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20th c. · TESTED AT BOUNDARY SIZE; OSCEOLA: NONE

The distinction is the article. A licence is not a shipment: goods cross a border in the first case as paper and know-how, and the product is made abroad by another's hands. For this county's record the clearest verified instance is automotive, not aviation: the Studebaker US6 design was copied and built in Soviet factories from 1942 to shore up demand, and the Soviet postwar truck lines (ZiS/ZiL-151 and 157, GAZ-51) were based on its design — American design, foreign production, no South Bend truck shipped for those units (art-60-7 carries the shipped flow separately, as the row's distinction requires). The pattern's named firm, Bendix of South Bend (founded there in 1924; brakes, then aviation equipment), held and controlled, on the general record, many important patents and licensed its name and designs to partner producers — the Bendix home-laundry line was produced by a partner company that licensed its name — but a Bendix foreign production licence at document strength (licensee, country, product, date) was not established from open sources, and none is asserted: settler, Bendix / Honeywell licensing records and the trade press. Osceola itself licensed nothing to anyone; it had nothing to license.

Sources: Studebaker US6 record (Soviet copying from 1942; ZiL/GAZ derivatives); Bendix Corporation general record (founded South Bend 1924; patent/licensing posture; partner-produced laundry line) — foreign licence at document strength not established, named in the article.

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Source: Licensed production abroad, distinguished from shipped goods, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/osceola/exports/licensed-production-abroad-distinguished-from-shipped-goods/