Bendix
Sebo-fan, what is not mentioned in your link is that When Electrolux first acquired the Bendix name in the mid 1980's, they did for a short while produce basic "Zanussi" machines under the Bendix name, rather than Tricity-Bendix as stated, but then in the 1990's resurected the Tricity name (a brand which had previously mostly been used for appliances sold exclusively through independent retailers), and Electrolux came up with the new name Tricty-Bendix. I have found a photograph of a "Zanussi" style Bendix washer, and if you click the link you will find comments which confirm what I have said here.
To a much younger person, it must seem strange that Electrolux wanted to produce goods -and similar models at that- under so many names. This is where some of our rich social history gets lost, because with today ultra-low priced white-goods, brand loyalty is probably none-existent. However, going back to the days when Electrolux acquired the names as they did, there would have been a good deal of consumers who still owned original Bendix appliances and indeed probably had owned them for a great number of years. As a result of this, a consumer would understandably be keen to source a replacement with the same brand, when the time finally came to replace the appliance.
By joining the Tricity name to the Bendix, Electrolux were able to rather cleverly produce one range of goods which appealed to two streams of loyal customers. Added to which, the high quality of these appliances came hand in hand with a very reasonable price tag, meaning that the Tricity-Bendix appliances had an appeal to many consumers all-round. Seeing how Electrolux owned the Tricity name already, there was no real reason not to use it. Their cooking appliance were then also split into Parkinson-Cowan for gas, with -in many (but not all) cases- the same model in electric, under the Tricity-Bendix name.
As retail prices of appliances began to plummet, manufacturers were forced to drive down cost prices accordingly. One way to do this was to streamline the number of different models being sold, and with brand-loyalty now being more of a thing of the past, this is doubtless why many names under the Electrolux umbrella were dropped in favour of the new "AEG-Electrolux" and "Zanussi-Electrolux" names. Interestingly, this, I see has, also now been stopped on Zanussi appliances, where by they have reverted to a single "Zanussi" name. I am keen to know why this was.
http://www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?35127
