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The name-in-other-cities boundary: Bendix, placed verb by verb

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ITEM 4 · DUG — THE BOUNDARY ARTICLE THE CHECKLIST ORDERS, PRINTED WHOLE

One famous technology name hangs over this corridor, and this article places every verb of it outside this ground, in print, so credit can never drift east by osmosis. The name is Bendix. Founded: in South Bend, in 1924, by Vincent Bendix, around the brake. Engineered and built: in South Bend — brake systems, then aviation brakes, carburetors, starters, hydraulics and instruments; the wartime expansion and the postwar automotive lines, including the disc-brake work, are South Bend plant record. Built elsewhere under the same name: the Bendix radios and televisions of the postwar consumer years were the product of the firm's radio division in Baltimore; the Bendix G-15 computer of 1956 was designed and built by the firm's computer division in Los Angeles; the Bendix washing machines that carried the name into American laundries were built by the firm's home-appliance operation, not in Indiana at all. Each verb — invented, engineered, built, sold — belongs to a named city, and none of the cities is Osceola.

The same discipline is applied to the corridor's other great name in one line: Studebaker's vehicles were engineered and built in South Bend (with assembly also elsewhere in the firm's later years), and the Businesses leg's dealerships article has already drawn the local consequence — the franchise map of the county ran around this town, not through it. Notre Dame's technology firsts — Green's wireless of 1899, the computing center below — are a university's, in South Bend's ground. The stories-mysteries leg prints a general other-Osceolas boundary shelf for the town's namesakes; this article is the technology shelf of the same discipline: on this ground, the famous names are neighbors. Neighbors are not ancestors, and this build does not adopt them.

Sources: The Bendix corporate record as carried in the South Bend Tribune's 2026 history and the standard company histories (founding, South Bend, 1924; the brake and aviation lines; the radio division at Baltimore; the G-15 at Los Angeles; the appliance line) — boundary record, read November 2026. Businesses leg, Dealerships article (the Studebaker franchise map around this town). Stories-mysteries leg (the namesake boundary shelf). Register row #570.

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Source: The name-in-other-cities boundary: Bendix, placed verb by verb, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/osceola/technology/row-570-the-name-in-other-cities-boundary-bendix/