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The gigantic Citroën hall already shown #1620, Europe Square in Paris (1931 - 1938)


Europe Square is also a bridge near Saint-Lazare Station

A giant model scale 2:1 for a giant showroom, working demonstration of the MFP (Motor Floatting Power) on a C4 G, a novelty 1931.

The downscale model C4 IX forground has not the MFP.

Like a motorshow with only one constructor ...

Only twelve years and already a retrospective !

Citroën is showing the C4 G assembling.
 
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Decoration of the "Grand Palais", roofs and lights, during the Paris motorshow


Motorshows at the "Grand Palais" from the Arts Deco until the moving to "Porte de Versailles".

Andre Granet is the decorator who imagined a new roof every year or barely. He had to hide the metalic profils of the building that was not yet accepted by the public at this time. The Eiffel tower is another famous example.

1928

1928

1929 (a green motorshow without car?)

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1931

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1946

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1961 - Times are changing, from the fifties the visitor can see the whole glass roof of this amazing building.
Lights and decorations are lighter than before.
 
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The Parisian metro at the age of the Sprague train (1908 - 1983)



14 lines and the "Ligne de Sceaux" unchanged from 1952 to 1970.
From around 1975, there is a junction between Line 13 and Line 14.
 

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The "classic" Sprague train - 1935

The Nord - Sud (line 12) with the big cab, the oldest metro I remember, was used until 1972.

After the tragedy of 1903, there is a supply current that control the powered bogies.

From the cab, the driver controls the different electric motors. It is the special feature of the Sprague train.

Some hard seats of wood for the second class passengers.
 

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The metro on tyres


MP 55 (P for pneu - 55 is the year of the launch)

MP 55 : Powered bogie with tyres and pneumatic suspension

MP 59

MP 59

MP 73

MP 73

From the movie "Peur sur la ville" : The actor Jean-Paul Belmondo on the roof of a train MP 73 (line 6).
 
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