This is an extract from "The Burns Book" by Paul Day (out of print according to Amazon)

In 1969, Ivor Arbiter invited Jim Burns to join the Dallas Arbiter organisation, to help develop a new range of guitars to be marketed under the 'Hayman' banner. He accepted and accordingly joined forces with Bob Pearson, an ex-Vox employee. Jim had already formulated some ideas for a new design, as had Bob Pearson, who had also been working on a perspex-body guitar with Beatle, John Lennon. The resultant combination of Jim and Bob's ideas produced a range of instruments with several innovative features and distinctive appearance. The guitar styling, suggestive of a Burns 'Vista Sonic' crossed with a Fender 'Telecaster', was still very 'British'. The designs incorporated many characteristics of the earlier Burns models, so retaining a definite 'family likeness'. In addition, the woodwork was by Jack Golder, with truss-rod design by Norman Holder. Re-An supplied the fittings while the finish was by Derek Adams, these all being links with the previous Burns and Baldwin instruments. The 'Hayman' range comprised the following four models:

1. The '1010' Guitar (1970-73)
   Scale Length: 25½", 21 frets.
   Pick-Ups: 3, 'Super Flux' type.
   Controls: 1 Volume, 1 Tone, 1 3-way Select.
   Finish etc.: Metallic Ivory, Burgundy or Gold;
       Maple Fingerboard.
   Retail Price: £164.
   Variations: Early bodies were of Honduras mahogany, later sycamore or obeche. Other finishes later available. Remarks: This was a good quality guitar with a sound to match, circuitry similar to that of a Fender 'Stratocaster', the 3-way selector giving one pick-up per setting. Grover machine heads were fitted as standard. This model proved to be a popular instrument, being aimed at a similar market to earlier Burns. Quite a number were produced and examples are still common today.
   

2. The '2020' Guitar (1970-73)
   Scale Length: 25½", 21 frets.
   Pick-Ups: 2, 'Super Flux' type.
   Controls: 2 Volume, 2 Tone, 1 3-way Select.
   Finish etc.: Natural Rosewood or Sycamore;
       Ebonised Maple Fingerboard.
   Retail Price: £195.
   Variations: Other finishes later available.
   Remarks: Based on a Jim Burns design, this model had a semi-acoustic mahogany body, finished in a matched rosewood or sycamore veneer, with bound edges and 'f' holes. The head-face was ebonised to match the fingerboard. This is a very distinctive instrument, the attractive appearance befitting its position as the 'top-of-the-line' model. Examples are now not as common as others of the range.
   

3. The '3030' Guitar. (1971-73)
   Scale Length: 25½", 21 frets.
   Pick-Ups: 2, 'Superflux' type.
   Controls: 1 Volume, 1 Tone, 1 3-way Select.
   Finish etc.: As the '1010' model.
   Retail Price: £160.
   Variations: Other finishes later available.
   Remarks: This model appeared slightly later, and was a 'simplified' version of the '1010', featuring only 2 pick-ups and conventional circuitry. The body was of obeche while other fittings matched those of the '1010' model. Again, this was a popular instrument and many were produced, thus examples are still to be found today.
   

4. The '4040' Bass. (1971-73)
   Scale Length: 34", 20 frets.
   Pick-Ups: 2, 'Superflux' Double-pole, staggered Bass type.
   Controls: 1 Volume, 1 Tone, 1 3-way Select.
   Finish etc.: As '1010' model guitar.
   Retail Price: £175.
   Variations: Other finishes later available.
   Remarks: This model was based on a design by Bob Pearson. The body was of obeche, with 'bolt-on' neck, fitted with Fender-style machine heads. The double-pole, staggered/split pick-ups were also Fender influenced. This was the only bass in the Hayman range and proved quite popular, although not to the same degree as the guitar models and examples are correspondingly rarer.
   

All four models were worthy successors to previous Burns instruments, if lacking a little of their predecessor's 'flair' and 'character'. The Hayman range can certainly be classed as 'Burns by another name'.
The talented partnership of Jim Burns and Bob Pearson came to an end in September 1971, when Jim decided to leave the Dallas Arbiter company. Bob Pearson continued to develop new ideas and additions to the range, and later versions of the original four models featured the new Re-An humbucker type pick-ups.
However, when Hayman came to an untimely end, Bob joined Jack Golder and Norman Holder, who, left 'high and dry' by the Dallas Arbiter collapse, had decided to 'soldier on' and produce their own 'Shergold' instruments, see Chapter 14.

Advert for Hayman 1010	Illustration of Hayman 2020

See also the page on Shergold from the same book, and scans of original Dealer sheets from Hayman.
Many thanks to Andy J for the original scans.

Text and images are Copyright © of Paul Day.
Reproduced here by kind permission of Paul Day and Peter Robinson, PP Publishing.