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C.H. Metz took over the Waltham company, which was making Waltham and Orient Buckboard cars. The first Metz car was a light 12hp air-cooled 2-cylinder roadster with friction transmission and double chain drive. This Metz car was sold on the Metz Plan, by which purchasers bought fourteen separate packages of parts, for home assembly. The design and ‘plan’ of the Metz car was continued through 1911, but in April of that year a new Metz car with a 22hp water-cooled 4-cylinder engine was introduced, which was sold complete in the normal manner. The Metz car retained friction drive, as did all Metz cars until 1917, and the two-seater roadster body of the earlier Metz car. In 1916 the engine of the Met car was enlarged to 25hp, and in 1919 a completely new car, the Metz Master Six, was introduced, with a 45hp 6-cylinder engine, conventional gearbox and shaft drive. In 1922 this Metz car was renamed the Waltham, thus reviving the name used by the old Waltham Manufacturing Company.
Source: Georgano, encyclopedia of motorcar; GMN
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