Frenchman Leon Thery, winner of the Gordon Bennett Cup in auto racing, 1904. Artist: Unknown

Frenchman Leon Thery, winner of the Gordon Bennett Cup in auto racing, 1904. Artist: Unknown

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Frenchman Leon Thery, winner of the Gordon Bennett Cup in auto racing, 1904. The Gordon Bennett Cup was first held in 1900. The 1904 race was run in the Taunus mountains in Germany and was won by Thery in a Richard-Brasier car. An illustration from Le Petit Journal, 3rd July 1904.

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