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

King Street

imprisoned in the Tower of London

King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Proclamation parade through Trafalgar Square London

Queen Charlotte and one of the Princesses

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.