A Brief History of Bendix Red Bank Tubes

“Bendix Red Bank is not so obscure! My grandfather, my father, two of myuncles, my cousin, and I all worked there at one time or another! At its peak, there were 1600 people working three shifts around the clock. My grandfather was a vacuum tube engineer and my father developed a lot of the specialized toolingfor the Red Bank tubes.” says author Charles Hansen. These super-tubes were made by what to most people was an obscure division ofBendix Aviation Corporation. The plant in which they were made was originally called the Bendix Red Bank Division, in Eatontown, N.J. The author takes you on a bit of a trip through history: The history of military vacuum tubes, the history ofBendix Aviation, the triggering event that put Eclipse-Pioneer and Bendix Aviation in the vacuum tube business, and a history of the Bendix tube business and its important developments. The author also gives you valuable information about all the hype and hoopla surrounding the “Bendix” tubes being offered on eBay