Handwritten note: tracking list for the six Hydraulic Expert Notebooks

In this document

This handwritten note is an internal worksheet, clearly intended to organise the putting online of a site dedicated to the Hydraulic Expert Notebooks.

The list of the six Notebooks

The page lists the six notebooks to be added 'to the site' p. 8:

p. 8

The 'upcoming' mentions are underlined in red, signalling their priority or status to be monitored in the publication tracking.

Instruction on the 'Steering' section

The note asks to 'add in the Steering section' an entry dated 1972, titled 'Diravi steering on the SD', with a reference to 'page 8' p. 8. The word 'Steering' and 'page 8' are circled in red, and the sentence is underlined with a black wavy line — marks of emphasis on this specific task.

Download instruction

Finally, the note specifies to 'download into: Hydraulic Expert Notebooks' the notebooks no. 1 and no. 5 p. 8, linked by a diagonal line in black ink.

Context

The Hydraulic Expert Notebooks evoke an educational enterprise by Citroën intended to transmit knowledge of the hydraulic and hydro-pneumatic systems developed notably under the impetus of Paul Magès.

The 'SD' and the mention '1972' likely refer, in the historical context of Citroën, to the SM — a model equipped with Diravi steering, a technical system linked to the brand's innovations in the 1970s. This identification is however not confirmed by the document itself: 'SD' could also be an abbreviation specific to internal vocabulary, not explained here.

Archivist's perspective

This document is not a technical piece in itself, but an editorial management document: it sheds light on how the Expert Notebooks were organised and distributed, probably within the framework of a site or an internal training base at Citroën or a successor structure (CIFC).

The red annotations and the wavy line suggest a review or a follow-up of tasks to be accomplished rather than a static document — it is a trace of living work.

It is probable that this note is directly linked to the Presentation of the 'Hydraulic Expert Notebooks' training (CIFC), as well as to the various Hydraulic Quizzes that accompanied each notebook. The mention of 'Diravi steering' also finds a technical echo in the notebook excerpt on the Diravi steering system.

For lack of an explicit date on the note itself, it remains undated; only the mention '1972' concerns the content to be added, not the writing of the note.