achieve financial stability. The factory location was then bought from GM and the Clydesdale Motor Truck Company was in operation from 1917 to 1939. The Clydesdale Factory was then the site of Clyde Porcelain Steel Company until the factory burned down November 11, 1945. The factory was rebuilt and the Bendix Corporation operated a factory at this location which made front load washing machines under the Bendix Home Appliances until the business was sold to Avco Manufacturing Corporation in 1951, and combining Bendix Appliances with Crosley Appliances. In 1956, Avco sold Bendix Home Appliances to Philco. The current location is now Whirlpool Corporation where Maytag, Whirlpool, and Amana washing machines are manufactured and is the largest factory in America that manufactures washing machines. See also Brass Era car List of defunct United States automobile manufacturers Bibliography Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly (January, 1904) Clymer, Floyd. Treasury of Early American Automobiles, 1877-1925. New York: Bonanza Books, 1950. References Brass Era vehicles Veteran vehicles General Motors marques Motor vehicle manufacturers based in Ohio Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of the United States 1890s cars 1900s cars 1910s cars Defunct manufacturing companies based in Ohio Ottawa County, Ohio Sandusky County, Ohio Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 1893 Vehicle manufacturing companies disestablished in 1912 1893 establishments in Ohio 1912 disestablishments in Ohio Clyde, Ohio