page_title: Metz Company
section_title: Model 22
hierarchical_section_title: Metz Company / History / Model 22
caption_attribution_description: English: 1912 Metz Model 22 runabout, Chief's buggy, Plandome Fire Department, riding Southbound (looking west) on Plandome Road, Manhasset, NY. Memorial Day Parade 2011.
context_page_description: The Metz Company was a pioneer brass era automobile maker established by Charles Herman Metz in Waltham, Massachusetts, from ca.1908 to 1922.
context_section_description: Claiming to be "winner of the Glidden Tour", the 1914 Model 22 was a two-seat roadster or torpedo. It had a 22½ hp (17 kW) 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, and priced at $475; by contrast, the Success was an uncommonly low US$250, the Black started at $375, the Brush Runabout was US$485 Western's Gale Model A was US$500, and even the high-volume Oldsmobile Runabout ten years earlier was US$650.
caption: Model 22 runabout in a parade
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