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·Maybe there was some post-war deal that was made?? or they were manufactured here or something??
Does anyone know anything about this?
http://www.citroenet.org.uk/foreign/slough/slough-index.html
Classic car spotting this week.
http://www.citroenet.org.uk/foreign/slough/slough-index.html
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That explains it as most of them seem to be right-hand drive
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Pastorbottle
·Some Traction Avants were assembled in London at one stage, so not surprising that there are quite a few in the UK
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·Some Traction Avants were assembled in London at one stage, so not surprising that there are quite a few in the UK
So actually made in London rather than Slough (as per MRC's link)?
I guess that together with 30s Rolls Royce's, it's probably the most common 30s (originally) car that you still see on the road..
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·Bentley la Sarthe.. actually never seen one of these in the flesh, but they look amazing:
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·Some Traction Avants were assembled in London at one stage, so not surprising that there are quite a few in the UK
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·So actually made in London rather than Slough (as per MRC's link)?
Nope, it was Slough, some 20 miles from the centre of London and outside the (current) M25 border. It is possible that they had their registered office and main showroom in London which was very common. Even R-R did that when their cars were made in Crewe, 148 miles away.
https://citroenvie.com/citroen-slough-uk-manufacturing-history/
http://www.postcards-from-slough.co.uk/home/trade-and-industry/citroën/
Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough!
It isn't fit for humans now,
There isn't grass to graze a cow.
Swarm over, Death!
http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/intuition/Slough.html
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·1939 Bentley Embiricos Coupe:
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·1936 Bentley Embiricos Roadster
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·So actually made in London rather than Slough (as per MRC's link)?
I guess that together with 30s Rolls Royce's, it's probably the most common 30s (originally) car that you still see on the road..
Dunno where London came from.
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Pastorbottle
·Drives that and needs a fire extinguisher for a wheel chock?
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·The Jaguar E-Type Growler..
Stunning.. but they really should have looked in the English book of Slang before naming it.. Growler 😗
Stunning.. but they really should have looked in the English book of Slang before naming it.. Growler 😗
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·1965 Jaguar E-Type Lightweight Low Drag Coupe:
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·The Jaguar E-Type Growler..
Stunning.. but they really should have looked in the English book of Slang before naming it.. 😗
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·The need to put system that pipes a fake exhaust note out is hilarious. I also like how the bumper sticker says it is a zero emission electric car. Doesn't it have a three cylinder internal combustion engine generating its electricity?
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·The need to put system that pipes a fake exhaust note out is hilarious. I also like how the bumper sticker says it is a zero emission electric car. Doesn't it have a three cylinder internal combustion engine generating its electricity?
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·The need to put system that pipes a fake exhaust note out is hilarious. I also like how the bumper sticker says it is a zero emission electric car. Doesn't it have a three cylinder internal combustion engine generating its electricity?
So if you're only staying very local and plug-in recharging it every day, then it might actually be possible somehow😉
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·From my understanding, they can do a whopping 24 miles on full electric mode..
So if you're only staying very local and plug-in recharging it every day, then it might actually be possible somehow😉
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··Tend not to fret too muchOnly then if the charging is done by renewable power, if the sparks come from a coal power station then it’d be more ecological to run a proper petrol engine
See below extract from a study carried out by the universities of Exeter, Cambridge and Nijmegan
