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Beautifully engraved certificate from the Bendix Helicopter, Inc. issued in 1946. This historic document has an ornate border around it with a vignette of the company logo. This item has the printed signatures of the Company’s President and Secretary and is over 56 years old.
Certificate Vignette In 1944, Vincent Bendix established Bendix Helicopters (later renamed Bendix Helicopters Inc.). The Bendix designer, Martin Jensen, devised the Bendix Model J single-seater which used a system of coaxial rotors and was driven by a 450hp Pratt & Whitney R-985 piston engine. This was followed by the Model K - with an enclosed tube and fabric fuselage but with a much smaller 100hp Continental C-100 engine. The Model K (NX41817) made its maiden flight in June 1945, but Bendix eventually ceased operations in 1949 without achieving certification.
Bendix Helicopter BENDIX, VINCENT HUGO - 1991 Born in Moline, Illinois, August 12, 1882, and christened Vincent Hugo Bendix. He never used his middle initial or name during his entire career. He was the son of a Methodist Clergyman, Jann Bengtson, a native of Amaland, Sweden, who was married to a Swedish farm girl whose maiden name was Anna Danielson. While in Moline the family name was changed to "Bendix". They later moved to Chicago, Illinois, then called the Swedish capitol. 1895 - At age 13 he worked for the Postal Telegraph Company in Chicago, Illinois as a messenger during school vacation. 1898 - He went to New York ,on his own at the age of 16, working as an elevator operator in a hospital. He later worked in their maintenance department, during which time he was taught practical electricity. From there, he took up typing and stenography, after which he worked in the accounting department of a brewery, and from there he obtained a position at the Lackawanna Railroad Co. After this he went to work for a New York law firm, at the same time acquiring his education in law. Even though his varied aforementioned undertakings were of short duration, due to his indomitable perseverance and ability, he decided to diverge to mechanical engineering, specializing in automobile and automobile engine design. It was in this profession he started his business career and laid an early foundation for his later phenomenal success. 1901 - In 1901 Bendix was hired by Glenn Curtiss (later a famous builder of airplanes) who was then building the Torpedo motorcycle.. During this period he gleaned extensive knowledge about the internal-combustion engine and the power-propelled vehicle. W hen he felt he had sufficient insight in this field he struck out for something better. 1902 - Married 1904 - He saw the auto buggy and decided to make this his Alma Mater in the automobile business. At this time Holsman of Chicago was one of the leaders in the auto buggy field and Bendix became his general sales manager and was instrumental in the successful marketing of the new and interesting Holsman high-wheel automobile. 1907-09 - With his background and experience he decided to become a buggy manufacturer himself. He designed the Bendix Motor Buggy, sold stock and organized an automobile firm. He subcontracted the building of this vehicle to the Triumph Motor Company of Cragin, Illinois. Two Sales and Service locations were established, one in Logansport, Indiana and another in Chicago, Illinois. Even though the venture started during the depression of 1907, some 7,000 of these motor buggies were built and sold before the Bendix firm went into bankruptcy. Debts resulting from this venture plagued Bendix for several years. 1910 - After Bendix's Auto Buggy failure he sold Cadillacs in Chicago at retail and later was Southern sales manager for the Haynes Motor Car. While engaged in those activities he had, in the back of his mind, the idea for the Bendix drive for electric starters and applied for patents on the idea. While marking time and waiting for the starter drive to develop into something tangible he attended the 1910 Chicago Automobile Show. Here he saw on display the newborn Ames Automobile, manufactured by the F. A. Ames Company of Owensboro, Kentucky which had been building some 20, 000 horse buggies a year, but decided to try the automobile business. Bendix saw its possibilities and propositioned Ames for a chance to develop the new car and Ames, admiring his push and energy, turned over to him the job of handling the automobile end of his buggy business. The advanced lines of the car made a big hit and the way orders piled up alarmed Ames as he was still horse-and-carriage minded and pined to go back and push his "Buggies Bred in Old Kentucky", which he did, cutting himself out of what promised to become an important automobile manufacturing business. It was while at Ames that Bendix met up with Herbert Sharlock, then manager of sales for the Ames horse buggy. As a result of this decision by Ames, Bendix seriously started developing the Bendix Starter Drive and Sharlock left his position with Ames and joined up with Bendix. They became inseparable life long friends and business associates. 1911-12 - The birth of the Bendix organization.... the idea and invention of an automatic starter drive, eliminating hand cranking of an automobile engine. Bendix spent two unsuccessful years peddling the idea and trying to find someone to make it for him. He finally submitted his invention to the Eclipse Machine Company of Elmira, New York to develop, produce and sell his starter drive under a license agreement in exchange for royalties during the life of the original patent. 1913 - Successfully marketed his starter drive through the Eclipse Machine Company of Elmira, New York. 1914 - First automobile t
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