![]() This followed the marketing name of " Weather Eye" for Nash's fresh-air automotive heating and ventilating system that was first used in 1938. Ĭombining heating, cooling, and ventilating, the new air conditioning system for the Nash cars was called the "All-Weather Eye". This system was also compact and serviceable with all of its components installed under the hood or in the cowl area. ![]() This was the first mass market system with controls on the dash and an electric clutch. The Nash-Kelvinator corporation used its experience in refrigeration to introduce the automobile industry's first compact and affordable, single-unit heating and air conditioning system optional for its Nash models. ![]() In 1954, the Nash Ambassador was the first American automobile to have a front-end, fully integrated heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning system. Nash integrated system Logo on a 1957 car with AMC factory-installed air-conditioning system All of these Frigidaire systems used separate engine and trunk mounted components. Ĭadillac, Buick, and Oldsmobile added air conditioning as an option on some of their models for the 1953 model year. Instead of plastic tubes mounted on the rear window package shelf as on GM cars, small ducts directed cool air toward the ceiling of the car where it filtered down around the passengers instead of blowing directly on them, a feature that modern cars have lost. The system drew in more outside air than contemporary systems thus, reducing the staleness associated with automotive air conditioning at the time. As the highest capacity unit available at that time, the system was capable of quickly cooling the passenger compartment and also reducing humidity, dust, pollen, and tobacco smoke. It was operated by a single switch on the dashboard marked with low, medium, and high positions. The Airtemp was more advanced than rival automobile air conditioners by 1953. Walter Chrysler had seen to the invention of Airtemp air conditioning in the 1930s for the Chrysler Building, and had offered it on cars in 1941-42, and again in 1951-52. The 1953 Chrysler Imperial was one of the first production cars in twelve years to offer modern automobile air conditioning as an option, following tentative experiments by Packard in 1940 and Cadillac in 1941. The price, at $274 (US$5,764 in 2022 dollars ), was unaffordable to most people in depression/pre-war America.The several feet of plumbing going back and forth between the engine compartment and trunk proved unreliable in service.(Cold air would still sometimes enter the car with any movement as the drive belt was continuously connected to the compressor-later systems would use electrically operated clutches to remedy this problem.) It had no temperature thermostat or shut-off mechanism other than switching the blower off.It was superseded by more efficient systems in the post-war years. ![]()
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