Author Topic: Solved TGF-322: Austro-Daimler by Healey & Co, NY  (Read 1985 times)

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Re: TGF-322
« Reply #50 on: January 21, 2014, 01:20:54 AM »
I'm pretty much at a loss.  Have we ruled out Belgium, or just D'Ieteren?

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Re: TGF-322
« Reply #51 on: January 21, 2014, 05:42:09 AM »
Not Belgian coachbuilder.

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Re: TGF-322
« Reply #52 on: January 21, 2014, 01:52:54 PM »
Although I haven't been able to locate a carrossier in Switzerland who worked on Austro-Daimler, I have to start somewhere, and Switzerland is adjacent to Austria.  So, is the coachbuilder Swiss?

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Re: TGF-322
« Reply #53 on: January 21, 2014, 03:25:19 PM »
Not from Switzerland.

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Re: TGF-322
« Reply #54 on: January 21, 2014, 04:52:16 PM »
Italian coachbuilder?

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Re: TGF-322
« Reply #55 on: January 21, 2014, 05:37:25 PM »
Not Italian.

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Re: TGF-322
« Reply #56 on: January 21, 2014, 05:45:59 PM »
Well it doesn't look French, but I've got to ask.  Is the coachbuilder French?

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Re: TGF-322
« Reply #57 on: January 21, 2014, 05:52:21 PM »
Neither French.

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Re: TGF-322
« Reply #58 on: January 21, 2014, 06:04:11 PM »
Hmmmm.  Perhaps I had better ask: Is the coachbuilder European?

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Re: TGF-322
« Reply #59 on: January 22, 2014, 10:18:44 AM »
No, not European...sorry, I was tempted to tell you more than once, but this is Autopuzzles!

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Re: TGF-322
« Reply #60 on: January 22, 2014, 11:59:21 AM »
North American coachbuilder?
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Re: TGF-322
« Reply #61 on: January 22, 2014, 02:50:45 PM »

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Re: TGF-322
« Reply #62 on: January 22, 2014, 03:04:35 PM »
Austro-Daimler by Brewster from about 1912?

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Re: TGF-322
« Reply #63 on: January 23, 2014, 09:09:58 AM »
Not Brewster, a more obscure one.

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Re: TGF-322
« Reply #64 on: January 23, 2014, 12:28:00 PM »
Austro-Daimler by J. M. Quinby & Co. from about 1912?

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Re: TGF-322
« Reply #65 on: January 23, 2014, 12:30:54 PM »
Austro-Daimler by J. M. Quinby & Co. from about 1912?
Not that one.

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Re: TGF-322
« Reply #66 on: January 23, 2014, 01:04:07 PM »
Austro-Daimler by A.T. Demarest  & Co. from about 1912?

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Re: TGF-322
« Reply #67 on: January 23, 2014, 02:36:25 PM »
Austro-Daimler by A.T. Demarest  & Co. from about 1912?
No.

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Re: TGF-322
« Reply #68 on: January 23, 2014, 03:52:19 PM »
Austro-Daimler by the Derham Body Co. from about 1912?

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Re: TGF-322
« Reply #69 on: January 23, 2014, 04:21:38 PM »
Austro-Daimler by the Derham Body Co. from about 1912?
I'm sorry, but I must tell you "no" once more.

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Re: TGF-322
« Reply #70 on: January 23, 2014, 06:36:07 PM »
Austro-Daimler by Willoughby & Co. from about 1912?.

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Re: TGF-322
« Reply #71 on: January 24, 2014, 05:32:51 AM »
Austro-Daimler by Willoughby & Co. from about 1912?.
Not Willoughby & Co.
A little help...this coachbuilder name is the same of another car manufacturer.

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Re: TGF-322
« Reply #72 on: January 24, 2014, 09:04:41 AM »
That hint ought to make it easy, assuming the other car manufacturer is from North America.  The first one that comes to mind is: Austro-Daimler by Biddle & Smart from about 1912?

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Re: TGF-322
« Reply #73 on: January 24, 2014, 02:26:37 PM »
No, and the other car manufacturer is not American.

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Re: TGF-322
« Reply #74 on: January 24, 2014, 05:56:22 PM »
Unless the puzzle car was rebodied later (and the photograph doesn't look like it), the only American coachbuilder, having a foreign motorcar name, that fits the approx. 1912 time frame, that I can think of, would be Healey & Company of New York City.  They existed much prior to the Donald Healey Motor Company, but they bore the same Healey name, and the dressed expensive foreign and domestic motorcars, although I have no reference that says they ever did an Austro-Daimler.