French industrialist who founded the Citroen automobile company in 1919 and applied American-style mass production methods to the European car industry, growing it into one of the continent's largest manufacturers by the early 1930s. He is also remembered for popularizing double helical gearing, later adopted as Citroen's own company emblem. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Citroen founded the Citroen automobile company in 1919, leading it to become the fourth largest automobile manufacturer in the world by the beginning of the 1930s.
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André-Gustave Citroën (French:
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Citroen founded the Citroen automobile company in 1919, leading it to become the fourth largest automobile manufacturer in the world by the beginning of the 1930s.
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André-Gustave Citroën (French: [ɑ̃dʁe ɡystav sitʁɔɛn]; 5 February 1878-3 July 1935) was a French industrialist and founder of major automaker Citroën.
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