Starley Brothers and Westwood Manufacturing Co
of Coventry and Birmingham
1896 Starley Brothers was merged with the Westwood Manufacturing Co to form this business
1896/7 Directory: Listed under cycles. More details. Also shown under Coventry
1896 The Ariel name appeared again in 1896, this time on motorised transport after the Starley Brothers company amalgamated with Westwood Manufacturing Co. The first Ariel vehicle was a tricycle that used a 2.25 hp De Dion engine mounted at the rear. More tricycles were produced and quadricycles were added in 1901 as Ariel then moved into car production.
1896 Starley Brothers and Westwood Manufacturing Co established at the St George's Engineering Co
1897 Had a factory in Fleet Street, Coventry to produce cycles and opened a new component factory at Adderley Park
1897 Possibly sold the Ariel motorcycle business to Cycle Components Manufacturing Co.
1900 Facing bankruptcy they closed both works
See Also
Sources of Information
- Birmingham’s Industrial Heritage by Ray Shill. Published by Sutton Publishing 2002. ISBN 0-7509-2593-0
- Peck's Trades Directory of Birmingham, 1896-97: Cycles