Walker Sons and Company

[3][4][5] This included the invention of a disc pulping machine, patented in 1860, which was exported to other coffee producing countries.

[8][9][10] The same year the company relocated their headquarters from Kandy to Colombo and Walker retired to Scotland but retained his business interests in Ceylon until his death in 1888.

This polychrome ("blood-and-bandage") brick building housed the company's general offices, retail stores and engineering works.

[4] In the same year the company installed Ceylon's first passenger lift in the Galle Face Hotel.

[4] In 1977, due to the influx of cheap Japanese cars into the local market, the company closed its motor vehicle department.

After years of financial difficulties, the company was delisted from the Colombo Stock Exchange on 1 December 2022.