Photo Gallery «Tracta 1926-1934 - French front-wheel drive car even before the Traction Avant»

There have been around 10,000 car brands and designers - most of them have disappeared. One of these vanished brands is Tracta, a pioneer of front-wheel drive between 1926 and 1934. The legendary Citroën Traction Avant of 1934 was not the first French "front-wheel drive" car. Rather, the French pioneer of this type of drive was J. A. Grégoire, who founded Automobiles Tracta in 1926. Their front-wheel drive was based on patents held by Pierre Fenaille and J. A. Grégoire and used four-piece joints which, when joined together to form two interlocking hemispheres, enabled a large angle between the half-shaft and the drive.