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The 12th International Citroën Car Clubs Meeting, Amherst, Mass. USA 2002

CitroExpert, the Dutch, independent all-Citroën-magazine, celebrates its fifteenth birthday in November.
After the demise of the French Citroën Revue, to which Wouter Jansen was a regular contributor, he and publisher Fred Jansz started CitroExpert in the autumn of 1996 making it the oldest surviving all-Citroën magazine in Europe. The first issues, although full of articles of great interest, were perhaps a bit lean and modest. But that changed: fifteen years and 90 issues later reveals a mature magazine with as many different Citroën-related articles as there are Citroëns. To celebrate this birthday, a special issue on Citroën in the United States has been published. As it is nearly a century now since André Citroën crossed the Atlantic in the SS France to visit New York thereby getting inspiration to become the most important car manufacturer in Europe in the twenties and early thirties.
The special issue on Citroën in the USA reveals many unknown facts and documents which are of interest to specialists as well as the general public. How André Citroën set foot on American soil in June 1913 for the first time; the negotiations with General Motors to become a part of that conglomerate; the first official American distributor in 1921 and much more...