Beer is important (UPDATE III: Bignan!)

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In the old days almost every town in Belgium had its own brewery. This means beer is important to Belgians and so are festivities. For example the small Belgian villages Landegem and Nevele recently celebrated that 120 years ago their favourite brewer, Aimé Meiresonne was born. Aimé took over the steam brewery that was founded by his father in 1871 and many people of Landegem and Nevele have worked in the brewery over the years. Later on it became part of the brewery group Artois although the name Meiresonne completely disappeared in the 1970s. The photo was taken during a courtesy visit of the Meiresonne family to fellow-brewer Van Roy near Aalst. The beer truck on the left is a Berna, but we do not know the make of the two cars in front. Can you tell? And did you notice the dog? Imagine it slipping and making enormous scratches on the precious paint…
(photos courtesy Etienne Van De Walle and Nico Claerhout)

Update III by Pascal Rousselle: “The two cars on the photo are clearly two Bignan type 132 C from 1919 to 1922. They have got a 3-liter motor. The identification can be done by the fact that the radiator is flat as compared tot the Simson Supra and there is no brake on the front axle.
Update II by Marc Fellman: “It looks to me as though the radiator mascots in the mystery photo are "storks" which also happen to be the symbol of the Bignan marque.”
Several updates came in on these beautiful cars of which most concentrate on two makes: Jean Claude Poisson, Detlef Kayser, Anders Svenfelt and Marc Fellman say it’s a Bignan, probably the 2 liters from circa 1923-1925, but Ingo Jost, Josef Kubišta and Bart Oosterling all agree on the German Simson Supra Typ 8/40 SO Tourer, produced from 1925-1929.

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