What is it? Quiz #486

Avion Voisin

This lovely big saloon is a Suère from about 1925 (maybe a Type D). Suère cars were built in France between 1909 and 1931, before that the company produced 'Velox' engines (not to be confused with the earlier Velox Motor Co of England, Heine-Velox, or any number of old Vauxhalls). When they started producing cars they were powered by Ballot engines.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Su%C3%A8re
https://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/2007-35/puzzle-485-solved!-suere-type-d-berline-landaulet/msg20504/#msg20504
http://www.allcarindex.com/main-index/car-make-details/France-Suere/

1925 Suère Type D Berline Landaulette. License plate 112 UG 75. The quiz car can be seen at the Musée Automobile de Reims-Champagne and was part of the Philippe Charboneaux collection that started the museum 1985.
J. Suere started manufacturing Velox engines in Paris, adding automobiles in 1909, continuing small volume production until 1931.
http://www.musee-automobile-reims-champagne.com/en
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Su%C3%A8re

Dear prewarcar-team,
here my solution...

Suère D from 1926. Automobiles J. Suère started in 1905 in Daumesnil/Paris manufacturing engines branded under the "Velox" name.
In 1909 the production of cars with Ballot-1 cyl.engines was started, using the name Suère. Suère disappeared around 1930/1931 from the market.
At Paris Motor Show in 1922 the model „D“, with a 20 hp, 4cyl.sv-inline-engine with 1.843 cc (corresponding to a 10CV) and 4 gears was presented, available over the years in bare chassis form, as Torpedo, as Landaulet, as truck and as seen here as Conduite interieure (=Saloon) with 1.5 m width, 3.85 m length and wheelbase 2.86 m.

Best regards from the Nahe-valley!
Fritz

Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Su%C3%A8re
https://encheres.catawiki.eu/kavels/1892089-suere-torpedo-cabriolet-1924
http://www.antiqbrocdelatour.com/Les-collections/voitures-anciennes/Suere%20C,%20voiture%20routi%C3%A8re%20de%201919-id5496.html

This car is a 1928 Avions-Voisin, produced by an aviation pioneer, Gabriel B. Voisin. The car had a Knight-sleeve engine and it was on a monocoque chassis. My sources are numerous Voisin car pictures in my personal file and also comments on Wikipedia.

This is a 1925 Suère Type D Landaulet. Suère of Paris started car production in 1909 after already having produced Velox engines. The 10 CV puzzle car is part of the Musée Automobile Reims Champagne. This very conservative model was presented in 1921 and built until 1930, the end of Suère's production. Propelled by a Ballot four-cylinder 1872 cc engine of 22 hp, it reached 80 kph. Its price in 1925 was 25,000 Francs. Suère made the news, when the Suère Spèciale appeared at the 1926 Arpajon record week, powered by a 25-litre Lorraine-Dietrich V12 aero engine.

Sources:
Automobilia Special No. 72 S, (Toutes les Voitures Francaises 1975 & 1925) and No. 88 (1976 & 1926)
David Burgess-Wise: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of the World's Automobiles
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suère

it is a Chagneau Brasier TD4

This is a Suere model D from 1925.

I saw this car in person last summer in a car museum in Reims (France). I immediatley recognised the car when I saw the picture.

Beste Regards
Kenzo Sarrazyn