It came about as a new innovation, so it was not readily accepted, urban legends abound that it was to be avoided, it will ruin your engine!
Think about what else was happening in the early-mid 50's...
Technology was rapidly evolving. Automotive engines were coming out of the dark ages.
Prior to the 50's, engines were crude, oil burning, plug fouling, oil leaking, maybe get 50,000 miles out of one if you were lucky and babied it. Most had no oil filter, and if they did it was a bypass type filter that just filtered a small portion of the oil and returned it to the pan. It didn't matter if sludge was building up in an engine, it's life was so short you would be in there cleaning it out while you replaced the rings and tightened the bearings. Once engine life began to extend out, sludge became more of a problem, something needed to be done about it.
So was the oil industry evolving. They were coming up with new innovations to go along with the improved engines, and not just for the automotive industry.
About the only applications I can think of for non detergent oil would be for a survivor engine, one that had not been into since possibly new, that had only had non detergent oil, and you were wanting to extend it's originality as long as possible.
The other is for reciprocating compressors. Used to be they specified non detergent oil because the detergents would build carbon on the valves. I always took their word for it, but also saw old compressors that would still carbon the valves when worked hard, even with non detergent oil. Now compressor specific synthetics solve the problem. It runs so much cleaner, no more caked valves!
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