The John B. Judkins Company of West Amesbury,

Massachusetts Massachusetts (Massachusett language, Massachusett: ''Muhsachuweesut assachusett writing systems, məhswatʃəwiːsət'' English: , ), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is the most populous U.S. state, state in the New England ...

, carriage and automobile body manufacturers built their first automobiles in the 1890s. West Amesbury, since re-named Merrimac, was an early center of American carriage-building.Hugo Pfau, ''The Coachbuilt Packard'', Darlton Watson, London 1973

Carriageworks established

John B. Judkins and Isaac Little established themselves in Amesbury as coachbuilders in 1857. Various new partners joined with Judkins and the firm's name changed to match but eventually two Judkins sons took charge after their father died in 1908.

Packard

Boston's Packard distributor, Alvan T Fuller, bought special bodies for the new

Packard Twin Six The Packard Twelve was a range of V12-engined luxury automobiles built by the Packard Motor Car Company in Detroit, Michigan. The car was built from model year 1916 until 1923, then it returned 1933 until 1939. As a sign of changing times, the ma ...

es that Packard put into production in 1915.

Lincoln

They also built

coupé A coupe or coupé (, ) is a passenger car with a sloping or truncated rear roofline and two doors. The term ''coupé'' was first applied to horse-drawn carriages for two passengers without rear-facing seats. It comes from the French past parti ...

s and berlines for Lincoln during the 1920s and during the

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Trailers

During the 1930s Judkins added trailers to their product line. 1938 saw their last coachbuilt body and in 1941 trailer production stopped and the business was liquidated.

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