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C6 Berline Luxe
The Company in 1929
- During the Paris Motor Show, Citroën again organizes "open days" at the Quai de Javel factory.
- Annual production : 102 891 vehicles.
The models in 1929
- April sees the arrival of the C6E, 7 cm longer than the original C6 and proportionately wider. Bumpers and "Securit" safety glass are fitted as standard. The 2,442 cm3 engine develops 42 bhp at 3,000 rpm. Rated 14 bhp, the C6E has a 3-speed gearbox, travels at 105 km/h and consumes 14 litres/100 km. By December 1929, 5,090 examples have been produced.
- In September, Citroën launches the C6F, a vehicle that is even wider, more spacious, better equipped and with an improved finish. It is equipped with a 2,442 cm3 engine developing 45 bhp at 3,000 rpm. Rated 14 bhp, it travels at 105 km/h and consumes 14 litres/100 km. A total 37,119 examples are produced between September 1929 and July 1931.
- The first French high-speed truck - the C61 - is also launched in 1929. Equipped with the 6-cylinder engine from the C6F developing 42 bhp, it offers a payload of 1,800 kg, a total laden weight of 3,800 kg and a completely enclosed all-steel cab. .
In the news in 1929
- The beginning of a worldwide economic crisis is marked by "Black Thursday"on Wall Street and the collapse of the New York Stock Exchange.
- The Lateran Treaty between the Holy See and Italy marks the establishment of the Vatican as an independent state.
- Mermoz and Guillaumet inaugurate the official Santiago-Buenos Aires airmail service. Admiral Byrd flies over the South Pole.
- The physicist Felix Bloch formulates the theory of semiconductors, which led to the development of the transistor. Hans Berger perfects the electroencephalograph. Werner Forssmann invents the heart probe.
- The BBC begins experimental television programmes. Paul Claudel publishes The Satin Slipper, Jean Cocteau The Incorrigible Children, William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury and Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms. Hergé draws the first of many Tintin books: Tintin in Russia.