Solved TGF-322: Austro-Daimler by Healey & Co, NY

[4popoid]

I'm pretty much at a loss.  Have we ruled out Belgium, or just D'Ieteren?

[targhediferro]

Not Belgian coachbuilder.

[4popoid]

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?

[targhediferro]

Not from Switzerland.

[4popoid]

Italian coachbuilder?

[targhediferro]

Not Italian.

[4popoid]

Well it doesn't look French, but I've got to ask.  Is the coachbuilder French?

[targhediferro]

Neither French.

[4popoid]

Hmmmm.  Perhaps I had better ask: Is the coachbuilder European?

[targhediferro]

No, not European...sorry, I was tempted to tell you more than once, but this is Autopuzzles!

[pnegyesi]

North American coachbuilder?

[targhediferro]

North American coachbuilder?

Yes.

[4popoid]

Austro-Daimler by Brewster from about 1912?

[targhediferro]

Not Brewster, a more obscure one.

[4popoid]

Austro-Daimler by J. M. Quinby & Co. from about 1912?

[targhediferro]

Austro-Daimler by J. M. Quinby & Co. from about 1912?

Not that one.

[4popoid]

Austro-Daimler by A.T. Demarest  & Co. from about 1912?

[targhediferro]

Austro-Daimler by A.T. Demarest  & Co. from about 1912?

No.

[4popoid]

Austro-Daimler by the Derham Body Co. from about 1912?

[targhediferro]

Austro-Daimler by the Derham Body Co. from about 1912?

I'm sorry, but I must tell you "no" once more.

[4popoid]

Austro-Daimler by Willoughby & Co. from about 1912?.

[targhediferro]

Austro-Daimler by Willoughby & Co. from about 1912?.

Not Willoughby & Co.
A little help...this coachbuilder name is the same of another car manufacturer.

[4popoid]

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?

[targhediferro]

No, and the other car manufacturer is not American.

[4popoid]

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.