Citroen logo history
Citroën logo looks like something you can see an American soldier cartoon - two inverted vs. André Citroën - imagine one of those old black and white photographs with an old man with a white beard - was launched in the motor trade by building gear before diversifying into the car and the two angular <<for representation of gear teeth in honor of the ancient principles of engineer fettlings
The company's famous "double chevron" logo derives from André Citroën the first companies to start reducing the company pioneered the mass production of double helically cut gear teeth that mesh in a chevron.
During the First World War led André Citroën factory shells, but once finished, decided to create his own brand of cars, ran the year 1919. To that end, he traveled to United States and explores the production chain of Henry Ford. Copy the system and transformed his workshop in Paris and developed its first model called type A. This is the first car manufactured in Europe series.
Citroën in 1924 with the collaboration of an American engineer, Edward Gowan Budd built since 1899 of steel for railway wagons but now dedicated to the construction of bodies for cars, mainly for Dodge. So in this way, Citroën introduced the first in Europe bodywork steel for automobiles. Competitors using wood for its body soon copied the idea and introduced their most aerodynamic cars that made the line of Citroën develop their cars in order to modernize them. Citroën used as a strategy of selling low-priced cars, but this led to many financial losses. Before accountable to their bankers, André Citroën to the top of the 30's tried to save his business by launching a revolutionary model called the Traction Avant (front wheel drive). This car dominated all rivals for 15 years but had a very expensive. In 1935, Michelin took over from Pierre André Citroën in the direction of the company.
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