The truck works, and the living-plant test: no plant stands here

ITEMS 8–9 · THE WORKS' WHOLE IS SOUTH BEND'S; THE ADDRESS TEST RUN FOR THIS GROUND

The leg's giant — the truck and utility works with its war trucks and its long collapse — is Studebaker, and its whole course is the South Bend build's; Walkerton's share is the counter it sold from, and the living-plant test for this ground is negative. At boundary size, as ordered: Studebaker's trucks were designed and built in South Bend across the make's whole life — the war trucks of two wars, the commercial lines, the final years to 1963 — and Williams Supply Co. at 408 Michigan Street sold them here as it sold the cars, a point on the works' distribution map and nothing more; no war truck was built, assembled, or converted in Walkerton, and the Scout-class chapter of the register's pattern belongs to International Harvester's Fort Wayne works, in that city's telling, not to this ground at all. The living-plant test (item 9): manufacturer plant locators and the current directory record were checked for a living assembly plant at a Walkerton address, and none stands — the town's living vehicle industry is exactly what Businesses's modern course prints: no franchised new-car point, and the Roosevelt Road row of used sales, parts, and service (Celebrity, Midwest, Auto Value, Hamilton). The address lore the checklist warns against — a plant presumed from a marque's presence — is refused here in both directions: Studebaker's Walkerton address was a store, and no plant hides behind it.

Principal sources: the Studebaker works record at boundary size; manufacturer plant locators and current directories checked for Walkerton, November 2026; Businesses (the modern course).