Metz Company (automobile)

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The Metz Company was a pioneer brass era automobile maker in Waltham, Massachusetts.[1]

Claiming to be "winner of the Glidden Tour", the 1914 Model 22 was a two-seat roadster or torpedo. It had a 22½ hp (17 kW) four-cylinder watercooled engine with Bosch magneto, full-elliptic springs front and rear. It ran on artillery wheels with Goodrich clincher tires, and featured a Prest-O-Lite-type acetylene generator for the headlights.[2] It was billed as "gearless"[3] and priced at $475; by contrast, the Success hit was an amazingly low US$250,[4] the Black started at $375,[5] the Brush Runabout was US$485[6] Western's Gale Model A was US$500,[7] and even the high-volume Oldsmobile Runabout was US$650.[8]

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Clymer, p.145.
  2. ^ Clymer, p.145.
  3. ^ Clymer, p.145.
  4. ^ Clymer, p.32.
  5. ^ Clymer, p.61.
  6. ^ Clymer, p.104.
  7. ^ Clymer, p.51.
  8. ^ Clymer, p.32.

[edit] Source

  • Clymer, Floyd. Treasury of Early American Automobiles, 1877-1925. New York: Bonanza Books, 1950.

[edit] See also


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