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Some landmark machines in the history of JCB

22 Oct 15 Okay, I hear you. It’s lovely all these photos of JCB factories and royals and stuff, but what you want is machines through the years. I get it. Here they are.

Bamfords and their people

22 Oct 15 Like any good business, the history of JCB is as much a history of its people as of its products. This includes the three generations of Bamfords: Joe, son Anthony and grandson Jo, who is now surely destined to take over the family business before much longer.

"I declare this digger..."

21 Oct 15 You may have heard that JCB turns 70 this week. Cue lots of flag waving, and we’re happy to join in. They like a good flag waving at JCB, and so do we. As one of the original Great British Success Stories® few companies can be more reliably depended upon to host an official visit from royalty and VIPs.

JCB around the world

21 Oct 15 From humble beginnings JCB soon grew into a company with export success, followed by international distribution channels and finally manufacturing operations on several continents.

JCB: the early years

21 Oct 15 This, I am sure regular readers will not need telling, is where the JCB story begins. Seventy years ago Joseph Cyril Bamford made a tipping trailer from war time scrap.

Ducon's Doosan doesn't disappoint

20 Oct 15 Here is the first Doosan DL450-5 wheeled loader in the Republic of Ireland. It was supplied by dealer Adare Machinery to Ducon Concrete, based in Kanturk in County Cork.

West African approval for Zaxis-3 excavators

20 Oct 15 This 35-tonne Hitachi Zaxis-3 digger is being operated by Opoku Agyemang Clement in the Arigu Rock quarry, near Tamale in northern Ghana. And he likes it. A lot.

Flooring contractor chooses Bobcat laser grader

8 Oct 15 Wrexham-based concrete flooring specialist Knights Construction has a new Bobcat T770 compact tracked loader with some fancy attachments, including laser grader, six-way dozer blade, scarifier, and combination bucket and pallet forks.

Hydrema 922D trucks for GDL

1 Oct 15 Hydrema UK has supplied Scottish specialist contractor Ground Developments Limited with a pair of 922D 6x6 chassis cabs fitted with bespoke lime spreading bodies from Streumaster.

Waste firm stands by Hyundai

30 Sep 15 There's a waste firm in Derbyshire that will buy nothing but Hyundai equipment and has recently added a new loader and excavator.

Caterpillar tug-o-war challenge

24 Sep 15 In the latest of Caterpillar’s ‘Built for It’ trials, Europe's reigning Strongest Man, Hafthor ‘Thor’ Bjornsson, hams it up for a game of tug-o-war against a Cat D10T tractor in Iceland.

Dutch debut for new Kobelco

22 Sep 15 Europe’s first Kobelco Generation 10 excavator is now at work on site in the Netherlands.

Hitachi excavators on the M3

18 Sep 15 Ten Hitachi short-tail swing excavators have been working on the M3 smart motorway project in Hampshire and Surrey.

First Hyundai HX300 starts work in Manchester

16 Sep 15 Manchester’s Excel Excavations has taken delivery of the first Hyundai HX300 L excavator in the UK.

3CX Compact, the Movie

8 Sep 15 Here's 3CX Compact - The Movie. Enjoy!

JCB goes compact with 3CX variant

8 Sep 15 You may have read the news about JCB’s new 3CX Compact backhoe loader. We’ve more details and publicity photos here.

Stafford firm takes first EC140E

8 Sep 15 Following its launch at this year’s Plantworx exhibition in June, the first fourteen-tonne Volvo EC140 E series machine has been delivered to Stafford-based LRD Plant Hire Ltd.

Hitachi high-reach shows its Pedigree [with video]

26 Aug 15 The UK’s first Hitachi ZX350LC-5 high-reach demolition excavator has shown it’s got the right stuff pulling down an office block at a Wolverhampton brewery.

Compact Loadall is 'ab fab' says house-builder

20 Aug 15 The new 516-40 Loadall, JCB’s smallest telehandler, is going down well with a Cotswolds house-builder, the manufacturer reports.

Rubble Master proves a game changer for demolition firm

19 Aug 15 Changes in how demolition contractors have to dispose of waste has prompted Norfolk-based Anglian Demolition & Asbestos to invest in a mobile crushing machine.

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