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Post# 503481   3/12/2011 at 09:46 (4,765 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)        

I have loaned Jeff the service manual for this for him to scan. Everything about the machine, from the cycle to the transmission says "BENDIX." With the way AVCO (Aviation Corporation), the owner and patent holder of the Bendix Automatic Home Laundry, tied up the rights, no one else could make a machine like this without running into a patent infringement lawsuit. It had to be bolted down and still only spun about as well as most combos; I think a wringer could squeeze water out of things after they were extracted in this machine, but with the big drum, it washed better than the small drum in the Bendix. It was obvious that Borg-Warner wanted a place holder in the automatic washer market until they could build their own top loading agitator type machine and this is how they did it.

AVCO bought Bendix because of the Bendix Radios. Radios were needed for the growing airplane industry in the 30s. It was like being a kept woman for Bendix. AVCO had a lot of money and talent which enabled Bendix to invent the automatic washer and the Duomatic, but when AVCO did not need the appliance division after WWII because they were making far more money on planes than washers, they sold Bendix appliances off in a way that doomed the name to oblivion in the marketplace within a couple of years, like a woman thrown out, penniless, after a long-term affair.



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