An Ariel VB 600cc with a sidecar Size:XL: 100 x 75cm King Street

King Street

besieged by a crowd of people seeking the return of their stolen property

plate III of Industry and Idleness

East view of the new toll house near St James' Church

An Ariel VB 600cc with a sidecar Size:XL: 100 x 75cm King StreetAn Ariel VB 600cc with a sidecar, 1956. Parked outside a cottage, with a smiling woman sitting in the sidecar. The company was founded by James Starley and William Hillman in 1870 to make bicycles and the first patented tensioned wire spoke wheel. Ariel first made a powered tricycle in 1898 using a de Dion engine. They made their first motorized two wheeler in 1901, powered by Kerry engines, selling them in 1902. The company closed in 1970.