Walker Body Company

The manufacturing site remains as the Walker Body Company Factory.

In 1911, James Walker teamed up with Harlan P. Wells and incorporated autobody manufacturer Walker-Wells Body Co. An early major customer was Franklin Automobile Company of Syracuse, New York.

The remaining orders were divided among the Buick, Paige, Holmes (Canton, Ohio), Jackson, Jordan, Lexington, Packard, REO and White.

[2] The company went bankrupt in 1930 following the precipitous decline in demand for luxury automobiles after the Stock Market Crash of 1929, along with all the other Amesbury, Massachusetts auto body manufacturers.

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