Have Armoury demolition entered administration?

[Joes1989]

Just been reading this months Earthmovers and whilst flicking through the pages i see an auction advert for alot of Armoury Demo's kit in there......Its Armoury Demolition auction as ordered by there administrators.....

Is this just to keep costs down or are they really struggling?

They have there Zaxis 870 UHDin there along with
2x Zaxis 470LCH's
2x 09 EC360C's
2x 08 EC360CL's
3x 08 Zaxis 225USRLC-3
1x 07 Zaxis 130LC
1x 06 Zaxis 70LC
and a

ZW170-3 rubber duck along with numerous other bits of kit......

I havent heard anything about this so im just curious

Cheers

Joe

[jcb4cx]

more like finished ,they are two buildings partly demoed in basingstoke after they had to pull out ,the longreach hitachi was there
hoped to get some pictures and then it was gone ,did next to nothing workwise ,just partly did the top floor

http://www.birminghampost.net/birmingham-business/birmingham-business-news/other-uk-business/2011/03/24/armoury-demolition-creditors-told-what-payouts-to-expect-65233-28392685/

[Joes1989]

Thats worrying....if a firm thats fairly well established can go under.....shame they have some seriously nice kit too........

[Jack]

Yes, Shame for them to have gone. No shortage of demolition comanys though, many to compete with.

Theres Armac, DSM, Colemans, Wring, Lee group, 777 and loads more that competed for the same type of work. Shame.

[Joes1989]

Yeh......East Midlands Demolition seem to be getting more and more work around here!

DSM must have a job somewhere up north....i was overtaken by 2 of their Astra vans on the M1 the other night!
Going somewhere in a hurry too haha

[Jack]

Im glad to see that Armac ( Love the livery!) and DSM are still going strong, cant beat a good Brummie demo companys No offence to colemans, there just not my cup-o-tea!!!

[Joes1989]

I have to say i do like Armac.....but i liked Armoury the most due to thae fact they had a lot of cool Hitachi equipment! haha

[jcbjs220]

I knew that armoury were having problems, didnt realise it was that bad thopugh. Had a call off one of their guys october last year as was going for a job there operating, but then when i spoke to him a few weeks later he said that they had lost a contract and it put them in an awkward position. Didn't think it would be the dimise of them though! Shame though, as would have loved to have finally got the chance to learn the ropes! Hey ho, one day............. lol

[Joes1989]

Didnt Armoury take down JCB's old tracked and Wheeled excavator build facility?

[jcbjs220]

yeah thats right joe, it was heavy products in uttoxeter. used a js330 demo rig, a 460xd, a 22xd and a 456. If im right all the machines were bought for the contract except for the 460 which was JCBs demo machine as JCB terms were that only JCB equipment could be used.