The motorcar production starts
— with good looking,
but otherwise normal cars
1919
After the war Citroën transfers the bomb factory to a car factory where he builds completely finished cars, ready to use.
With self-starter, headlights, hood, complete spare wheel etc.
10 HP Type A Citroën sees the daylight. The first mass-produced car in Europe, at an unusual low price.
The A-model is produced in two-three years, in ten different models. The engine has four cylinders,
1327 cc, and provides eighteen horsepowers at 2100 rpm. Top speed is around 65 km/h. It is produced a total of 24,093 cars of this model.
Tractor. During about one year it is produced about 500 tractors with steel wheels. The engine is the same as in the A-model.
1920
Type A Sport. More powerful engine (1452 cc, 22 hp at 2100 rpm) with a top speed of 75 km/h.
1921
B2 replaces Type A. The same engine as in the Type A Sport, but with slightly reduced power (twenty hp at 2100 rpm) and top speed 72 km/h.
1922
B2 Caddy. 22 hp at 2100 rpm and top speed 90 km/h.
Baker og Norman. B2-vans with 1.4 m long and 1.2 m high load rooms.
5CV Type C. This model is so simple and easy to deal with, that it becomes the ladies' car.
It is called "the little lemon," because most have lemon-yellow finish.
Citroën uses huge funds on advertising, among other things he make 150,000 road signs with Citroën's name
and emblem, and these are put up throughout France.
1923
Citroën starts producing large amounts of toy cars, they are of course copies of the major Citroën cars.
The first is the le Torpédo B2 10 HP. The first words the children shall learn, is Mama, Papa and Citroën!
1924
B10 replaces B2. It is much the same car, but now made entirely in metal.
1925
B12, with brakes on all four wheels.
Citroën buys Automobiles Mors. And this is the end of this brand.
1926
B14 and B15.
1927
B14F, B14G and B18.
1928
B14G Caddy, C4 and C6. C6 is the first Citroën with six-cylinder engine.
1929
C6E, C6F and C61. C61 is a truck.
1931
C6 CGL, luxury model.
1931
C4G and C6G, both with soft motor mounts to reduce vibration.
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