{"id":11007,"date":"2020-12-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studebaker.priemerhosting.com\/1934-bendix-steel-wheels-corp\/"},"modified":"2020-12-03T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T00:00:00","slug":"1934-bendix-steel-wheels-corp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studebakermuseum.org\/1934-bendix-steel-wheels-corp\/","title":{"rendered":"1934 Bendix (Steel Wheels Corp.)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bendix car was developed as a \u2018car-of-the-future\u2019 by Bendix engineers Victor Kliesrath and Alfred Ney and styled by William Ortwig, formerly of the Fisher Body Co. Ortwig eliminated the customary running boards and moved the fuel and water filler caps under the hood to allow for unblemished body panels.<\/p>\n<p>To protect Bendix\u2019s automotive partnerships, Vincent Bendix created a phantom company, the Steel Wheel Corporation, and branded the car with \u201cSWC\u201d badging. The Bendix car designed and assembled in St. Joseph and Benton Harbor, Michigan at a cost of over $84,000. It was initially shown in Europe but kept under wraps in the U.S. It was discovered and restored by Bendix employees the late 1960s.<\/p>\n<table style=\"height: 72px;\" width=\"626\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"150\">\n<h5><strong>Country of Origin<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"220\">\n<h5><strong>Engine<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"90\">\n<h5><strong>Horsepower<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"111\">\n<h5><strong>Number Built<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>United States<\/td>\n<td>Inline Six, 170 C.I. (Continental)<\/td>\n<td>86<\/td>\n<td>One<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Gift of the Honeywell Corporation, South Bend, Indiana.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7856\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7856\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7856 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.studebakermuseum.org\/studebaker-main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Bendix_side-for-website-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"Bendix\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/studebakermuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Bendix_side-for-website-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/studebakermuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Bendix_side-for-website-1024x667.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/studebakermuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Bendix_side-for-website-768x500.jpg 768w, https:\/\/studebakermuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Bendix_side-for-website.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7856\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peterharholdt.com\/\">Peter Harholdt<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<table width=\"900\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"900\">\n<h5><strong>Did you know?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>The Bendix car features front-wheel drive and fully independent suspension. These are common features today but nearly unheard of in the 1930s.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h2>About this Series<\/h2>\n<p>Streamlined: Style on Motion was on display at the Museum in 2019.\u00a0 This series of articles comes for the displays from that exhibition.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.studebakermuseum.org\/exhibition\/streamlined-style-in-motion\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2628 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.studebakermuseum.org\/studebaker-main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/SNM_StreamlinedLogoRGB-1024x145.png\" alt=\"Streamlined Logo\" width=\"495\" height=\"70\" srcset=\"https:\/\/studebakermuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/SNM_StreamlinedLogoRGB-1024x145.png 1024w, https:\/\/studebakermuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/SNM_StreamlinedLogoRGB-300x43.png 300w, https:\/\/studebakermuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/SNM_StreamlinedLogoRGB-768x109.png 768w, https:\/\/studebakermuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/SNM_StreamlinedLogoRGB-1536x218.png 1536w, https:\/\/studebakermuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/SNM_StreamlinedLogoRGB-2048x290.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bendix car was developed as a \u2018car-of-the-future\u2019 by Bendix engineers Victor Kliesrath and Alfred Ney and styled by William Ortwig, formerly of the Fisher Body Co. 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