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Also the "Quai De Javel" has been renamed - it is called the "Quai André Citroën" since October 9th, 1958 (at that moment Pierre Berçot is managing director of Citroën) - at least a little bit hints towards the glory of that former place.
Just to bring in one annotation about the history of that ground:The name of the place (Javel) has it's origin in a small settlement called "Javet" outside the Fermiers Généraux, the Paris city walls, containing among some smaller houses also parts of the cloistre Sainte-Geneviève and a windmill which at the end of the 18th century had been a meeting point for the loosely liberalists and duellists. Dissoluteness and unrestraintness, love and death, was usual.
One century later the Earl of Artois bought the ground and settled a chemical plant for several goods such as the well known peroxid "Eau de Javel".
For an interim period later, the brilliant constructor Gustave Eiffel has used parts of that Javel ground to prepare elements of the Eiffel tower, the landmark of the 1888 world expo.
1889 the chemical plants have been replaced by some Paris administration buildings and the "Aciéries de France", a steel production plant.
Before the car production plant had been mounted, the halls have been established (officially opened June 15th, 1915) by André Citroën for the production of in total 23 millon grenade shells for the first world war. After war end, the automobile manufacturing started May, 1919. The Citroën A Type, a three-seater torpedo model, was presented June 4th.
Next re-organization and alteration of production plants was done in 1933 to cover the demands for the new Traction Avant model. Several alterations took place later on, until the Javel facilities had been closed in 1974 and shifted over to Aulnay, a much bigger area outside of Paris.
By the way, did I tell you that there is quite a good number of advantages of these kind of "virtual garages" ? At the first go there comes into my mind:
But there are also a couple of disadvantages which you should keep in mind when using these vitual things:
Hmm, there are zillions of arguments which would complete this list (send me an email and we can add more items here).
Normally this virtual location shouldn't be called "Quai de Javel" but "Rennes - La Janais" since the Ami production took place over there. But somehow I feel it's better to find the Quai within the Paris Geocities pages than Rennes somewhere on the Hollywood Boulevard (:-)))...
Somebody any ideas to explain the 4496 address ? My suggestions:
Good arguments can be submitted to me.
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