Two-page ad for Bendix Products in “The Saturday Evening Post,” December 30, 1933.
“Bendix Products have equipped over 50 million automobiles throughout the world.”
“Virtually every important manufacturer in the automotive and aviation industries looks to Bendix to supply one or more (frequently all) of the vital units for controlling power in his product. For this reason, what Bendix builds, and the way that Bendix builds, are important to every driver and owner. Starting, running or stopping, the control of power in your car, truck, bus or airplane – or even your motor boat – is more likely a Bendix responsibility. The ten famous Bendix chassis units diagrammed and explained [in this ad] are but the more widely known products in an array of precision mechanisms such as no other source in the industry can provide. All are leaders. Bendix makes all of them. Bendix invented – created – most of them. And Bendix warrants them, stands back of them, and commands them to you.” [From the ad copy]
The Bendix Corporation was a major producer of electronic components during World War II. After the war, it transitioned to consumer markets, expanding its product line to include radios and phonographs. The company introduced their first home radios in the late 1940s and ventured into the television market during the 1950s. Although popularly connected to washing machines, the Bendix Corporation itself never manufactured them. They were produced by a partner company that licensed the Bendix name.
Bendix ceased operations in 1983 when it was acquired by the Allied Corporation. It later became part of Honeywell, where the "Bendix" brand name is still used for certain automotive and aviation components. [Sources: Wikipedia and Bendix.com]
Two-page ad for Bendix Products in “The Saturday Evening Post,” December 30, 1933.
“Bendix Products have equipped over 50 million automobiles throughout the world.”
“Virtually every important manufacturer in the automotive and aviation industries looks to Bendix to supply one or more (frequently all) of the vital units for controlling power in his product. For this reason, what Bendix builds, and the way that Bendix builds, are important to every driver and owner. Starting, running or stopping, the control of power in your car, truck, bus or airplane – or even your motor boat – is more likely a Bendix responsibility. The ten famous Bendix chassis units diagrammed and explained [in this ad] are but the more widely known products in an array of precision mechanisms such as no other source in the industry can provide. All are leaders. Bendix makes all of them. Bendix invented – created – most of them. And Bendix warrants them, stands back of them, and commands them to you.” [From the ad copy]
The Bendix Corporation was a major producer of electronic components during World War II. After the war, it transitioned to consumer markets, expanding its product line to include radios and phonographs. The company introduced their first home radios in the late 1940s and ventured into the television market during the 1950s. Although popularly connected to washing machines, the Bendix Corporation itself never manufactured them. They were produced by a partner company that licensed the Bendix name.
Bendix ceased operations in 1983 when it was acquired by the Allied Corporation. It later became part of Honeywell, where the "Bendix" brand name is still used for certain automotive and aviation components. [Sources: Wikipedia and Bendix.com]