Arrow Development

Arrow Development was an <a href="/facts/Amusement_park_ride/b7v2FTj0">amusement park ride</a> and <a href="/facts/Roller_coaster/Khc6UWax">roller coaster</a> design and manufacturing company, incorporated in <a href="/facts/California/zLW2vdQJ">California</a> on November 16, 1945, and based in <a href="/facts/Mountain_View%2c_California/dm29hKlV">Mountain View</a>. It was founded by Angus "Andy" Anderson, Karl Bacon, William Hardiman and Edgar Morgan.: 158  Originally located at 243 Moffett Boulevard, it moved to a larger facility at 1555 Plymouth Street after Walt Disney Productions purchased one third of the business in 1960.: 775  Arrow also had offices at 820 Huff Avenue.
By 1956, then secretary Bill Hardiman and Angus Anderson, then vice president, had sold their interests in Arrow to <a href="/facts/Wharton_School/0Ej6fE1G">Wharton</a> graduate Walter Schulze, who then became Arrow's secretary-treasurer and vice president. Schulze and his wife had provided accounting services for several small companies in the Bay Area, including Duro-Bond Bearing, which is where he likely heard of Arrow. Schulze left Arrow after its sale to <a href="/facts/Rio_Grande_Industries/pG93JBNn">Rio Grande Industries</a>. In 1979, Arrow listed over a dozen types of rides in their catalog, including 15 corkscrews, five looping coasters, 12 runaway mine trains, 43 flume rides, and 77 automotive rides, for a total of more than 200 rides installed at nearly 100 locations around the world.
Huss Trading Corporation purchased Arrow Development in 1981, but the combined Arrow-Huss went bankrupt in 1984. The similarly named <a href="/facts/Arrow_Dynamics/b53SUQQq">Arrow Dynamics</a>, eventual successor to Arrow Development, was incorporated in Delaware on January 10, 1986 by Ron Toomer, Otis Hughes, David Klomp, Ray Crandall and Brent Meikle.

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