A special installation in honour of JCB’s 80 th birthday is drawing a crowd to the manufacturer’s headquarters in Staffordshire, England. At the lakeside HQ, an eight-tonne JCB 3CX Sitemaster backhoe ...

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 ...