JCB (company) as a generic description for mechanical diggers and excavators and now appears in the "Oxford English Dictionary", although it is still held as a trademark. JCB was founded by Joseph Cyril Bamford in October 1945 in Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, England. He rented a lock-up garage . In it, using a welding set which he bought second-hand for £1 from English Electric, he made his first vehicle, a tipping trailer from war-surplus materials. The trailer's sides and floor were made from steel sheet that had been part of air raid shelters. On the same day as his son Anthony was born, he
Ryan Bamford and strength and conditioning, as well as all intercollegiate scheduling, event management and postseason championships for the 35-sport department. Bamford has served on a number of NCAA and Ivy League committees, including four years on the NCAA Division I Women's Lacrosse Committee, which he chaired from 2009 to 2010. As part of the administration at Yale, Bamford was responsible for successful new parking regulations for annual Harvard-Yale football rivalry game, as well as dealing with student pranks associated with the rivalry. As senior associate director of athletics at Georgia Tech from 2011-2015, Bamford had direct oversight of all internal operations