Though its origins aren’t completely well known, Space Conditioner earliest sightings of data plates on their equipment can be seen in 1950’s. Originally branded for Peerless, a brand that manufactured water heaters, Space Conditioner became one of their off-brand lineups of furnaces both gas and oil fired. Iron fireman would also see use in using the name of Space Conditioner throughout 1960. The particular usage of both companies as a parent company isn’t quite known, though sharing a brand wasn’t an unusual request. Honeywell for example, offered their thermostats to be branded with numerous companies in which the company would pay cost and a royalty for using an already trusted product.
Up until the early parts of the 1960’s the brand would see prominence until it was eventually acquired in 1968 by Dunham-Bush and formerly renamed to their parent company, completely dissolving the name. Today, very few are left that have either been picked away or are lying dormant tucked away.
Below shows some pictures of 3 distinct versions of the space conditioner. (Fig. A) was their baseline model, a plastic emblem. (Fig. B) was their medium range model and more efficient. The last emblems (Fig. C) and (Fig. D) were featured in both a Peerless and Iron Fireman version in the more expensive and higher efficient branded equipment. The branding for the last two show what their ambition for the brand had wanted to achieve: to look like the new era when space travel would have been possible after the early rocket tests to send a man on the moon.
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(Fig. B)
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