{"id":19034,"date":"2019-05-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/citron-type-c-5-hp\/"},"modified":"2020-10-06T11:52:13","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T11:52:13","slug":"citron-type-c-5-hp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/en\/citron-type-c-5-hp\/","title":{"rendered":"Citro\u00ebn Type C 5 HP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

To reach the top of registration statistics with a brand new car brand within just a few years has only been achieved by a few people so far. One of them was Andr\u00e9 Citro\u00ebn, who launched his first production car, the Type A 10 HP, in 1919 and was already firmly established in his home market France in the 1920s. His leasing and car rental programs also contributed to this. Known by only a few people nowadays: Andr\u00e9 Citro\u00ebn also donated 165,000 road signs for French roads, established a company kindergarten, a company health insurance fund and a pension fund for his employees, let them play in a factory orchestra on request and showed various objects of other cultures, brought to France by the expeditions taken with the Type B halftrack vehicles in the 1920s, at schools around the country to allow children to think outside the box. On the occasion of the company’s centenary, Citro\u00ebn is currently looking back at selected models of their history and has now arrived in the 1920s with the Type C 5 HP, which we would now like to introduce to you in more detail.

The Type C was presented to the public in 1921 as a new compact car. Under the direction of technical director Edmond Moyet they developed an open two- or three-seater (then with central rear seat), foldable fabric top and usually a so-called Torpedo body style, which had only a small door on the passenger’s side. On the driver’s side, the spare wheel could be mounted, which was even more important back in those days with usually loose road surface. Andr\u00e9 Citro\u00ebn asked his engineers for a high level of serviceability and economy in his specification sheet, in order to also reach inexperienced drivers, women and younger drivers from the middle class. For this purpose they developed a four-cylinder engine with 856 cc of displacement and 11 hp. This enabled the car to reach a topspeed of 60 kph (37 mph) and to have an average fuel consumption of five liters per 100 kilometers.<\/p>\n\n\n

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