Uttoxeter Coope. The last remains of the brewery were demolished in the 1960s to make way for the Maltings shopping precinct and car park. The brewery clock was re-furbished and installed on the town hall in the 2000s. In 1945, Joseph Cyril Bamford founded J C Bamford Excavators Limited in Uttoxeter, now known as JCB. The firm, based in the nearby village of Rocester, is the world's third-largest construction equipment manufacturer. The firm's first vehicle was a tipping trailer made from war-surplus materials, which J. C. Bamford built in a rented lock-up garage in Uttoxeter. The Bamford family had previously started
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