TECH TORQUE

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INDEX of this Page
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Owners Manuals & Instruction Books
- Owners Manuals
- Spare Parts & Repair Manuals Updated Dec'09
- Wiring Diagrams
- Accessory Catalogues
- Lucas Catalogues
- Lucas Technical Service Overseas Correspondence Course NEW Jan'10
- Solex Handbooks and Brochures

Technical Articles from "Floating Power" (TOC Magazine)
Technical Specifications
Model Guide
Model Evolution
Brochures
Advertisements
Articles and books Updated Dec'09
What the Papers Say Updated Dec'09
Traction Art
Tractions on Film Posters (Courtesy of "Cit City")
Traction Literature on the Web
Tony Jackson's Citroën Site

REMEMBER: IF You Can't Find the Answer Here......., The TOC Help Line is always willing to Help

Other Items of Automotive Interest

And for those of you with a DS.....

Early DS Brochures from 1959

Tony Jackson's Site

Owners Manuals & Instruction Books (Click on Image to open)

Owners Manuals
Instruction Book for "Super 12" (1934) (62 Pages - English)		Courtesy of Mick Popka	Light 15/Big 15 Owners Manual (1953) With Line drawings (26 Pages - English)		Courtesy of Tony Jackson
15-Six Owners Manual (English) (JPG)		Courtesy of Marcus Lasance	15-Six Owners Manual (1949) (28 Pages - English)		Courtesy of Gerry Propsting
Light 15 Owners Manual (1952) With Photographs (18 Pages - English)		Courtesy of Mick Popka	7 & 11 Maintenance Manual (64 pages - French)		Courtesy of Mick Popka
Instruction Book for "Twelve" "Light Fifteen" and "Fifteen" (1938) pdf (27 pages + Oil Chart English)		Courtesy of Fred Annells 06-2009	Instruction Book for "Light Fifteen" (1939) pdf (29 pages + Oil Chart English)		Courtesy of Fred Annells 06-2009
Citroën Guarantee (The actual one that came with Fred's Coupe!) (5 pages CC198/5m/7/3)		Courtesy of Fred Annells 06-2009

Spare Parts & Repair Manuals
15-Six Repair Manual Text & Illustrations (1957) (272 Pages - English)		Courtesy of Gerry Propsting, (Re-formatted by Tony Jackson)	Spare parts Catalogue 1944-49 (1950) (255 pages - English)		Courtesy of Steve Shine & Tony Jackson
4 Cyl Repair Manual Text & Illustrations (1956) (260 Pages - English)		Courtesy of Gerry Propsting & Tony Jackson	1935 Body repair manual for 7 & 11 (10Mb file) (62 pages French)		Courtesy of Alistair Pattillo
Chassis Dictionary (18Mb file) (108 pages French)		Courtesy of Alistair Pattillo	ERSA Spares manual with drawings and part numbers (16Mb Pdf) (52 pages French) NEW		Courtesy of Mick Popka NOTE: Accessible to TOC Members only

Wiring Diagrams
Wiring Diagrams for all French built Tractions (7, 11 & 15) (English)		Courtesy of Swedish B11 Club & Karel Beukema toe Water	Lucas 12 volt Wiring Diagram for Slough Built Light 15 (1 page English)		Courtesy of Mick Popka

Accessory Catalogues
Pre War? Accessory Catalogue for 7 & 11 CV (37 pages French)		Courtesy of Mick Popka

Lucas Catalogues
1950 Light 15 Lucas Equipment and Spare Parts Catalogue (7 pages English)		Courtesy of Alistair Pattillo	1952 Maintenance & Instruction Manual for Lucas Electrical Equipment (26 pages English)		Courtesy of Gerry Propsting
Lucas Technical Correspondence Courses NEW Click Here to download all 10 pdf files in a Zip format (15Mb)		NEW	NEW		NEW
Overview (5 pages English/pdf)	NEW	Courtesy of Alistair Pattillo	Session 1 - Battery (29 pages English/pdf)	NEW	Courtesy of Alistair Pattillo

Session 2 - Starter Motor (33 pages English/pdf)	NEW	Courtesy of Alistair Pattillo	Session 3 - Ignition (34 pages English/pdf)	NEW	Courtesy of Alistair Pattillo
Session 4 - Generators (21 pages English/pdf)	NEW	Courtesy of Alistair Pattillo	Session 5 -Voltage Regulator (27 pages English/pdf)	NEW	Courtesy of Alistair Pattillo
Session 6 - Circuits (19 pages English/pdf)	NEW	Courtesy of Alistair Pattillo	Session 7 -Lighting (26 pages English/pdf)	NEW	Courtesy of Alistair Pattillo
Session 8 - Trafficators, Wipers, Horns, Indicators & Interior Lights (60 pages English/pdf)	NEW	Courtesy of Alistair Pattillo	Session 9 -Electrically Controlled Overdrives (You wish!) (17 pages English/pdf)	NEW	Courtesy of Alistair Pattillo

Solex Handbooks
Solex VB. HF & AH Descriptive Booklet (Used on Light 12 & 7c) (English)		Courtesy of Alistair Pattillo	Selection and Tuning of the Solex Carburetor (Type 28/32/40) (47 pages- English)		Courtesy of Mick Popka
1938 Solex 30 PAAI Descriptive leaflet (6 Pages English)		Courtesy of Alistair Hickling

Technical articles from "Floating Power"

NOTE: A full set of articles covering the period 1976 - 2008 can be found in the "Members Only" section of the website.

Access is restricted to subscribing members of TOC only... Why not subscribe today?

The Six Volter by Chris Ryle - July 1999
Traction Electrics - Are they your weakest link? by John Ogborne April/May 2002

Gearbox reconditioning by Richard Sheil - May 2007
Tractionitis Oleopneumatitis by Karel Beukema toe Water - Oct 2007
Description and set up of Lucas Compensated Voltage Control Regulators and Cut-Out Units by Roger Grix - With thanks to Gerry Propsting.
Did you know that the full range of technical Articles for the period 1976 - 2008 are now available to all TOC members in the "Members Only" area?

Technical Specifications

All of the technical stuff you need to know about the 11BL & 11BN (Courtesy of CTA (Sweden)

Citroen 12 & 15 HP Quick Check-Over Data Sheet (Courtesy of Jonathan Hopper) May '08

SKF Bearing Numbers
Specification sheet for all bearings on:
- 15/6 models (1938 - 55)
- 7, 11 Normale, 11 Legere 1938 - 55 (Courtesy of Tony Jackson)

NOTE: Also includes details of SKF Bearing Ref Nos. for 2CV 1949-60, DS/D19, Bijou and AMI 6!

Model Guide

"I saw one of those!.....

It was black and had chevrons on the radiator grille and big front wings.... I think the running boards must have fallen off!"

Familiar?

Now you too can identify:

Legere or Normale?
4 cylinders or 6?
Saloon, Commercial or Familialle?

with the "I-Spy" guide to Tractions! Click here to read a brief overview of the different models of Traction produced in Slough (UK), Paris (France) & Forrest (Belgium).

Model Evolution
Click on the images below to see a chronology of the changes that were made to the 7, 11 and 15-6 models

Type 7 1934-38		Type 11 1934-55		Type 15 1938-55

Brochures

French 11 Normale 1954			French Model Range & Pricelist Oct 1937 (Thanks to Jonathan Hopper) (May '08)
French Model Range Feb 1936 (Thanks to Jonathan Hopper) (May '08)			Dutch Booklet and Pricelist June 1937 (Thanks to Jonathan Hopper) (May '08)
L'ESSAI d'une Traction Avant (Test of the TA) Sep 1937 (Thanks to Jonathan Hopper) (May '08)			French Model Range April 1939
French Model Range March 1939			Livret entretien 11D NOTE: This document is on the GMT site in the "Technical Doc" Section

Advertisements
Price List 1938/39			Light 15
The Autocar 1949			Catalogue of "Wilmonda" Traction Specialist Tools

Articles & Books
Progressive Maintenance Practical Motorist June 1957			Greasing Schedule Low-Res High-Res (Courtesy of Howard Spiers)
Profile Publications Citroen Traction Avant (1934-55) (12 Pages) Late 50's? Courtesy of Al Pattillo			La 15-Six Citroen Reprint from "Automobilia No 24" April 1998 (French)
The CDW Citroen	Article reprinted from "The Autocar" November 1949 About one mans Dream coming true!		Rebuilding the Gemmer Steering Box	Article reproduced from an original written by Bob Carabbio (Thanks to Walter Callens)
La Suspension Gregoire 1951 French (Thanks to Alec Bilney) Aug 08			The Automobile Reprint of April 1984 Article (English) Dec 08
Buyers Guide Re-print from 1987 Drive Aid "choosing a Classic Car"			Why Citroën Scanned from the original Paperback Originally published in 1977 contains many items on Tractions as well as other models 130 Pages 23Mb
The Citroën Scanned copy of the 1985 brochure covering the history of Citroën" By Jonathan Wood 32 Pages English 16Mb NEW NOTE: Accessible to TOC Members only
l'automobiliste No. 37 1975 pdf 25 Mb French			l'automobiliste No. 38 1975 pdf 31.7Mb French Jul 09
Practical Classics March 2009 Re-print			Classics Monthly December 2009 3Mb Pdf NOTE: Accessible to TOC Members only

What the Papers Say......
Sunday Express 1992	Practical Classics 1977	Weekend Telegraph 1993	Classic Car Weekly Page 1 Page 2 2007 Aug 2009
Auto Express 2009 5Mb pdf NEW Dec 2009 NOTE: Accessible to TOC Members only

Traction Art
Brochure from an exhibition which was sponsored by Gallic Distributors Ltd., featuring some interesting interpretations of the "Traction" and a series of pictures depicting "Chevrons"

Traction Literature on the Web

Note: These links all point to pages on this amazing Italian Site!

See also the GMT Site here and select "Technical Docs" for the

CATALOGUE DES PIECES DE RECHANGE 7 et 11 (PR420 Edition195) (French)
Procès-Verbal de réception des Mines 11D
Livret publicitaire d'époque (cliquez dessus pour les agrandir)
Notice d'entretien 11D

Other Automotive Items of Interest

Halfords 1961 Catalogue

60 pages of "Accessories for all Road users"

pdf 32Mb NEW Oct'2009

Tony Jackson's Site

Tony is in the process of collecting the largest resource of Citroen Publications. These start with part of a Traction Body Repair manual right the way through to a CX Parts manual. Tony's collection includes the invaluable Red Disk and Green Disk for LHS/LHM models which he describes as follows:

"As well as the factory publications mentioned here there are handbooks, articles by owners, drawings, information about tools, hydraulic fluids etc. kindly hosted by Ben Mack at: http://www.agua.nu/ds-files/tony-jackson/ Mostly, information for the later, Mineral Fluid cars is to be found in the folder ‘green-cd’, and that for the earlier, Synthetic Fluid cars in the ‘red-cd’ folder. Beware, though, particularly the red disk has information which is highly relevant to ‘green-fluid’ cars".

Click here to visit Tony's Site

Can you help?

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A Big Thank You to the following who have contributed the material above:

Fred Annells
Alec Bilney
Walter Callens
Andy Cartwright
Jonathan Hopper
Tony Jackson
Marcus Lasance
John Ogborne
Al Pattillo
Mick Popka
Gerry Propsting
Chris Ryle
Richard Sheil
Howard Spiers
Karel Beukema toe Water
Paul & Pat Defelice


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