An Ariel VB 600cc with a sidecar Product:Fine art poster 'The industrious 'prentice performing the

'The industrious 'prentice performing the duty of a christian'

model battle is taking place on the Serpentine

Little Trinity Lane

Vue d'Optique showing the Custom House and boats on the River Thames

April 1975

An Ariel VB 600cc with a sidecar Product:Fine art poster 'The industrious 'prentice performing theAn 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.