Joseph Bamford He continued to design both boats and diesel engines. Bamford was awarded the honorary degree of a Doctor of Technology from both Loughborough University in 1989 and Keele University in 2000. Bamford died in a London clinic on 1 March 2001. At his death, JCB was the largest privately owned engineering company in Britain, employing 4,500 people and manufacturing 30,000 machines a year in 12 factories on three continents. It had revenues of £850m in 1999, earned from 140 countries. His portraits by Lucinda Douglas-Menzies and Leslie Smithers (whilst he was still the head of his JCB empire) are in
Cyril Dumpleton Cyril Dumpleton Cyril Walter Dumpleton (25 June 1897 – 1 October 1966) was a British Labour Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the St Albans division of Hertfordshire from 1945 to 1950. Dumpleton was born in St Albans, the son of Walter Dumpleton, and was educated at an elementary school. In 1920 he married Louise Lefevre, the daughter of Charles Lefevre from Birmingham. He was a member of the Society of Friends (known as "Quakers"). During World War I, Dumpleton served with the Royal Naval Air Service and the Royal Air Force, and later became