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1950 Citroën Light Fifteen 'Traction' [11 BL]

1950 Citroën Light Fifteen [11 BL] in The Passing Stranger, Movie, 1954

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1950 Citroën Light Fifteen 'Traction' [11 BL]

00:37:03 Vehicle used by a character or in a car chase

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Author	Message
humungus ◊ 2024-05-02 13:53
rjluna2 ◊ 2024-05-02 14:42	Is that Citroen 'Traction'?
dsl ◊ 2024-05-02 15:28	LGY 512 = London, May 50 to Sept 51 "allocated in blocks".
fred1969 ◊ 2024-05-02 19:01	rjluna2 wrote Is that Citroen 'Traction'? Citroen 15/6 1947-1955 here probably a UK version. Note: These are Citroen 7; 11; 15 or the great novelty for the time was no longer propulsion, but front-wheel drive and very low ground clearance that made them powerful and stable cars (and very used by gangter as seen in the movies;) Rather than saying their numbers, the French quickly called it "traction";) -- Last edit: 2024-05-02 19:02:19
Gamer ◊ 2024-05-02 19:02	You can cut the last three years. And it's definitely not going to be a 7, which was prewar only. -- Last edit: 2024-05-02 19:02:40
fred1969 ◊ 2024-05-02 19:05	Gamer wrote You can cut the last three years. And it's definitely not going to be a 7, which was prewar only. You're right. the year should be specified with some details
johnfromstaffs ◊ 2024-05-02 20:56	http://www.citroenet.org.uk/foreign/slough/traction/traction-02.html My Dad had a 12, BEA192, iirc it had a wooden dashboard. This example does not look Slough built, seems to have a French design grille. -- Last edit: 2024-05-02 20:59:32
zodiac ◊ 2024-05-03 17:46	All of the Slough built Citroëns I've seen have had lights on top of the wings and most of them have had a (more or less) straight bumper. http://www.citroenet.org.uk/foreign/slough/traction/traction-01.html -- Last edit: 2024-05-03 17:46:27
130rapid ◊ 2024-05-03 20:21	Interesting. So, it's quite possible than RHD Tractions were built in France too. Few years later RHD 'Deeses' were built on three places already: - 'Before local [Australian] assembly started in August 1961, Citroen DS and ID RHD imports came from France, South Africa and UK'. BTW, it has narrow body -> 11 BL.
johnfromstaffs ◊ 2024-05-03 20:39	I had forgotten the side lamps. iirc they were chrome plated torpedo shapes like those found on Austins. The electrics were a mixture of all sorts, and I think I recall a Jaeger speedometer.
dsl ◊ 2024-05-03 20:41	This one is RHD. My Citroen-in-UK book says all post-WW2 RHD Tractions in UK were Slough builds; no French builds ever sold here after the war - a very small number of French RHDs were made in specific circumstances for French embassy and government dept use in RHD countries. So if this is a normal civilian car, it's a Slough build whatever detail quirks it might have. Also noted that a few Slough builds on the citroen.net page don't have straight bumpers. For general info, Slough RHDs were exported everywhere round the world which took RHDs - particularly across the Commonwealth - long list of countries mentioned. Due to agreements with UK government for permission to allow postwar Slough builds to happen, this export effort was turbocharged which meant very few in %age terms were sold here. Slough also supplied the CKD kits for Irish builds, as well as building small batches (the figure of 304 is quoted) of LHDs for US, CDN and Switzerland as markets which preferred the Slough spec (comfy interior, 12 volt electrics, colour choice beyond french one-size-fits-all black). We can now add Gibraltar to the Slough LHD list. -- Last edit: 2024-05-06 21:23:19
sixcyl ◊ 2024-05-03 22:54	This one is interesting but complicated to identify due to lack of complete and precise documentation. In my bible ''Toutes les Citroën'' René Bellu Editions Delville 1979, we only find pictures of straight bumpers. The one shown here refers to French built post-war 1947-1952 Citroën 11BL. The ''Winged chevron'' on the grill was used on 1952-1954 French 11BL. But the rims are those of 1947 YM Though actually a RHD indeed, I'd go for a French built probably made in the case mentionned in the comments above, not a Slough built.
dsl ◊ 2024-05-03 23:26	Not totally clear in these pics, but one detail which might solve it as sidelights on B-pillar. I don't know what French builds had, but all post-war Slough-builds pictures in my book have semaphores with a blob for the light at the end of a shiny arm coming down from the guttering. I think I see a blob in the right place in the pics - but maybe not tall enough? - but no real hint of the shiny arm. Compare this 52 Slough
humungus ◊ 2024-05-03 23:52	Here's the subject car's B pillar: -- Last edit: 2024-05-04 00:21:52
dsl ◊ 2024-05-04 00:06	That's definitely a semaphore ....

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