French Show With Italian Go
September, 1971
French Show With Italian GoWhen Andre Citroen Ran the Company he founded in 1919, his cars carried no identifying name plates. A Citron automobile was a Citron because it looked like one and, if that wasn't enough, it mounted the double-chevron/herringbone emblem (^) suggesting, if only to those who knew, the gear-cutting business on which Citroen's fortunes--he was not a one-fortune man--were founded. Andé Citroën had little in common with a 1971 chairman of the board, who is vulnerable, wary,...