Reply To: French Ownership History?

[1166Participant]

Hello Robert,

How much information do you have for your car?

An appendix in Olivier de Serres’ ‘La Grand Livre’ gives serial numbers for each type of Traction for each year of production, so it is possible to estimate when your car was made using your car’s serial number pro-rata between the first and last numbers. For example, first and last serial number for 11BL for 1953, or whatever.

I am aware of a very detailed recent new (Dutch??) book analysing Traction production numbers, but I don’t have access to a copy of that book.

For my car, my estimate is week 16 (starting 15 April 1957) or week 20 (starting 15 May) – there is some doubt over whether the number of serial numbers actually represents completed cars, but this is because 1957 was the last and incomplete production year, to 25 July 1957.

if you share your serial number and model type, then I should be able to give you the first and last serial number for your car type and year.

This doesn’t help with ownership history, but it points to when the car was first sold.