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.