Word: citroens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...expression soyez braves. Only a man from the south of France would have said it. One never knows just which little item will lead to the criminals." But at week's end, the only other clues found by the Cannes police in a blinding mistral were the abandoned Citroen and, in the car, a pair of maroon gloves and Basque beret, all with Marseille labels. Mused one policeman darkly: "Probably left in the car to throw...
...there were a few exceptions-new models, as it were-which caused somewhat the same sensation as if Citroen had brought out a futuristic Kiddie Kar. They were eleven paintings which came straight from the nursery of the villa at Vallauris, where 6y-year-old Picasso and Franchise Gillot, his handsome young mistress, live with their two children, Claude (two) and Paloma (five months...
Last week, at Paris' 35th automobile "salon," in the huge, ugly Grand Palais, Renault, Citroen, Peugeot, Simca and Ford (of France) trotted out their latest models to compete for attention with exhibits from U.S., British, Italian and Czech motormakers. Some of the tiny French cars looked lost among the Lincolns and Cadillacs, the British Bentleys and Rolls-Royces, the Italian Alfa Romeos and Isotta-Fraschinis. But France had a luxury car of her own in Saoutchik's elegant, hand-built models: the light grey Delahaye, whose front fenders are bisected by mirrorlike wedges of gleaming chrome (price: about...
...Citroen auto plant and eventually Citroen's works manager. Then he went to Grantham...
...horsepower trading. For his 1942 33-h.p. Cadillac, a gift from Dwight Eisenhower, a dealer gave him "something less imposing": 1) a 16-h.p. Delahaye, which le grand Charlie handed over to a relief agency; 2) a 13-h.p. Hotchkiss for Mme. de Gaulle; 3) an n-h.p. Citroen for himself...