This may have had some influence on the development of the armet. It was designed by Armet & Davis and built in 1958. The earliest surviving armet dates to 1420 and was made in Milan. The Gurkha was developed in 2005 by Armet Armored Vehicles. In 1947, Davis and Armet opened their architectural firm, Armet & Davis. "Friendship", Armet, master, arrived at Port Louis, Mauritius, on 5 August 1818 from Sumatra. The high-quality English Greenwich armours often included this type of armet from c. 1525. Armet & Davis essentially defined the Googie architecture genre in the post-war period. Armet Francis was born in St Elizabeth, in rural Jamaica in 1945. The armet is a type of helmet which was developed in the 15th century. Armet Francis (born in 1945) is a Jamaican-born photographer and publisher who lives in London.