ABSTRACT

J C Bamford UCB) started in a lock-up garage in Uttoxeter in 1945 when Joseph Cyril Bamford set about creating the very first JCB product, a tipping trailer. Over 50 years later, JCB now has seven factories and 3,400 employees building over 22,000 machines per year in nine different product ranges. With exports accounting for 70% of sales, JCB is a clear technological and market leader in many of the 140 countries world-wide to which it sells.