The ex Farman Panhard of Mr. Georges Leys?

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We received a photo from Richard Rodier asking: "Who can identify this car owned by a member of our family around 1900? Mr Leys was was a great amateur of cars, planes and gas balloons around 1900 and was a friend of Henri and Maurice Farman. The photo was taken at Mr. Leys' Chateau d'Alosse, near Orleans." 

First of all we saw some similarity with the 1902 Panhard with Farman at the wheel as depricted on the Michelin Building in London. Next we found a near full match with the Paris-Madrid 1903 Panhard. More than that, the man in the photo looks like Henri Farman. Both in pictures of the dramatic Madrid race and in the 1903 Gordon-Bennett in Ireland we see the car with straight wings, while in the picture above we see curved wings. It will be quite interesting to date the picture more precisely. Did Mr. George Leys own the Gordon Bennett car in slightly more 'roadgoing' version. Or is it another car? 

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