The Ceirano & me

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Regardless of how long they might have been involved with Vintage cars, there are still an awful lot of enthusiasts who’ve never heard of Ceirano. This, argues one marque devotee, is their misfortune.

Ceirano began as a Turin bicycle manufacturer in the late 19th century, but it wasn’t long before they cottoned on to the rise of the motor car and began building a few straight forward cyclecars and voiturettes, which ended up as prototype FIATs. During a long hiatus, the Ceirano brothers were involved with many other important Italian motor brands but didn’t start making cars under their own name again until 1919.

Nick Sloan first laid his eyes on a 1925Tipo S 150 in 1954, when it was sitting forlorn in a Newcastle coach operator’s yard with a cracked engine block and head. He began reviving it, fuelled by burning enthusiasm despite the non-availability of parts. Although he had top art with it in order to complete his National Service, he bought it back as soon as he could and it remained his faithful companion until the 1990s, when it was sold after an accident. Realising he couldn’t live without a Ceirano, he has recently restored another example.

Nick Sloan enlightens us as to the charms of the Ceirano in the August issue of The Automobile, available now.

Words by Zack Stiling. Photographs by Nick Sloan.

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