hahaha.... a fog machine it may just be.... when you open it up its so damn cold in there that the fog overflows the rim.......hahahaha.
Yeah it very weird. I cannot even find a company in South Africa that even manufactured fridges for the beverage industry !!! I know there were a LOT of them when I was growing up as a kid. Every fuel station, and every corner grocery shop both big and small had these in them. There must have been many many many thousands of them made. There are a few Cavelier chest fridges around, but I think a huge portion of these fridges disappeared into oblivion over the years. There just doesn't seem to be any information locally either.
From memory, I seem to recall this style and shape, which is making me think its 70's, possibly very early 80's. The compressor and working bits underneath are all still original. I doubt a single hand has touched it since it was delivered to which ever shop it sat in for years !!
I thought that maybe seeing the British had a rather large population in South Africa at the time that maybe these machines were imported by Coca Cola from the UK, but cannot find any info. ( thought maybe Westinghouse UK or something similar). I know that Fuchs was quite big in South Africa at the time and did do refrigeration, but again I seem to come up with a blank.
Hmmmm.... so maybe mine is like the golden nugget of Coke fridges cause nobody has ever seen it.....hahaha.... Must be worth billions .......hahaha ( yeah right.... I'm so unlucky that if I was one of triplets, I'd be the one bottle fed.....
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