Production 1899–c. 1901 Top speed 50 mph (80 km/h) | Class Motorized tricycle | |
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Manufacturer Waltham Manufacturing Company Engine 20 cu in (330 cm) water-cooled de Dion-Bouton gasoline or naptha fuel single Bore / stroke 2 ⁄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.
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
Specifications in infobox to the right are from Garson, and from Krens.
References
Orient tricycle Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA