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 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