Orient tricycle
Type of motorcycle
2+15⁄16 in × 3 in (75 mm × 76 mm)
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
- ^ a b Garson 2011.
- ^ Orient 1901, p. 39.
- ^ a b Krens & Drutt 2001, p. 101.
References
- Garson, G.P. (January 12, 2011), Motorcycle History: Part 1, Milestones: the genesis of the motorcycle, Motorcycle.com, retrieved 2014-06-16
- Orient (1901), "Autogo advertisement", The Automotive Manufacturer, 42, Trade News Publishing Company
- Krens, Thomas; Drutt, Matthew, eds. (2001) [1998], The Art of the Motorcycle, Harry N. Abrams, ISBN 0-89207-207-5
Further reading
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Orient motorcycles.
- Waltham Automobiles, Waltham Museum, archived from the original on 2014-02-08, retrieved 2014-06-16 — with some information on serial numbers
See also
- List of motorized trikes
- Safety bicycle
- List of motorcycles of the 1890s
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Early motorcycles
- Michaux-Perreaux steam velocipede
- Roper steam velocipede
- Long steam tricycle
- Copeland steam bicycle
- Geneva steam bicycle
- De Dion-Bouton steam tricycle
- Thomas steam bicycle
- Motrice Pia
- Daimler Reitwagen
- Butler Petrol-Cycle
- Clarke gasoline tricycle
- De Dion-Bouton tricycle
- Hildebrand & Wolfmüller
- Millet
- Orient tricycle
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