JCB has manufactured its 750,000th backhoe loader. It was produced in Rocester, Staffordshire, U.K., the same location where the first JCB backhoe was manufactured almost 70 years ago. In 1953, ...

1940s: Company founded by Joseph Cyril Bamford with the creation of the first tipping trailer. 1950s: Invents the first backhoe loader. Moves to Rocester, England, becomes a registered company. 1960s: ...

JCB has been awarded a contract to supply the U.S. military with a fleet of specialized high-speed excavators over the next eight years in a deal worth up to $269 million (£217 million). The deal ...

Both JCB and its long-time chairman, Lord Anthony Bamford, are celebrating their 70th birthday this year — so it with apt timing that the British machinery brand recently decided to launch its latest ...

JCB was founded on October 23rd, 1945, by the late Joseph Cyril Bamford in a tiny lock-up garage in the Staffordshire market town of Uttoxeter in the UK. It was the same day as his son Anthony, now ...

One of the United Kingdom’s great companies JCB celebrates its 80th anniversary in 2025. It’s a company built on innovation like so many others that owns much of its success to the invention of the ...

In the latest in our series on British farm machinery makers, Michael Williams talks to tractor and handler maker JCB Bamford used to be one of Britain’s biggest and best-known farm machinery ...