[Bmcu] Fw: Fwd: AUTOMOBILE AIR CONDITIONERS

[Jonathan Hermance]

Floyd,

I believe 1946 to be a little late for being the first automotive AC. The 1940 Packard 160 Grand Touring Sedan with one of seventeen automotive applications of the Packard Marine straight eight I had in college had brackets for the compressor on the engine, brackets for the cooling core in the trunk below the package shelf under the back window, and two holes in the shelf for plastic tail pipe end-like elbow vents that introduced refrigerated air to the cabin. Some sales brochures for Packard 160 and 180 models show the vents sticking up behind the seat back to the outer sides of the split rear window. 

Jon

----- Original Message -----
From: "Floyd Inman" <floyd_inman at msn.com>
To: "Team BMCU" <bmcu at autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2012 2:59:49 PM
Subject: [Bmcu] Fw: Fwd: AUTOMOBILE AIR CONDITIONERS





  














  True or false ? 
  
  


The Goldberg Brothers - 



The Inventors of the Automobile Air Conditioner 

Here's a little fact for automotive buffs or just to dazzle your friends. 

The four Goldberg brothers, Lowell, Norman, Hiram and Max, invented and developed the first automobile air-conditioner. On July 17, 1946, the temperature in Detroit was 97 degrees. 

The four brothers walked into old man Henry Ford's office and sweet-talked his secretary into telling him that four gentlemen were there with the most exciting innovation in the auto industry since the electric starter. 

Henry was curious and invited them into his office. 

They refused and instead asked that he come out tothe parking lot to their car. They persuaded him to get into the car, which was about 130 degrees, turned on the air conditioner, and cooled the car off immediately. 

The old man got very excited and invited them back to the office, where he offered them $3 million for the patent. 
The brothers refused, saying they would settle for $2 million, but they wanted the recognition by having a label, 'The Goldberg Air-Conditioner', on the dashboard of each car in which it was installed. 

Now old man Ford was more than just a little anti-Semitic, and there was no way he was going to put the Goldberg's name on two million Fords. 

They haggled back and forth for about two hours and finally agreed on $4 million and that just their first names would be shown. 

And so to this day, all Ford air conditioners show -- 


Lo, Norm, Hi, and Max -- on the controls. 
  
  
  
  
  
And, as I was reminded today at the Healey Days Car Show, only 5 weeks before Miner’s Day Parade in Park City 
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