Orient tricycle

Orient tricycle

Orient tricycle with a trailer
Manufacturer Waltham Manufacturing Company
Production 1899–c. 1901
Class Motorized tricycle
Engine 20 cu in (330 cm3) water-cooled de Dion-Bouton gasoline or naptha fuel single
Bore / stroke 2 15⁄16 in × 3 in (75 mm × 76 mm)
Top speed 50 mph (80 km/h)
Power 2.75 hp (2.05 kW)
Related De Dion-Bouton tricycle
Orient converted to quad configuration

The Orient tricycle was an early motorized tricycle (classified as a motorcycle under some definitions). It was manufactured by Charles H. Metz's Waltham Manufacturing Company in Waltham, Massachusetts and advertised in 1899 as a "motor cycle", the first use of the term in a published catalog.[1]

Orient advertised that the single-person tricycle could be converted to a two-person four wheeled "autogo" in five minutes.[2] A 1900 Orient appeared in The Art of the Motorcycle exhibition at Guggenheim Museum in New York.[3]

Specifications

Specifications in infobox to the right are from Garson,[1] and from Krens.[3]

Notes and references

Notes

  1. 1 2 Garson 2011.
  2. ↑ Orient 1901, p. 39.
  3. 1 2 Krens 1998, p. 101.

References

Further reading

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See also

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