two cylinder engine. It remained in production until 1907. Plant superintendent John Robbins left in 1904. He was replaced by Leo Melanowski who was also chief engineer. More conventional cars came in 1905 with front-mounted, water cooled inline 4-cylinder engines of 16 or 20 hp (12 or 15 kW) and chain drive. They were made until 1908. These power-plants were of proprietary design and consisted of four single cylinders mounted on a common crankcase. Melanowski left in 1906, his position taken by William H. Little. Little developed a small runabout with a V-twin engine and friction drive. Shortly before production started in 1908, WMC got into financial trouble and to avoid bankruptcy, their bank negotiated with Charles Metz. In July 1908, the C.H. Metz Company bought WMC, making Metz owner of one of the largest automobile manufacturer in the U.S. Reorganizations followed in 1909 and 1910, when the C.H. Metz Co. and WMC together were reorganized as the Metz Company. Little's small car became the Metz Two, sold by marketing in 14 batches and assembled by the customer. It worked, and the company was not only out of debt in less than a year but also sold its huge stock of parts. See also Brass Era car List of defunct United States automobile manufacturers References Further reading Beverly Rae Kimes: Pioneers, Engineers, and Scoundrels: The Dawn of the Automobile in America. editor SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) Permissions, Warrendale PA 2005, (hardcover) Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly (January, 1904) The Great Orient Buckboard Race by Martha Treichler academia.edu: The Metz Company of Waltham by Daniel U. Holbrook (1986) (English) (retrieved, 20 January 2014) historicwaltham.org: Essays / Isabella Perruzzi / Charles Metz trombinoscar.com: Waltham Orient Buckboard Model B.R. and history (French) waltham-community.org: History (timetable) Bicycles, motorcycles, and Autogos proteanpaper.com: Union Cycle Company catalogue (1894) Picture of a Orient Chainless bicycle (1898); Bicycle Museum of America statnekov.com: Motorcycles Chapter 1 with a picture of the Orient Tandem Pacer motorcycle motorcycles.com: Vintage Motorcycle Marsh-Metz motorcycle.com: Motorcycle history Part 2 oldbike.wordpress.com: Motorized Tandems pazhayathu.blogspot.ch: Early Motor-cycles conceptcarz.com: Orient Autogo (1900) Automobile carfolio.com: 1906 Waltham Orient Buckboard specifications conceptcarz.com: 1903 Waltham Orient Runabout Buckboard conceptcarz.com: 1906 Waltham Orient Runabout Buckboard conceptcarz.com: 1909 Metz Two / 12 HP carfolio.com: 1910 Metz Two / 12 HP specifications oldcarbrochures.com: Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly; "Automobiles of 1904" (January, 1904) (see p. 11) Brass Era vehicles Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of