Orient tricycle
File:Orient tricycle.jpg
Orient tricycle with a trailer
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Manufacturer | Waltham Manufacturing Company |
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Production | 1899–c. 1901 |
Class | Motorized tricycle |
Engine | 20 cu in (330 cm3) water-cooled de Dion-Bouton gasoline or naptha fuel single |
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Top speed | 50 mph (80 km/h) |
Power | 2.75 hp (2.05 kW) |
Related | De Dion-Bouton tricycle |
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]
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Specifications
Specifications in infobox to the right are from Garson,[1] and from Krens.[3]
Notes and references
Notes
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References
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Further reading
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See also
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Garson 2011.
- ↑ Orient 1901, p. 39.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Krens 1998, p. 101.