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1910s–1966 · WALKERVILLE / HAMILTON, ONTARIO (BOUNDARY — THE MECHANISM IS SOUTH BEND'S)
Explained, as the row requires, on the firm that actually built one. Studebaker's Canadian works stood at Walkerville, Ontario — listed among the corporation's works in its own 1919 history (South Bend; Detroit; Chicago; Walkerville, Ont.), with the Walkerville factories photographed as a plant, not an agency. The mechanism was the Empire tariff wall: British-preference tariffs made U.S.-built cars dearer across the Empire, so production inside Canada — a Dominion, inside the preference system — let the marque be built and sold as Empire content into Canada and the wider preference markets, while the London house (art-60-2) handled direct British government buying. The door outlasted the wagon era and the parent plant itself: when South Bend stopped automobile production on 20 December 1963, Studebaker production continued at Hamilton, Ontario, and the last Studebaker automobile rolled off the Hamilton line on 17 March 1966. Osceola has no Canadian plant, office or door of any kind; the mechanism is printed because the row asks how it worked, with its seat named as South Bend's firm, never the town's.
Sources: Erskine (1919), works list and Walkerville plates; Studebaker Corporation record (South Bend auto production ended 20 Dec. 1963; last car, Hamilton, Ont., 17 Mar. 1966).