The works divided — Bosch, Honeywell, and the wheels-and-brakes plant

1983 – TODAY

The succession, printed once here: The Bendix Corporation's own course out of the city is told across this section: headquarters to Detroit in the late 1930s and to Southfield in 1971; the corporation bought by the Allied Corporation in 1983; AlliedSignal formed in the 1985 merger; AlliedSignal merged with Honeywell in 1999 and took the Honeywell name. The Bendix Aviation plant in South Bend was divided, in the 1990s, into two buildings: one is now Bosch, the other Honeywell — on the Monon Society's record of the city's works. Those two names are the modern technical employers of the old Bendix ground, and the entry now takes each at its documented size.

Honeywell Aerospace, 3520 Westmoor Street: The state's own permit record describes the plant exactly: a "stationary aircraft landing systems manufacturing operation" at 3520 Westmoor Street, South Bend, in the Indiana Department of Environmental Management's Title V permit of 6 July 2020, naming Honeywell International Inc. as responsible official. What it makes, in the union record of the plant's own workers, is aircraft wheels and braking systems — for the Boeing 737, the B-52 bomber and the F-35 fighter. The plant stands on ground with a labor first attached to it: the Bendix sit-down strike of November 1936, the United Auto Workers' first sit-down, whose full telling stands in this build's Controversies section. The modern chapter is documented at the same weight: in May 2016 Honeywell locked out the plant's UAW Local 9 workforce — the lockout began 9 May 2016, in the union's account, after the company sought to raise health-care costs and end retiree coverage for new hires; the average plant wage stood at $21.83 an hour. The dispute ran into 2017, and the plant's work continued around it. The current operating record shows the plant's craft plainly — its machining postings of the present decade call for operators, programmers and inspectors of computer-numerical-control milling and lathe work on wheels and brake components. Bosch's documented South Bend technical act of the period is of a different shape: it was one of the founding capital contributors to the St. Joe Valley Metronet — named in the fiber entry below — the auto-parts giant putting founding money into the city's data infrastructure.

Sources:

1. Monon Society, "South Bend, Indiana" — the former Bendix Aviation plant divided in the 1990s into two buildings, one now Bosch and one now Honeywell.
2. Indiana Department of Environmental Management, Title V Operating Permit, Honeywell International Inc., 3520 Westmoor St., South Bend (6 July 2020) — the plant described as a stationary aircraft landing systems manufacturing operation.
3. Portside / UAW Local 9 account (28 February 2017) — wheels and braking systems for the Boeing 737, B-52 and F-35; the lockout from 9 May 2016; the $21.83 average wage; the plant on the site of the November 1936 sit-down strike.
4. Bendix Corporation, standard company record — Allied's 1983 purchase; the AlliedSignal–Honeywell merger of 1999.
5. ChoiceLight, Inc. — Robert Bosch Corp. among the St. Joe Valley Metronet's founding capital contributors (the Metronet entry below).