"We would say that the acceleration is roughly equivalent to that of a 3.4 Jaguar saloon...……....………...We didn't have the chance to drive La Metallurgique at night; the trouble is that the paraffin sidelamps blow out above 20mph, but the gigantic Zeiss acetylene headlamps are said to be quite powerful." 

La METALLURGIQUE 1907 fitted with a 1910 Maybach airship engine of 21-Litre capacity in 1919/20  

• ROAD TEST on 5 pages removed from Motor  of 26 December 1964. It was common practice in the 1950s/60s for Motor to produce a Christmas Road Test covering an unusual subject for a car magazine such as a tractor, a bus, a tramcar or as in this case a veteran car.   
• HISTORICAL ARTICLE entitled 'Great Guns,' on 4 part-colour pages from Collector's Car of July 1981.
• HISTORICAL ARTICLE in Motor Sport's 'Forgotten Makes' series, which mentions the road tested car, on 2-pages from the September 1989 issue.

"..........La Met could cruise happily all day long at a genuine 100mph, and will easily, imperiously, out-drag many modern cars - particularly travelling uphill."

The condition is described above and in the photos.

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