 Report and photos by Mike Tebbet: "Les Amis de la Traction Club de L’Aigle” held their seventeenth annual ‘Bourse d’Echange’ last weekend (19th October). Welcoming visitors at the entrance into the show was this ‘Traction on a string’ or is it ‘Traction in the Air’? This was a spectacular celebration of eighty years of the Traction since its launch in 1934. As usual the Bourse was inside a large market hall, with a much bigger range of stalls set outside in the surrounding surfaced area. A large number of Tractions of all years and types were parked nearby, with an even larger selection of 2CV’s and derivatives parked on a grass area nearby. An adjacent car park serving a supermarket was full to overflowing with visitors classic and vintage cars. To one side of the market hall on an open area large display of WWII vehicles included a Sherman tank. Inside the hall as well as the Bourse, the Club had laid out an impressive display mimicking a Motor Show or Salon and featuring of course the Citroen Traction. A 1934 first year example with the fabric roof slowly revolved on a turntable in the centre and was surrounded by examples of various others including a decapotable. A commerciale was set up to replicate the famous advertising image being loaded with a huge oak barrel. In one corner a car was in the camouflage livery as used by the French army and indeed by the Wehrmacht and French Resistance.This event has from gone from strength to strength in the last seventeen years. Your writer came away with a car boot full of ‘treasure’ to aid the restoration of the far too many projects in his garages!" |
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