Vincent Bendix
Jun 23, 2021
3 minutes
WORDS DELYWN MALLETT
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HE WAS CALLED ‘The King of Stop and Go’, although, to be chronologically precise, he should have been the ‘King of Go and Stop’ – his ‘go’ invention preceding the ‘stop’.
Vincent Bendix’s whole life seemed to evolve on a stop-and-go basis. He was a big man, big-hearted and a big spender. He made a fortune, spent a fortune and was no stranger to bankruptcy, divorce and ill-judged investments. From humble beginnings he was, by the early 1930s, head of one of the world’s foremost
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