F. F. MATTMANN, Pres.
P. MATCOVICH,
Sec'y & Treas.
W. A. SMYTH, Vice-Pres. A. F. GRAFF )
F. EICHMANN )
Directors
AUTO-N-BOAT CORPORATION
433 BERGENLINE AVENUE
UNION CITY, N. J.
Capital
Stock, $100,000 Fully Paid and Non-assessable
In our experiment on a land and water vehicle
built by F. I. Mattman and P. Matcovich, we were convinced of a possibility of
commercializing same, and to do so, we require capital.
The land and
water vehicle is patented and owned by the Corporation. Offering to the public
a limited amount of stock at $25.00 a share, which will put you on the ground
floor.
Our first step is at the bottom and our
intentions are to reach the top as quick as we can, realizing that by hard work
we will accomplish success.
All men associated in the Auto-n-boat Corporation will
stand any investigation as to their sincerity, honesty and integrity.
We aim to work hard and be persistent and
grow. As this is an entirely new proposition, we hope to grow and grow fast and
flood the country with the two-in-one automobile.
We are laying our foundation for
manufacturing. We will build a little home for our company and lay plans for
the future. It is our expectation to have everything ready by the first of the
year and start production and have a product on the market by the first of June
1926.
It is known to
all of us that twenty years ago, there were very few automobiles and fewer
roads. The increase in the number of automobiles enlarged the number of roads
to such an extent that at present there are plenty of roads fit for auto
travel. The progress of the automobile is five years ahead of the roads, which
causes congested traffic. The Auto-n-boat will remedy this, for it will use
waterways which do not require any repairs. All that will be necessary for the
State or City to build are "ways" for the Auto-n-boat to get in and
out of the water.
A bridge was built over the Hudson for
auto travel and the cost runs into millions of dollars and it probably requires
$100,000 yearly to keep the bridge in good condition and preserve the life of
it. With the same amount of money, can be built enough "ways" of
concrete to cover the entire country, with nothing required thereafter for its
upkeep.
Travelling on the road from Poughkeepsie
to New York is not a pleasure because the traffic is so heavy on it. If a
traveller had an Auto-n-boat, he could take to the water and travel on the
Hudson, enjoying the scenery, make good time and enjoy a good sport. The Hudson River is a large body of water
and traffic on it is not congested, which would make travelling in an
Auto-n-boat a pleasure as well as a time saving vehicle.
The Auto-n-boat
will have one motor and two propellers. The approximate weight of a four
passenger type will be between 2400 and 2600 pounds. On land, it will travel as
a regular automobile. It will have springs on four points for comfortable
riding. It will be steered as an automobile on land and on water by a process
of your hand; you change the steering from the wheel to the rudder and vice
versa. As the boat starts running, by propeller power, the wheels are raised
above water line and covered so as to keep water from same and you have a boat
body for water travel.
The Auto-n-boat can be used by everybody as an
automobile on land and as a boat when crossing rivers and lakes and other
bodies of water; by tourists travelling through country where bridges are few
and far between; by fisherman and Sportsman; by yachtmen as a pleasure boat
instead of launches; by commuters where it is necessary to cross water; by
ships in harbor in all parts of the world; by the United States Coast Guards;
by Life Saving Stations; by the Police Department in the harbor and water
fronts; by amusement resorts as a novelty; by taxi-owners when water is to be
crossed; by all users of automobiles where traffic is heavy and a water way is
near.
first: What the people
need is an amphibious automobile.
second: Ways for same at
different points.
third: The more
Auto-n-boat riding on water, less repair is necessary on state and city
highways, so the saving of repair will pay for money spent building ways on
water fronts.
THAT FUNNY LOOKING OBJECT
IS AN AUTO THAT CAN SWIM
It Took Philip
Matcovich 14 Months to Build it, but He Says It Is
Perfectly
Amphibious and Makes Fishing Easy
Is indolence or necessity
the mother of invention?
Ask Philip
Matcovich, who invented an automobile-boat, not because the contraption is a
necessity to him. but because he likes to fish and dislikes to change transportation
agencies when he comes ashore after a day on the water.
Mr. Matcovich, who objects to being called a machinist,
although he does an excellent job of machine work, is nearing the end of a
fourteen-months' job of designing and building—well, call it a vehicle—that
will operate on land or water with equal facility.
When on land, it looks like the pictures that now and then
come to the United States of the cycle cars and freak automobiles that seem to
flourish in England and Germany. In the water, it looks like almost any
two-passenger launch such as is used for pleasure.
The automobile-boat was developed
because of Mr. Matcovich's love for fishing. but he fully believes that it can
be made popular.
He lives at 259 Academy Street,
Long Island City, but every day for six months he has been seen about a shop at
the foot of Nassau Avenue, Astoria, where the automobile-boat grew from an
idea into a reality. Before that, for eight months, he took all his spare time
from his job as foreman for Bartlett & Hayward. engineers, to further the
project.
He has already tried out his
invention both on land and water and it operates successfully on both.
He first became
interested in automobile-boats when he invested money in a concern that
planned to build them several years ago.
No building was ever done and to recover his money he went ahead with
the work himself—at his own expense.
N. Y. Eve. Post June
24, 1925.