The enigma remains. P.H.-T. Schmidt ?
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Thank you for your question and the enclosed photograph from 1934-1935 of a Citroën bus. The bus is probably standing in front of the garage of Norsk Citroën A/S in Skøyen in Oslo, founded in 1930. The bus is dressed to service the route between the two coastal towns of Larvik and Sandefjord in southeastern Norway.
I am sorry to inform you that Norsk Folkemuseum does not have the actual bus in its collection. A shame really, beacuse the bus is a true gem!
What you have found is a photograph from the collection of Norsk Folkemuseum by the famous Norwegian photographer Anders Beer Wilse (1865-1949). In 1934-1935 Wilse probably had a commercial assignment to photograph vehicles for Citroën in Norway, as the museum have have around ten promotional photographs of different vehicles.
I have searched in the newspapers from this period, but haven’t found any information on this particular bus. We know that the Norwegian Citroën company did assemble vehicles in their garage in Skøyen Norway from 1931 and some years forward, but I don’t know if that was the case with this bus. The photograph is dated October 1 1935 in our archives.
Best wishes,
Unni Tandberg
Curator
Cultural History Division
Norsk Folkemuseum
