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1919 — present
South Bend's largest automobile record, measured in cars touched, is not a marque at all: it is the parts inside other men's cars. The Bendix starter drive went onto the industry by the millions; Bendix four-wheel brakes, the Startix, the Stromberg carburetor lines and the company's aviation and automotive catalogue made the city's name a specification on order forms across the industry, and those records stand whole in the Businesses and Inventors sections, cross-referenced here as the brief of this section requires. The same is true of South Bend Lathe, whose machine tools equipped the shops that built and serviced the industry's cars: a supplier's record, carried in the Businesses section. This section's own component-side exhibit is the one above — the SWC, the single complete car the trade produced, which exists precisely to carry the catalogue in one body.
Sources:
- The Businesses and Inventors sections of this history — the Bendix automotive lines and the South Bend Lathe works, in full; this entry is their pointer, by design.