Orient tricycle | |
Production: | 1899–c. 1901 |
Class: | Motorized tricycle |
Engine: | 20cuin water-cooled de Dion-Bouton gasoline or naptha fuel single |
Bore Stroke: | NaNinches×3inchesin (×in) |
Top Speed: | 50mph |
Power: | 2.75hp |
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.
Orient advertised that the single-person tricycle could be converted to a two-person four wheeled "autogo" in five minutes. A 1900 Orient appeared in The Art of the Motorcycle exhibition at Guggenheim Museum in New York.
Specifications in infobox to the right are from Garson, and from Krens.