Citroen Type B2

The Citroën B2 was the second model Citroën produced, and so the second European car built with modern mass production methods. It was made at the company's Paris factory on the Quai de Javel between May 1921 and July 1926 and replaced the Type A. Its four-cylinder engine grew to 1,452 cc, giving 20 hp at 2,100 rpm and a claimed top speed of 72 km/h through a three-speed gearbox without synchromesh, and it was also called the 10CV. The factory reached 200 cars a day by 1925 using methods the founder had studied from Henry Ford, and 89,841 B2 cars were made. The all-steel B10 and then the B12 overlapped and finally replaced it. Half-track B2 cars with Kegresse tracks crossed the Sahara in 1922 and took part in the Croisiere noire expedition across Africa.