Ideal · Model archive
Original specifications and identification notes preserved from the Soda-Machines.com reference archive.
- Vending Capacity
- 50 7oz-12oz Bottles
- Precool Capacity
- 80-7oz Bottles; 60-12oz Bottles
- Dimensions
- 42" high, 37" wide, 19 1/2" deep
- Weight
- 204 lbs.
- Production Dates
- Late 1940's to the late 1950's
- Price New
- $345.00
- Comments
- The model 55B is probably the most common of Ideal's vendors. It's a "slider" type of cooler similar to the Glasco GBV-50 and like other "sliders", it could vend five flavors and different size bottles. Many coolers of this type were "embossed" with a variety of soda brands such as Pepsi, 7-Up, Royal Crown, Hires, Barqs and others. Ideal also manufactured these coolers without "embossed" lettering for generic usage. There's an access door on the right side of the cooler for loading sodas into the vending rack as well as the precool area.
Archive record 373. Specifications and historical notes were recovered from Soda-Machines.com. Measurements, capacities, dates, and original prices are presented as recorded in the source material.