Bendix Corporation

Bendix Corporation was an American manufacturing and engineering company founded in 1924 that made a wide range of products over its history, including automotive brake systems, vacuum tubes, aircraft components, avionics, fuel control systems, radios, televisions and computers. Its aerospace work included NASA 1966 selection of the Bendix Aerospace Systems Division in Ann Arbor, Michigan to design, manufacture, test and support the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package flown on the Apollo missions, while its Navigation and Control Division in Teterboro, New Jersey built the ST-124-M3 inertial platform used in the Saturn V Instrument Unit; the company also produced ground and airborne telecommunications systems for NASA during the 1960s. In 1982 Bendix chief executive William Agee launched a hostile takeover bid for Martin Marietta, prompting Martin Marietta to counterattack, and Allied Corporation intervened as a white knight to acquire Bendix in 1983 for 85 dollars a share. Bendix eventually became part of Honeywell, and in 2002 the German company Knorr-Bremse acquired the commercial vehicle brake business from Honeywell, making Bendix a subsidiary of that firm. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/