Il mistero di un mostro francese

This message contains a warning, or better two warnings. The first one is to read the previous posts, because I already mentioned in the first post that the license number was 6634-X, which can be clearly read on one of the other pictures in my archive.
The second one is of an even more serious nature, because the ‘better’ picture seems to be an AI enhancement. That should have been mentioned, so why isn’t it? Comparing the old picture with the ‘better’ one is confusing if not devastative for the original. The most intriguing difference is the appearance of ?louvres on the bonnet side. Where do they come from? No sign of these on the original pictures! Apart from this many other details are brushed away, or made up. Spokes are supposed to be straight, but have changed into a kind of spaghetti mass; the exit location of the tube coming out of the bonnet is altered and the spherical button of one of the levers has been changed into something amorphic. The first 6 of the license number, still vaguely distinguishable on the original, has completely disappeared on the enhanced image. Also a round emblem appears on top of the radiator shell, where in fact an oval emblem is present. It even gives the impression of text and moreover the location clearly is not in the centre. So my second warning is: do not use AI to enhance old, detoriated photographs. If the results are mixed up with the originals, we (i.e. we historians!) are lost.

Hello. Here is a clearer version of the photo. The number plate appears to end in ‘Y’, which corresponds to the Rouen/Versailles district, assigned from 1 October 1901 to 16 May 1902. That seems to me to be quite an early date for the Suère brand, which was founded in 1905.

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bonjour. Voici une amélioration de la photo. L'immatriculation semble se terminer par Y ce qui correspond à l'arrondissement de Rouen / Versailles attribué du 01/10/1901 au 16/05/1902. Cela me semble une datation bien ancienne pour la marque Suère crée en 1905.

I found this photo on my HDD of a certain Mme Morel on board of the 1914 Suere that took part in that year´s Grand Prix de la A.C.F.

This impressive racer is a circa 1914 Suère. Not much is known of its history, but the uploaded photo shows a similar racer in a 1914 competition at the Meeting of Cabourg (source: La Vie au Grand Air). That car has a trading plate, but I have some other photos in my archive indicating that the license plate on the mystery car is 6634-X, which was issued in 1917. This seems a bit late, but possibly the car was acquired by the man whose name was attached to these photos, André Morel.