The British D Series

Unlike the Paris cars which were equipped with 6 volts electrics, the Slough cars used 12 volts from the beginning.

Cars were equipped with Lucas lights - the rear clusters comprised 3 pairs of small round lamps - the outermost being the tail lamps, the middle pair being the stop lamps while the inner pair were reversing lamps.

A close up of the rear indicator fitted with Lucas light [left] - compare this with the light from a French car of similar vintage [right].

Perhaps the greatest difference of all was to be found in the interior of the ID - the avant garde dash of the French cars was replaced by a slab of timber and the seats were upholstered in leather.

While the ID was viewed as a downmarket version of the DS in France, in Britain it was a luxury car in its own right.

The DS sported a mirror image version of the French car's fascia, initially fitted with rectangular instruments and later with round Smiths instruments thereby anticipating the French 3 dial layout used from 1969 on.

The DS was extremely unusual in being a right hand drive car with right hand gearchange.

The Slough factory was the first in the world to offer a manual DS, called the DW.

A right hand drive Cabriolet DS - although listed in the Slough catalogues, no cabriolets were built in Britain.UK market Cabriolets were equipped with Lucas electrics although built in France.

1966 Slough built DS Pallas 

Dashboard from an UK market, Paris built D Super - 1972