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Catalog Number
2001.111.6a-b
Title
Translation: edne
Description
a) Brown and taupe, painted metal "Flomatic - 400" diffuser from Hart & Cooley; "heating " and "cooling" arrows are on left side with red signal (heat) and blue signal (cool) indicator disc on right side; handle at lower right; attached cardboard instruction tag printed in red and blue; "Hart & Cooley Manufacturing Co., Division of Allied Thermal Corp., Holland, Michigan"; appears unused; 1965.b)6 1/4" x 18 3/8" x 3" heavy cardboard box for register; black lettering on side "H & C Registers/Grilles, Hart & Cooley Mfg. Co., Holland, Mich., U.S.A., Division of Allied Thermal Corp."; partially torn white label with "Old H. & C Flomatic - 400 diffuser"; fair condition.
History
August Landwehr, a Holland, MI businessman and resident, arranged in 1924 for Hart & Cooley to move to Holland, MI. The thought behind this was for Hart & Cooley to supply the warm air registers for Landwehr's Holland Furnace Co. furnaces.
Hart & Cooley was located at 50 East 8th Street in Holland, MI, along the south side of the street, near Walnut Ave.
During World War 2 Hart & Cooley shifted production from registers to 60mm mortar-shell casings. In the 1950s Hart & Cooley designed a line of grills and registers for the newer furnaces being produced,
In 1986 Hart & Cooley became part of Chicago-based Eagle Industries. In 1990 Hart and Colley workers went on strike, which led to a decline in sales and, eventually, a departure of Hart and Cooley from Holland, MI.
Gift of
Hart & Cooley, Inc.