What links this Darracq to the Martin-Lethimonnier?

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Remember this article? It led us to the picture seen here, which is linked to one of the photos in the earlier article and seen here too. One is captioned as a Martin-Lethimonnier for the Criterium de France race which we found out more about in the earlier posting. But the other picture is an interesting one also. It is captioned as a Darracq Targa Florio car. There were two Darracq cars entered in the 1907 Targa Florio (more here), one driven by René Hanriot and one by Louis Wagner. This has to be one of those two. Which one we don’t know.

But now over to the link between these two very different pictures with very different cars on them. When you look closely you may notice that the building in the background is the same. That’s what links these two cars together. But what exactly is this missing link then? Was there perhaps a garage or a tuner who prepared these cars for racing? Or were both vehicles owned by one and the same person / entrant? The people seen in the Darracq seem different to the ones in the Criterium de France cars. Please share your knowledge.

Words by Jeroen Booij. Pictures from the archive.

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