Editing Arrow Development (section)

{{short description|Amusement park ride designer and manufacturer}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2014}}
{{Infobox company 
| name  = Arrow Development
| logo  = 
| fate          = Sold to Huss Maschinenfabrik (1981)
| successors    = [[HUSS Park Attractions|Arrow-Huss]]<br/>[[Arrow Dynamics]]<br/>[[S&S Worldwide|S&S Power]]
| foundation    = 1945
| founders      = Karl Bacon<br/>Ed Morgan<br/>Bill Hardiman<br/>Angus Anderson
| defunct       = 1981
| location      = [[Mountain View, California]], US
| industry      = Amusement Rides
| key_people    = Angus Anderson<br/>Karl Bacon<br/>Bill Hardiman<br/>Ed Morgan<br/>Walter Schulze<br/>[[Ron Toomer]]
| products      = [[Roller Coaster]]s, [[Log flume (ride)|Log Flumes]], Auto Rides
| num_employees = 270
}}

'''Arrow Development''' was an [[amusement park ride]] and [[roller coaster]] design and manufacturing company, incorporated in [[California]] on November 16, 1945,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.californiacompanieslist.com/arrow-development-co-f5nx/|title=ARROW DEVELOPMENT CO.|website=www.californiacompanieslist.com|access-date=January 30, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171107011823/http://www.californiacompanieslist.com/arrow-development-co-f5nx/|archive-date=November 7, 2017|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref> and based in [[Mountain View, California|Mountain View]]. It was founded by Angus "Andy" Anderson, Karl Bacon, William Hardiman and Edgar Morgan.<ref name="Roller Coasters, Flumes and Flying Saucers">{{cite book|last=Reynolds|first=Robert|title=Roller Coasters, Flumes and Flying Saucers|year=1999|publisher=Northern Lights Pub|isbn=9780965735353}}</ref>{{rp|158}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://brian1.engineer.net/articles/history_of_Arrow_Development.php |title=The History of Arrow Development |publisher=Engineer.net |date=October 2009 |access-date=January 9, 2014 |first=Eric |last=Tavenier |author2=Moyer, Carolyn Anderson}}</ref> Originally located at 243 Moffett Boulevard,<ref name="Arrow Development- A forgotten piece of Mountain View's past">{{cite news|last=Perry|first=Nick|title=Arrow Development- A forgotten piece of Mountain View's past|url=http://www.mv-voice.com/morgue/2002/2002_07_26.history726.html|access-date=January 9, 2014|newspaper=Mountain View Voice|date=July 26, 2002}}</ref> it moved to a larger facility at 1555 Plymouth Street<ref name="Arrow Development- A forgotten piece of Mountain View's past" /> after Walt Disney Productions purchased one third of the business in 1960.<ref name="Roller Coasters, Flumes and Flying Saucers" />{{rp|775}}<ref>{{cite web |author=Poison Quill |url=http://www.talesofthesevenseas.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=1315 |title=Arrow Development, Disney and the Disneyland POTC Ride |publisher=Tales of the Seven Seas |date=July 18, 2008 |access-date=January 9, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131207054324/http://www.talesofthesevenseas.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=1315 |archive-date=December 7, 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Arrow also had offices at 820 Huff Avenue.

By 1956, then secretary Bill Hardiman<ref>R. L. Polk Santa Clara County CA Directory, 1949-50</ref> and Angus Anderson, then vice president,<ref name="MV1954">R. L. Polk U.S. Cities Directory for Mountain View, CA 1954</ref> had sold their interests in Arrow to [[Wharton School|Wharton]] 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 [[Rio Grande Industries]].<ref>{{cite news |newspaper=San Jose Mercury News |title=Obituary: Pauline Schultze |date=October 18, 1993}}</ref> 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 [[Arrow Dynamics]], 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.<ref>State of Utah Division of Corporations and Commercial Code Database - Articles of Incorporation #131482</ref>