JCB (company) as a generic description for mechanical diggers and excavators and now appears in the "Oxford English Dictionary", although it is still held as a trademark. JCB was founded by Joseph Cyril Bamford in October 1945 in Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, England. He rented a lock-up garage . In it, using a welding set which he bought second-hand for £1 from English Electric, he made his first vehicle, a tipping trailer from war-surplus materials. The trailer's sides and floor were made from steel sheet that had been part of air raid shelters. On the same day as his son Anthony was born, he
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