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
Bamford Bamford Bamford is a village in the Peak District, Derbyshire, England, close to the River Derwent. To the north-east is Bamford Edge, and to the north-west the Ladybower, Derwent and Howden Reservoirs. At the 2011 census, it had a population of 1,241. Its name is recorded in the Domesday Book as "Banford", and likely came from Anglo-Saxon "Bēamford" = "tree-trunk ford". The parish church of St John the Baptist was built c. 1860. There are also Methodist and Catholic churches in the village. The village graveyard also contains some re-interred graves from the nearly villages of Derwent and Ashopton which