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Tracing history

Last month, I promised to let you know how I got on with tracing a service history for the ex-government Citroën C5 estate that I’d just bought. And it’s gone rather well.

As with any kind of research project, the starting point is what you know already. In the C5s case that wasn’t a lot; the V5C listed two owners. The ‘current’ name at

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