Bendix [2]

Bendix was a name associated with an experimental American automobile project developed in the early 1930s under the cover identity of the Steel Wheel Corporation, a front operated by Bendix Aviation Corporation in Elkhart, Indiana. In 1934, engineers at Bendix built a prototype vehicle to explore the possibility of entering automobile production. The project was carried out in secrecy, with the Steel Wheel Corporation name used to conceal the involvement…