An Ariel VB 600cc with a sidecar Product:Canvas 'Sir William Farmer

'Sir William Farmer

New Musical Express pop concert at Empire Pool Wembley 11th April 1965

A scene in a club room

'Near my House'

An Ariel VB 600cc with a sidecar Product:Canvas 'Sir William FarmerAn 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.