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Citroman

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  1. Well he might have been responsable for the tunnels but to abandon them . I heard also that a lot of miners (the French too) were happier to tunnel than to be in the trenches.
  2. They used Paris buses for people but also to transport meat. See the meat being taken out.
  3. Nice...like the several mines still loaded at the belgian WW1 frontlines.
  4. Picture of getting rid of handgrenades in Switzerland after WW1...very safe system..
  5. At the volvo club they talked about synthetic petrol. It was already in test production. They said in future it could be made at home in an installation not bigger than a fridge.???
  6. Nice truck, You can also contact de Berliet Foundation in France. But you might know that already of course. They might have a lot of info.
  7. Thanks for your info. I know there were infantry soldiers interned with the villagers. Even with my grandparents in their little house with 12 children!! The soldiers were very pleased to be able to use showers at the local coalmines. Later on they were called away for the Battle of the Bulge.
  8. At 14 februari 1945 my mother and my aunt had an accident involving a GMC army truck. In our village at the German frontier many sidewalks were packed with artillery shells. The Amercian soldiers were loading shells and allowed the kids to hang on running boards of the slow driving trucks. At one moment my mother and my aunt fell off because the jerrycan they were holding on broke loose. They both had 2 broken legs and my aunt was wounded at the head rather badly. Than a lot of panic, Jeeps were rushed to the scene, my aunt was taken to the hospital immediatly. My mother was taken to the American first aid post first. They put splints on her legs and brought her to the hospital too. The two girls have been in the hospital for weeks. The Americans soldiers came to visit several times and brought choclat. But this was taken away by the "german" nuns in the hospital, to distribute to all the kids in the hospital. The girls both recovered and even became gymnastic teachers!! My question, i would like to know which transport unit was in the area at that time. So i could try to find some report of the accident just for history sake. It was in the south of the Netherlands in the towns of Eygelshoven and Kerkrade.
  9. The seller says it are 1917 Peugeots. I can see a red cross on one side and an USA flag on an other vehicle. I am not shure if it really are Peugeots. Fiat? The cars are fitted with Michelin disc wheels.
  10. I have seen one before. In the stubs at the side you can put "road" wheels to move it around over an longer distance.
  11. https://nos.nl/video/2461444-vlaamse-handelaar-heeft-honderden-tanks-voor-de-oorlog-in-oekraine-te-koop
  12. It's rather old (1910s) something like this. A RHD car with right hand (outside) shifter...
  13. You can put a few brass screws in the threaded part to fix it and than cut the thread in them too.
  14. Strange the sidecar has it's own acetylene generator.
  15. We had a Peugeot van. I put this aluminum insulation foil that they put behind radiators on the roof with double sided tape. Than i screwed in a plate of laquered plywood. Worked very nice. Just a few self tapping scews will do.
  16. Can't you do something with the gun coupola? Put an other lid with vents on in winter?
  17. Ok you are right, on the other pictures it looked like a wood grain. You could try to locate some of this stuff at a firm that reconditions big electric motors. Isn't it also called pertinax?
  18. As long as you don't eat it afterwards it will be ok i think...😉
  19. Must have been an very old santa to have this on his attic...😁
  20. I have one of those house moisture eaters in the car. It's a lot cheeper but, ou have to empty it sometimes. But it's a small car. Could ventilation not help? Make something that can be put on top of the door windows.
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