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In the News (Sat 26 Dec 09)

  
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Bendix Opens Safety Technology Learning Effort for Insurance Industry with Zurich Demonstration
For over 75 years Bendix has been setting the industry safety standard for commercial vehicle air brake charging and control systems.
As members of the Knorr-Bremse Group – the global leader in braking technologies – over 2,000 dedicted Bendix employees throughout North America are driven to deliver powerful, effective solutions for improved vehicle performance, safety, and overall operating cost through the absolute highest levels of technology, service and product reliability.
www.bendix.com   (129 words)

  
  CD Baby: DR BENDIX: Life Is A Rocky Road - from jkloss
In the spring of 2002 Dr BenDix recorded a CD titled "Life Is A Rocky Road" to help promote their songwriting, and musical interpretations.
BenDix is born (1955) high up north in Norway.
BenDix grabbed the guitar at 7 years of age and he has played in a band since he was 14 years old.
www.cdbaby.com /cd/drbendix/from/jkloss   (711 words)

  
 Reinhard Bendix   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Bendix held guest professorships at Columbia University, the Free University of Berlin, the University of Constance, St. Catherine's and Nuffield Colleges at Oxford, Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and the University of Heidelberg.
Bendix wrote in the areas of political and social theory as well as historical studies of society and politics.
In honor of Professor Bendix, the Institute of International Studies has established the Reinhard Bendix Memorial Research Fellowship for graduate students in the field of political and social theory or historic studies of society and politics.
globetrotter.berkeley.edu /faculty/Bendixbio.html   (457 words)

  
 Cultural Analysis, Volume 1, 2000: The Pleasures of the Ear/Regina Bendix   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Central to Bendix's discussion is a strong sense of the immediacy of sound; she argues that the acoustic is "a great deal less subject to … social ordering than are other, more visible sensual experiences," a position shared by other scholars writing about the phenomenology of sound.
Bendix makes audible an internal conundrum, which many of us have noted in our own work and that of others; the pleasures that bring us to, and keep us, in a field often remain marginal and mute in our own writing.
Bendix connects this conundrum to a third striking observation—the slow and slaunchwise movement towards the pleasures of performance, auditory and otherwise, which has centrally informed the ethnography of communication but has not been fully realized within it.
socrates.berkeley.edu /~caforum/volume1/vol1_article3.html   (8235 words)

  
 Bendix
Bendix Helicopters occupied a building on East Main Street in Stratford, Connecticut, USA from 1945 to 1949.
Jimmie Doolittle won the first Bendix race and trophy for his transcontinental flight from California to the Cleveland Air Races at a speed of 223 miles per hour.
Bendix died in March, 1945, the company was reorganized and moved the operations to Stratford, where a labor force with aircraft, especially helicopter, experience was more available now that the war had ended
www.helis.com /UpTo50s/f_bendix.php   (461 words)

  
 Oddjob Motors - Bendix Eclipse
Bendix had run up a lot of debt with all his acquisitions and was in financial trouble.
The government deemed Bendix an important company for the war many knew was coming, he was "retired" and the bean counters took over - one of the first things they did was sell off the outboard area.
The down side to the Bendix motors is that they are very fragile; skegs, cooling fins and the gas tanks are very susceptible to damage.
www.oddjobmotors.com /bendix.htm   (793 words)

  
 Bendix Helicopter, Inc. 1947
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.
Vincent Bendix was a pioneer and leader in both the automotive and aviation industries during the 1920s and 1930s.
Bendix's interest in aviation led him to establish the Bendix Transcontinental Air Race to encourage experimental developments by airplane designers and to improve the skills of aviators in cross-country flying techniques.
www.scripophily.net /benhelinc1.html   (2838 words)

  
 The First Generation Computers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
It is the Bendix G-15 General Purpose Digital Computer, a First Generation computer introduced in 1956.
The G-15 was superceded by the second generation (transistorised) Bendix G-20.
The Bendix Corporation claimed to be the first manufacturer to introduce a programming system patterned on Algol.
members.iinet.net.au /~dgreen   (1888 words)

  
 Bendix makes operational changes
A realignment of plant capacity is underway at Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems as it intends to close its Frankfort, KY facility in the fourth quarter and move drum brake production away from its Glasgow, KY plant.
Bendix plans to shift production of its compressors used in commercial vehicle braking systems from Frankfort to an existing Bendix facility in Acuña, Mexico, that currently manufactures other components used within a vehicle’s air charging system.
For those exact same reasons, Bendix and its partner Dana Corp. say they are gearing up to build a new foundation brake production facility slated for fourth quarter 2007 under the auspices of their joint venture, Bendix Spicer Foundation Brake LLC.
fleetowner.com /management/news/bendix_operational_changes   (281 words)

  
 Reinhard Bendix, President 1970   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Rheinhard Bendix was born in Berlin, the son of Ludwig Bendix.
The University of Albany, which holds a collection of Bendix papers, reports that Bendix was a member of an anti-Nazi underground organization.
Bendix was elected to serve as the 61st President of the American Sociological Association.
www2.asanet.org /governance/bendix.html   (148 words)

  
 Bendix Spicer JV promotes air disc brakes
Launched last year, the Bendix Spicer Foundation Brake joint venture claims to be the largest air disc brake manufacturer in the world when Bendix European affiliate Knorr-Bremse is included.
Bendix Spicer officials said more trucking companies would give serious consideration to air disc brakes once they know more about the benefits.
Bendix air disc brakes were tested in Colorado on a mountainous section of I-70.
bulktransporter.com /mag/transportation_bendix_spicer_jv/index.html   (960 words)

  
 Bendix Imaging - Print Equipment Supply
From affordable inkjet printers to full color laser printers and copiers, BENDIX imaging is your local printing and imaging specialists.
BENDIX imaging is the only local company with STMC certified remanufacturing facilities.
What that means for you is the highest quality cartridges and best value from a company dedicated to providing you with the most economical, environmentally friendly, reliable cartridges you can find.
www.bendiximaging.com   (262 words)

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