Bicycles
Unknown Artist
Meteor Works Bicycle Poster
From the year of its foundation,1877, The Rover Company's story provides an interesting and romantic chapter in the history of transport. The seeds of this great enterprise were sown by John Kemp Starley and William Sutton when they joined in partnership - Trading as 'Starley and Sutton' - to manufacture pennyfarthing cycles and tricycles in the lower floor of one of the groups of buildings at West Orchard, Coventry, which subsequently for many years formed The Meteor Works.