Joseph Bamford to more than 130 countries around the world, while Bamford himself was appointed a CBE for Services to Export in 1969. In 1993 he became the first British citizen to be honoured in the Association of Equipment Manufacturers Hall of Fame, and remained the only British inductee until his son Anthony was inducted in 2008. What made Bamford different from many engineers was that he was also a marketeer. Bamford personally demanded to know daily from his staff how many "JCB Yellow" vehicles were off the road awaiting spares. Bamford created an image that JCBs were there to work, and
Cyril Overall Cyril Overall Cyril Arthur Goodwin Overall (May 7, 1905 – December 23, 1970) was an English-born mechanical engineer and political figure in Ontario. He represented Niagara Falls in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1943 to 1945 as a Co-operative Commonwealth member. He was born in Walthamstow, Essex, the son of William Joseph Overall and Annie Sophia Walker, and came to Canada in 1906 with his family. Overall was educated in Stamford and Niagara Falls, at the Tri-State College of Engineering in Angola, Indiana and at the Ontario Training College for Technical Teachers in Hamilton. In 1935, he married Mary