The defence city, firm by firm, every firm named

The South Bend build's record, firms individually; none on township ground

South Bend's defence industry was carried in this build as one pointer sentence; it is printed here firm by firm, at boundary size, because the checklist asks for firms and this township's war story is unintelligible without them. Studebaker first and largest: the wagon firm of 1852 that by the Second World War stopped civilian production entirely for war work — just under 200,000 US6 six-by-six trucks (the trade record's total is 197,678), most going overseas, many to the Soviet Union; Wright Cyclone R-1820 engines for the B-17; and the M29 Weasel — while more than 5,600 of its own workers served and 111 died; its proving ground west of the city tested Army vehicles under the Ordnance contract of 29 March 1943. Bendix second: the components firm whose brakes, carburettors, starters and aviation instruments, in the Tribune's summary, made the parts "to keep it in the air and land it" — the war's invisible supplier, and after 1966 the proving ground's owner. Oliver third, the plough works whose wartime story is the agricultural front's machinery, named here at the strength of its Register record as the county's implement giant. The succession line fourth: Studebaker's General Products Division, builder of military vehicles after the car works closed, passed to Kaiser Industries and in 1970 to American Motors, surviving today as AM General — the Humvee's maker, the defence employer that outlived the defence city that created it. Every one of these firms stood in South Bend or Mishawaka; none stood in Union Township, whose war production was its farms, carried in the industry addenda. The overview sentence this replaces was true; it was not enough, and this is the firm-by-firm form the floor requires.