| 1989 |
ARM visit the Ford factory at Basildon during the development, testing, manufacture and supply of hitches to be fitted in the factory by
the Ford Tractor Company.
The Hawkes Green factory was sold and the manufacturing activity was
downsized to the Rydal Farm Factory. ARM Productions ceased to trade.
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ARM trial vertical downflow reed beds at Rugeley and Drointon. Vertical
downflow reed beds had been developed in Germany and achieve greater
oxygen transfer and therefore greater contaminant removal than
horizontal flow. The two systems were trialled and monitored by ADAS
and PhD students from the School of Civil Engineering of Birmingham
University.
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| 1988 |
 The Armaplate was designed and developed to guide trailer and caravan
drawbars on to car ball hooks without damaging the car. This set-up is
now a common sight on towing cars.
ARM supply hitches to the Renault factory at Le Mans.
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Trials indicate that horizontal flow reed beds are only capable of
removing small amounts of contaminants from relatively high strength
effluent such as agricultural waste water. Concentrations could not be
reduced to levels which would comply with the regulators’ requirements
for discharge into water courses without pretreatment.
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1987
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ARM supply hitches to the UK importers of Fiat and
Same tractors.
ARM manufacture Handy ARMs - a tool box and vice which
could be attached to a three point linkage or to the front of a
tractor.
The ARMatic was jointly developed by ARM and Elco to enable the rapid
attachment of P.T.O powered implements to tractors. The ARMatic was
exhibited at the Paris Agricultural Show and won a Silver Medal Award
for the best new invention.
ARM gained a franchise to sell and erect pre-formed lightweight industrial buildings from Ayrshire Metals Ltd
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ARM trial a horizontal flow reed bed on a farm at Drointon to treat dirty water run-off from the milking yard and parlour.
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| 1986 |
ARM and E. L. Cooper (Elco) worked together to develop a range of
farmstead equipment including a buck-rake, silage grab and a multiframe
to which a number of attachments such as pallet forks could be attached
quickly and easily.
ARM made many trips to Neuss in Germany during the final prototype testing and development stages of the hitch to fit the Magnum range of tractors.
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ARM decide to trial reed beds for the treatment of agricultural waste waters and if successful a product could be developed which would be complementary to the farm building activity.
A horizontal flow reed bed was constructed near the company’s office at
Rugeley. Trials were carried out under supervision from their
associates at Birmingham University using dilute pig slurry.
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| 1985 |
ARM converted the farmstead buildings at Rydal Farm into an office
block. The conversion was awarded a commendation by the Country
Landowners Association.
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| 1984 |
ARM design of the Ammobox, designed to improve the
palatability of straw by treating it with NH4OH . The Ammobox received
an Industrial Achievement Award.
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1983
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 Throughout the early 1980s the company designed and manufactured
hitches for many compact tractors such as Massey Ferguson, Iseki,
Kubota as well as many larger tractors such as Lamborghini, Fendt,
Deutz, Belarus from Russia, Hurlimann from Switzerland, IMT from
Yugoslavia, Zetor from Czechoslovakia and Steyr from Austria.
ARM also supplied the aftermarket for hitches and sold thousands of them to John Deere tractor dealerships
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| 1981 |
The Progress Drive property was sold and the manufacturing activity was
moved into a new custom built unit at Hawkes Green, Cannock.
Castellan Eng Ltd changed its name to ARM Productions Ltd. Alfred Lyons and Sons Ltd changed its name to ARM Buildings Ltd.
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1980
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ARM supply hitches to David Brown
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