JCB

Joseph Cyril Bamford started the company in a rented garage in Uttoxeter in October 1945, building a tipping trailer from war-surplus steel. It moved to an old cheese factory in Rocester in 1950, began painting its machines yellow a year later, and built its first backhoe loader in 1953.

The name JCB is often used in Britain as a general word for a digger, and it appears in the Oxford English Dictionary. Machines are made in Britain, India, the United States, Brazil and China.