What is it? Quiz #489

Mid 'teens Briscoe

1914 Briscoe Model B tourer. Benjamin Briscoe was also involved in many other car ventures, including Buick, Maxwell-Briscoe, United States Motor Co., Colubia, Stoddard Dayton, Brush, Titan taxi, Earl, Alden-Sampson trucks and in France Briscoe Freres, Ajax and Bellanger used Briscoe chassis and engines

Sources:
Standard Catalog American Cars
http://www.autopasion18.com/HISTORIA-BRISCOE.htm
https://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/2007-35/what-it-is-167-solvedgtgtgt1914-briscoe-model-b-torpedo/msg19555/#msg19555

This is a 1914 Briscoe Model B Deluxe Tourer. Benjamin Briscoe started building this four-cylinder 33 hp car that year. Before he had participated in building the Maxwell, failed with the United States Motor Company, went to France to form Briscoe Frères to build a cyclecar he exported to the US as the Argo. The Briscoe's single headlight was very distinctive, but unfortunately illegal in many US states. To supply some Briscoe cars with a paper-mache body was another of his unusual ideas, as was the offer to swap the four-cylinder engine with a V8 after a month of ownership.

Source:
Standard Catalogue of American Cars 1805-1942

Benjamin Briscoe - 'More than a million cars bore the mark of his genius. Then he built this, his life's masterpiece'.
This interesting car with its solo headlamp is a Briscoe. Built in Jackson, Michigan using a French design. It had a 2.5 litre 4 cylinder sidevalve engine. According to their 1917 advertisement 'Briscoe went to Paris and surrounded himself with fourteen of the most famous European engineers - and there welded together his own genius and the worlds best motor knowledge at a cost of half a million dollars'. Mostly forgotten today, Benjamin Briscoe was one of America's motor pioneers.

Sources:
The Complete Encyclopedia of Motorcars 1885 to the Present. G.N.Georgano
1895-1930 The Wonderful World of Automobiles. Joseph J. Schroeder, Jr.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Briscoe_(automobile_company)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Briscoe

Note:
I wish today I could use more than 100 words!

I think it's a Sizaire-Naudin- I've seen one somewhere and recalled the name and looked it up on Wikipedia.

1915 Briscoe, it was called "the First French Car at an American Price". Brothers Bejamin and Frank had studied automobile production in France at Renault in Billancourt and called themself Briscoe Frères. Benjamin had started manufacturing parts for Olds Motor Works and later worked together with Jonathan Maxwell.
Four-cylinder L-head engine developing 33 hp at 1600 rmp. Electric starter and light and semi-elliptic springs all around. Light weight due to papier maché body. To make it legal in all States the cyclop headlight was abandoned for 1916

Source:Automobile Quarterly vol. XVII nr. 2

Brisco