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Ceirano Tipo CS
Car : Ceirano Tipo CS
Year : 1921
Engine :4 cylinders in line
Bore and stroke :75?130 mm
Cylinder capacity : 2166 cc
Gears : 4 forward
Brake horse power : 22
Maximum speed : -
Wheelbase : -
Suspension : front and rear: semi-elliptic leaf- springs
The Ceirano Brothers, Giovanni Battista, Giovanni and Matteo, provide one of the best examples of the initiative and vitality of the early car manufacturers. On October 23, 1898, the limited partnership of Ceirano Giovanni Battista & Company was founded in Turin. One of the most significant names in Italian automobile engineering, Aristide Faccioli, was its technical director. Its first vehicle was powered by a 663 cc twin-cylinder engine.

Known as Welleyes this car was almost immediately rechristened Fiat as it was sold together with equipments and patents for a total of L30,000 to a group of Turinese manufacturers who had just founded Fiat (Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino). Giovanni Battista himself joined Fiat but in 1901 he went into business for himself again and founded Fratelli Ceirano with his brother Matteo.
In 1905 Giovanni Ceirano founded the firm Scat (Societ? Ceirano Automobili Torino). Giovanni left Scat in 1916 when the shares were sold to a Frenchman called Brasier. However, in the postwar period Scat’s production declined to such an extent that Giovanni was able to reunite it with another company, Giovanni Ceirano Fabbrica Automobile S.A., and the two merged in 1923.
Scat had racing successes and in 1914, Ernesto Ceirano, Giovanni’s son , drove a Scat to victory in the Tour of Sicily. Ernesto also won the 1914 Parma-Piaggio di Berceto hill race driving a Scat.
Giovanni Battista had founded a company with his brother in 1903. It was called G.G. Fratelli but it was a short-lived venture and the two brothers split up. Giovanni Battista went on to found Ceirano & Compagnia. He was also responsible for the company called Star (Societ? Torinese Automobili Rapid).