Author: [Automotive Advertising Brochure]
Title: METZ "22" $600 with Complete Electric Equipment
Description: New York City: Henry Decker, Ltd [for Metz Company, Waltham, Mass.], (n. d.). 1st printing thus, ca 1914. Self wrappers, printed in light orange, dark orange & black. Unpaginated, though 4 pages. Illustrated with 2 b/w images of the automobile. 12-1/2" x 9-1/2". Two horizontal fold-lines, with splits developing along each. Some light soiling & smuding. A Good copy only. "The Metz Company was a pioneer brass era automobile maker established by Charles Herman Metz in Waltham, Massachusetts, from ca.1908 to 1922. Claiming to be 'winner of the Glidden Tour', the 1914 Model 22 was a two-seat roadster. It had a 22½ hp four-cylinder water-cooled engine with Bosch magneto, full-elliptic springs front and rear. It ran on artillery wheels with Goodrich clincher tires, and featured a Prest-O-Lite-type acetylene generator for the headlights. It was billed as 'gearless', having a friction drive mechanism." [Wiki] A rare survivor from the early days of automobile manufacture.

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