The American Soda Machine Archive Manuals, history & restoration

Manufacturer archive

Beverage Air

Original reference photography from the Cola Machines archive. Select any image to inspect the machine, mechanisms, identification plates, and restoration details.

This reference catalog documents 12 Beverage Air machines. Surviving model records include production information spanning 1960 to 1970. Model-specific archive photography survives for 11 of the 12 entries.

This profile combines preserved company background with evidence from the individual machine records. Dates and model counts refer to documented examples in this collection, not an assertion that the catalog is complete.

12Models documented
11Models photographed
1960–1970Recorded date span
12Dated records

Beverage Air company history

Preserved background

Archive documentation notes that Beverage Air built coolers in Spartanburg, SC; Punxsutawney, PA; Brookville, Pa throughout the late 1960's and 1970's.

It appears they built non-coin operated coolers, both horizontal and vertical glass door versions.

What the machine archive shows

Evidence by model and date

The dated archive currently runs from Beverage Air BA-12S (Late 1960's – Early 1970's) through Beverage Air SF49S-W (Early 1960's, 1964). It contains 12 model records, 12 with recorded production dates and 11 with surviving model-specific photography.

The documented production footprint is distributed across 1960s (12). These totals describe this archive—not necessarily the company’s complete output—and will change if additional period records are recovered.

Beverage Air machines

12 model records

Research note: Profile scope is 12 archived machine records. Company background was independently restated from the site’s preserved manufacturer overview; view the archived source. Dates, photographs, and model counts come from the linked records. Where the preserved evidence is incomplete, the page says so instead of filling gaps with conjecture.