= Westinghouse, N= ?, B=8, R=1 SEE PHOTO
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« Reply #27 on: August 25, 2012, 10:16:52 am »

Great Article, but I'm still confused  darn After looking at Janets's codes I can see Mine is a Westinghouse, but the last three letters throw me. W= Westinghouse, N= ?, B=8, R=1 SEE PHOTO

Is it a pre or post WW-II chest?
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« Reply #28 on: August 25, 2012, 10:50:21 am »

Is it a pre or post WW-II chest?

I would think so the lids are a butterfly type.  The post war cooler hinge front to back?  I noticed that when doing the WD-10.  Its a post war box, with pre war lids?
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« Reply #29 on: August 25, 2012, 12:14:11 pm »

How do you know they are pre war lids?
I know in some Collectable there are transition items made. EXAMPLE: Daisy produced a BB gun in 1957, but some of their stock were used on 1958's.
Does anyone know if this happened?
My Lids are blank, no embossed letters on underside
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