"THE IMPORTANCE OF COOLING SYSTEM SERVICE" 1950s OLIN MATHIESON SERVICE STATION SALES FILM 99284
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This color educational/training film is about the importance of servicing your car's cooling system. There is no copyright at the beginning or end of the film so the date of the production remains 1954 or 1955 as the film was produced by the Olin Mathieson Chemical Corporation and In 1954, Olin Corporation merged with Mathieson Chemical Corporation.
A temperature gauge goes up until it explodes cartoonishly into the opening title: The Importance of Cooling System Service (:09-:52). A automotive employee collects money for gas and then gets ready for class, he's taking a class on what goes on under a car's hood (:53-2:08). Class time. Tonight's topic: the cooling system. Our teacher explains what goes on in the cooling system. He shows what happens with corrosion. He shows a badly corroded cooling system to the class. A water distribution tube is damaged (2:09-5:20). Properly servicing cooling systems can save drivers money. He gives stats from 1953. A corrosion inhibitor is required, best twice a year, spring and fall. A discussion on anti-freeze. Leaving it in for more than 1 season is dangerous and can corrode. He gives a demonstration (5:21-9:40). A new inhibitor into the antifreeze doesn't work either, just clean it out. Convincing your customer can be done by showing an old corroded parts. Summer driving corrodes more than winter driving. A summer car should not have anti-freeze in it as it slows the octane of the gas down (9:41-11:53). Cost is discussed with why you should clean your cooling systems. He gives advice from the Society of Automotive Engineers on cleaning the anti-freeze. AAA has their advice as well as does the National Bureau of Standards (11:54-13:46). To build a good business you must cultivate customers who know you have their interests at heart. Spring drain out and cooling system care are important, class dismissed (13:47-14:34). Back at the shop, the cooling system is discussed. Spring cooling system business is the goal. The workers check people's cars. They did lots of spring drain outs and created customer goodwill. They keep badly corroded engine parts to show customers (14:35-16:53). End credits (16:54-17:15).
The Olin Corporation is an American manufacturer of ammunition, chlorine, and sodium hydroxide. Based in Clayton, Missouri, it traces its roots to two companies, both founded in 1892: Franklin W. Olin's "Equitable Powder Company" and the "Mathieson Alkali Works". After being headquartered for many years in Stamford, Connecticut, it is now headquartered in Clayton, Missouri. The company was started by Franklin W. Olin in East Alton, Illinois, as the Equitable Powder Company. Olin created the company for the purpose of supplying the area's coal mines and limestone quarries with explosives. Olin's blasting and gunpowder company expanded into the production of cartridges in 1898.
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It’s 2am and I’m about to go to the garage and flush the cooling system in my 1956 Oldsmobile. Hot damn, I haven’t changed the antifreeze since ‘59
I remember when I was a boy in the 60's there was no self service Gas Stations.
I'm a gearhead from the 1960s, so for those younger in the audience about that era . . .
I'm due for a "spring drainout." It's going to be tough now with all this social distance recommendations.
Complicated under the hood. Boy they don't have a clue of what's about to happen after 1973 wnd the Federal Emission standards.
I used to work at a radiator shop. It was the best place in town to take a leak.
Who's fired up? WE ARE!!! I feel like I've just been to an empowerment seminar.
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Now 5 years 100k (or so) and people still won't maintain their cooling system.
I haven't change my antifreeze in my van since I bought it 9 years ago ,over 200 thousand miles I only change the oil every 3k miles run great.
My how times have changed. Modern coolant keeps everything clean for a 100k miles and even then most go to junk yard surviving on “drain and fill” method of maintenance after that 100k mile mark. Did anyone notice the block drain next to the freeze plug the teacher drove out? Don’t see those nowadays.
Originally released in 1955. That's an April 1955 calendar on the wall at
fram filters cigarette machine in background
Back when this film was produced, $75 was equal to a week's wage for an American worker.
When did cars use water with corrosion inhibitors in the summer and 50/50 antifreeze and water in winter? At what point did car companies decide to use 50/50 ethylene glycol all year long?
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Some people say that America was not a great country back then. That we had so much progress yet to be made. They are right, in a way. The anti-freeze coolant only lasted a year.
I think my freeze plug is leaking because rad fluid is dripping from under the engine. Have no idea what to do because I can't even get to it. I just keep adding coolant every week.
Wasn't the Volkswagen in those days "air-cooled"?
FYI: Coolant systems are closed loop these days, I test mine every couple years and go from there but here is what MFG's say: