Vincent Hugo Bendix (63) founder of the Bendix Corporation of Chicago in 1907 to manufacture automobiles, ‘Bendix Buggies’, died


Tuesday 27th March 1945

Vincent Hugo Bendix (63) founder of the Bendix Corporation of Chicago in 1907 to manufacture automobiles, ‘Bendix Buggies’, died. After producing 7000 vehicles the company failed two years later, but in 1910, Bendix invented and patented the Bendix drive, a gear that could engage an engine at low rotational speed and then fly back and disengage automatically at higher speed; this drive made the electric starter practical for automobile engines, and later, for engines in aircraft and other motorized vehicles.


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