The John B. Judkins Company of
West Amesbury,
, 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
Great Depression
The Great Depression (19291939) was an economic shock that impacted most countries across the world. It was a period of economic depression that became evident after a major fall in stock prices in the United States. The economic contagio ...
.
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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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References
External links
{{Commons category, John B Judkins
Luxury motor vehicle manufacturers
Coachbuilders of the United States
Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of the United States
1853 establishments in Massachusetts
Manufacturing companies established in 1853
Manufacturing companies based in Massachusetts