I hate to defreez the fridge!
My maternal grandfather bought in the '50's or early '60's and <<Pinguin>> fridge! This where the refrigerators ever to be made in Romania - they where made by "Klement Gottwald"/I.M.E.B./U.M.E.B. * factory from Bucharest, begening with 1957? and up to around 1962-1963. Many people don't even know about them or that in Bucharest there wehere ever made refrigerators!
Thet think that <<Fram>> (manufactured by I.M. Sadu ** from Sibiu County, under "Frigero" licence) or even "Frige.ro. ***/Artic" (this where with compressor and made under "Thomson-Huston" licence) where the 1st refrigerators to be made in Romania. Well, he took it in the countryside, where my relatives kept it as a cupborad. I tryed to save it, but with no succes. To the museum gave a beeep about it. And this year my relatives salled it to scrap iron so they will buy themselvs a gas tank for the stove. And they dind't talled me. I would better salled some railwaycars from my toy-train and save that very rare refrigeator - I don't think that they ever been made more then 30.000-50.000 of it and I never seen one besides the one that belonged to my grandfather.
* I.M.E.B. = Īntreprinderea de Maşini Electrice Bucureşti = The Bucharest Electric Machines Enterprise... U = Uzina (The Plant).
** I.M. = Īntreprinderea Metalurgică = (the) Metalurgicall Plant
*** "Frige.ro." was the acronim for "Frigider Romānesc (Romanian Refrigerator)"