23 Facts About Bendix Corporation

Bendix Corporation is an American manufacturing and engineering company which, during various times in its existence made automotive brake shoes and systems, vacuum tubes, aircraft brakes, aeronautical hydraulics and electric power systems, avionics, aircraft and automobile fuel control systems, radios, televisions and computers.

Founder and inventor Vincent Bendix initially began his corporation in a hotel room in Chicago in 1914 with an agreement with the struggling bicycle brake manufacturing firm, Eclipse Machine Company of Elmira, New York.

In 1942 Ernest R Breech became president of Bendix, moving from General Motors, and after performing brilliantly for Bendix by introducing GM management philosophies he then attracted the attention of Henry Ford II who induced him over to Ford where he finished his career.

Bendix Corporation was formally founded in 1924 in South Bend, Indiana, United States.

Bendix Corporation manufactured both hydraulic brake systems and a vacuum booster TreadleVac for its production lines for decades.

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In 1956, Bendix Corporation introduced Electrojector, a multi-point electronic fuel injection system, which was optional on several 1958 models of automobiles built by Chrysler.

Bendix Corporation Scintilla manufactured MIL SPEC electrical connectors of many styles.

In 1971, Bendix Corporation introduced the world's first true computerized ABS system on Chrysler's 1971 Imperial.

Under its present ownership by Honeywell, Bendix Corporation continues to manufacture automotive brakes and industrial brakes for a wide variety of industries.

In February 2020, Bendix Corporation announced that it would be moving its headquarters from Elyria, Ohio to Avon, with an expected opening date for its new facility of November 2021.

Bendix Corporation manufactured Radiological Dosimeters for Civil Defense during the cold war, they made a Family Radiation measurement kit for home use, which included a CDV-746 dosimeter and a CDV-736 Rate meter, which looked like a dosimeter.

Bendix Corporation ceased marketing the system by 1975 after it failed to attract interest.

In 1929 Vincent Bendix Corporation branched out into aeronautics and restructured the company as "Bendix Corporation Aviation" to reflect the new product lines.

Bendix Corporation supplied aircraft manufacturers with all types of hydraulic systems, for braking and flap activation, and introduced new devices such as a pressure carburetor which dominated the market during World War II.

Bendix Corporation sponsored the famous Bendix continental air race which started in 1931, and is known for the Bendix Trophy.

One product made by Bendix Corporation was a Land Mine Detecting set for the United States Army and United States Air Force in July 1952.

In 1956, the computer division of Bendix Corporation Aviation introduced the Bendix Corporation G-15, a mini computer which was the size of two tall filing cabinets.

The Bendix Corporation issued denials, stating that the units underwent 61 inspections during manufacture, in addition to inspections during installation and maintenance work, and insisted that had the insulation on the wires been breached at some point, it would have been detected and the unit replaced.

Bendix Corporation made the fuel system for the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird.

Bendix Corporation first manufactured domestic radios and phonographs for the retail market after WWII as an outgrowth of its production of aircraft radios.

In 1948 Bendix Corporation started to sell car radios directly to Ford and other auto manufacturers.

In 1982 Bendix Corporation launched a hostile takeover bid of the conglomerate, Martin Marietta.

Bendix Corporation bought the majority of Martin Marietta shares and in effect owned the company.