The Place de la Concorde in Paris, 1956 The consumer revolution of the late 1950s brought a rapid increase in the number of privately owned automobiles across western Europe. Major European cities began to experience one of the more unfortunate but increasingly common aspects of postwar life: the traffic jam. Contemporary advertisements, like this 1952 French ad for the Dyna Panhard Junior 130 Sprint, played up the youthful, sporty aspects of the new auto-
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