Front loading washing machine with gearbox/transmission

[gizmo]

that fridge is Electrolux, an absorption fridge not compressor fridge, quite possibly a gas fridge.

 

[circlew]

Thanks for the reply. Guess it would be similar to a Servel refrigerator, which were advertised as being totally silent in operation.

 

[adam-aussie-vac]

i wonder

how would a fridge like that work?

 

[chestermikeuk]

Gas Fridge

Was wondering if the box on top left is an exhaust chimney fitted to the outside for fumes to be vented outside ?

 

[adam-aussie-vac]

Oh, I wondered what that was

I thought it looked like someone cut up a bit of a mailbox and just shoved it there to keep the shelf up

 

[gizmo]

I reckon that looks like an outdoors vent for the fridge gases. Suggests it is an lpg fridge.

this 1939 film shows how a gas fridge works...
(actually the explanation is pretty terrible, but it is quaint...)

google "how gas fridges work" or "how absorption fridges work."

 

[simpsomatic]

Kerosene

Interesting article

Australian food history timeline-first domestic refrigerator

The first commercially available, Australian-made domestic refrigerator to operate without ice was produced by Edward Hallstrom in 1923.

australianfoodtimeline.com.au