Metz Company

Metz Company

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 water-cooled 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.[1] It was billed as "gearless"[1] and priced at $475; by contrast, the Success was an uncommonly low US$250,[2] the Black started at $375,[3] the Brush Runabout was US$485[4] Western's Gale Model A was US$500,[5] and even the high-volume Oldsmobile Runabout was US$650.[2]

Although Metz was not the first to offer a kit car (Dyke and Sears predated Metz with do-it-your-self high-wheelers), Metz did offer the first known kit automobile on the installment plan, known as the Metz Plan. The buyer would buy 14 groups or packages of parts for $27.00 which would be put together with the plans and tools supplied, or a factory-assembled automobile could be bought for $600.00. This plan was in effect until 1911 when it became impractical to compete with a dealer-supplied model "T" Ford.[6]

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See also

  • List of automobile manufacturers
  • List of defunct automobile manufacturers

Notes

  1. ^ a b c Clymer, p. 145.
  2. ^ a b Clymer, p. 32.
  3. ^ Clymer, p. 61.
  4. ^ Clymer, p. 104.
  5. ^ Clymer, p. 51.
  6. ^ Clark, Jess. "The First Do-It-Yourself Cars", in Car Classics (October 1978), pp. 20–22.

Source

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

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