Healey & Company

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Healey, Williams & Company
Healey & Company
legal form Company
founding 1881
resolution 1926
Seat New York City , New York , USA
management Inglis M. Uppercu
Branch Carriages , bodies , automobiles

Healey & Company , previously Healey, Williams & Company , was an American manufacturer of carriages , car bodies and automobiles .

prehistory

Messrs. Williams and Dingel had been running the Williams & Dingel company for the manufacture of carriages since 1849 . C. Loos replaced Dingel around 1860, whereupon the company name changed to Loos & Williams . In 1881 the partners separated.

Company history

William Mansfield Healey and Williams founded Healey, Williams & Company in 1881 . The seat was in New York City . It also made carriages and sleighs . In 1886 it became Healey & Company when Healey bought his partner's shares.

Later bodies for automobiles were added. They were based on chassis from Cadillac , Christie , Falcon , Locomobile , Packard , Simplex , Singer and Stevens-Duryea .

Between 1905 and 1916, the company produced its own automobiles, often at the request of customers. The brand name was Healey . Among the buyers were George S. Bowdoin and John D. Rockefeller . In 1914, 20 of the brand's vehicles were registered in New York City.

In 1923 Inglis M. Uppercu bought the company. It was dissolved in 1926.

Healey motor vehicles

The first vehicle from 1905 was an electric car . The front-wheel drive was unusual . The structure was a coupe . The buyer was WH Douglas from Belleville , New Jersey .

More electric cars followed.

In 1910, vehicles with gasoline engines were added. The chassis were bought.

literature

  • Beverly Rae Kimes, Henry Austin Clark Jr .: Standard catalog of American Cars. 1805-1942. Digital edition . 3. Edition. Krause Publications, Iola 2013, ISBN 978-1-4402-3778-2 , pp. 693 (English).
  • George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 2: G-O . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 680 (English).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Beverly Rae Kimes, Henry Austin Clark Jr .: Standard catalog of American Cars. 1805-1942. Digital edition . 3. Edition. Krause Publications, Iola 2013, ISBN 978-1-4402-3778-2 , pp. 693 (English).
  2. ↑ a b c d George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 2: G-O . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 680 (English).
  3. ↑ a b Carriage Museum of America (accessed April 21, 2018)
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Mark Theobald: Coachbuilt (English, accessed on April 21, 2018)