Ann: Management Changes, page-173

Oh goodness. Ed Mead in charge! One of the old guard from when ARV was a complete laughing stock. In actual fact, as the company is back to being a laughing stock, Mead should feel very at home. Bramwell has never done all that much, he was never the guy to make ARV into a highly profitable enterprise.

I would now see it as odds-on that the company is bought by a professional outfit, where the assets will finally be taken advantage of and the current chairman will be able to hold his head up as having made shrewd and commercially savvy decisions.