JCB (company) photography. The logo was designed by Leslie Smith, and is off-set at 18 degrees from the horizontal and 22 degrees from the vertical—the angles Joe Bamford liked. To demonstrate his faith in the hydraulic fail safes on JCB machines (which lock the arms in the event of a loss of hydraulic pressure, preventing them from crashing to the ground), Joe Cyril Bamford arranged to have several backhoes raise themselves up on their arms, and drove his car beneath them. This has since developed into a world-famous demonstration of the versatility of the backhoe configuration. The JCB display team (JCB Dancing
Cyril Culverwell by side with the Germans to defeat the Bolshevist menace." He was re-elected at the next 3 elections, and held the seat until the 1945 general election, which he did not contest. Cyril Culverwell Cyril Thomas Culverwell (22 October 1895 – 29 October 1963) was a British Conservative Party politician. He was elected at a by-election in February 1928 as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bristol West. In 1938, Culverwell caused controversy by writing an article for the "Bristol Evening Post" of 7 November 1938, which praised Nazi Germany. The next year, November 1939 Culverwell drew further criticism when