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Company History

Marsh was part of America’s brass-era motorcycling tapestry, building bicycles and early motorcycles before merging efforts with Metz to produce Marsh-Metz machines. These bikes used atmospheric-intake and later mechanically-valved engines, belt or direct drives, and spidery bicycle-derived frames—technology evolving almost monthly as industry standards formed. They raced on dirt ovals and board tracks, serving both as transport and as testbeds for reliability and carburetion. As the market consolidated and automotive competition grew, the name receded, but surviving examples illustrate the courage of early manufacturers who transformed workshop tinkering into production. Historically, Marsh stands as a reminder that motorcycling’s foundations were laid by dozens of small firms experimenting in parallel, each contributing a piece—frame geometry, ignition, lubrication—that later became the baseline we take for granted.