It was later purchased by the major manufacturer of bodies for Ford, Chrysler, Hudson, Packard and others Briggs Manufacturing Company of Detroit in 1926 and operated as a Briggs specialist subsidiary.
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LeBaron was purchased by Chrysler in 1953 along with its parent Briggs Manufacturing.
Walter Briggs, Sr. (1877–1952), owner of the Detroit Tigers and Briggs Manufacturing Company
Walter Scott | Sir Walter Scott | Walter Cronkite | Walter Raleigh | Walter Benjamin | Walter Mondale | Walter Matthau | Walter Gropius | Walter Hamma | Walter Savage Landor | Walter Burley Griffin | Walter Payton | Walter | Nicholas Briggs | Bruno Walter | Walter Winchell | Walter Crane | Walter Rilla | Walter Koenig | Walter Brennan | Raymond Briggs | Walter Sickert | Walter Pidgeon | Walter Isaacson | Walter Damrosch | Walter Crickmer | Walter Brueggemann | Walter Reed | Walter Browne | Little Walter |
Additional portraits include: successful individuals such as golfer Ben Hogan, Indianapolis 500 Speedway owner Anton Hulman Jr., Detroit Tigers Baseball Club owner Walter Briggs, Jr., Philip Wrigley of Wrigley Gum Company, Clark Hungerford, railroad executive and Bessie Mae Pederson (wife of Roy Pederson) of Houston, Texas
Walter Briggs, Jr. (1912–1970), son of Walter Briggs, Sr. and owner of the Detroit Tigers
Though Briggs wanted to keep his ownership of the Tigers and of Briggs Stadium, family estate administrators ordered both sold in 1956.
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He was owner of the Detroit Tigers for five seasons following the death of his father, Walter Briggs, Sr., in 1952.
Briggs also helped found the Detroit Zoo in 1928, and personally paid for many of its first exhibits.