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By John Reynolds. Available in Standard or Leatherbound Editions. Now that Citroën cars are selling at the rate of over
100,000 vehicles per year in the United Kingdom and that there are presently
more than a million examples currently registered as running on the British
roads, Automobiles Citroëns has become, once again, a major mainstream marque
in this country.
Yet few of these recent converts to Citroën ownership may be
aware that this current situation echoes the success enjoyed by the marque in
the 1920s when the Double Chevron marque was easily the most popular among
imported Continental cars. So much so, in fact, that in 1926 its founder, Andre
Citroën, established a factory at Slough to build his cars in right-hand-drive
form for the British and Commonwealth market.
Thus the company is actually one of the oldest names in the
British motor industry, an institution older than the BBC and the second
longest-established of all foreign and imported makes with a history in Great
Britain that can be traced back to 1923 and beyond.
In tracing the story of Citroën in the United Kingdom
between 1920 and 1980,
Eighty Years of Citroën in the United
Kingdom
reviews the history of Citroën Cars Ltd., which is the predecessor
of the present trading company Citroën UK Ltd., and recalls the
right-hand-drive vehicles built at the Slough Works between 1926 and 1966, and
all those models subsequently imported from France between 1966 and 1980.
Pre-war, Post-war and even wartime production is fully
catalogued and illustrated by over 250 archive press and publicity pictures
together with contemporary advertising material, and also by a new series of
specially commissioned full-colour photos showing some of the very best
surviving historic cars. The complete span of right-hand-drive vehicles
featured includes the conventional rear-wheel-drive cars of the Andre Citroën
era 1919-1934, the Traction Avant of 1955-1975 as well as the Citroën-Maserati
SM of 1970-1975 and the later GS/GSA, CX and BX models.
Leatherbound Edition:This special edition of Eighty Years of Citroën in the
United Kingdom
is bound in dark blue leather by the well-known firm of
Sangorski and Sutcliffe and fits inside a custom made box.
- 270 pages
- 240 mm x 330 mm (portrait)
- 400+ black and white and color photographs
- Available in Standard hardback or Leatherbound Editions
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Author Biography
John Reynolds is a life-long Citroën enthusiast who, as a professional motoring author and journalist, has made a special study of the Double Chevron marque.
He has contributed to numerous British, French, Dutch and Japanese motoring journals including Autocar, Classic Cars, Classic & Sports Car, Automobilia, Retroviseur, 2CV Magazine, Citroexpert, Super Car Graphic and the Daily Telegraph Saturday Review.
He has also published several other books on Citroën topics including a biography of Andre Citroën, an account of the life story of the Citroën 2CV and a study of the genesis and technical evolution of the Citroën DS and ID models.
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