{"id":14483,"date":"2019-08-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/citron-type-h\/"},"modified":"2020-12-07T16:09:37","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T16:09:37","slug":"citron-type-h","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/en\/citron-type-h\/","title":{"rendered":"Citro\u00ebn Type H"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

With the 100th anniversary of the Citro\u00ebn brand, car fans can enjoy a particularly highlighted classic car from the extensive history of the French company every month. Normally, this was done in chronological order. For the month of August, however, they turned back a few pages in their books in order to not forget a special vehicle. Although most car fans are familiar with Citro\u00ebn mainly for models such as the 2CV, Traction Avant or SM, the Type H with its unusual corrugated iron looks is also one of the vehicles you will find in the collective memory, at least throughout Europe. No wonder, after all, production began a year before the legendary 2CV in 1947 and ran without interruption or deep changes until 1981. By then, more than 489,000 units had left the assembly lines. With the Type H, Citro\u00ebn inherited the TUB, of which only 1,748 vehicles were produced between 1939 and 1941 due to the war. Here, the front-wheel drive concept, which later also made the Type H successful, had already been tried out by turning the engine and gearbox of the Traction Avant 180 degrees around (engine in front of the front axle, gearbox behind). Of course, the direction of rotation of the engine also had to be reversed. This transport vehicle also had a self-supporting body made of corrugated sheet metal, whereby the wave form is not just an optical gimmick, but gives the vehicle more stiffness.

This principle has been transferred to the Type H on a significantly extended scale. Citro\u00ebn offered it ex works only as a 4.28 meters long delivery van or as a bare chassis with driver’s cab. However, the vehicle was deliberately designed to allow as manyy variations as possible in order to meet all the requirements of transport companies, craftsmen and other customers. Thanks to the front-wheel drive, the area behind the passenger cabin could be equipped individually, which was done by various external coachbuilders (‘Carrossiers’). These also offered modifications that were sold through official Citro\u00ebn dealers, but were not carried out at the factory. These included, for example, ‘Modification A’ (40 centimeters of rear overhang) to ‘Modification F’ (wheelbase extended by 1.2 meters and 60 centimeters rear overhang) or roof elevations of 10, 20 or 40 centimeters including the roof of the driver’s cab or without.<\/p>\n\n\n

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