What do you think of when you hear the name JCB?
Big yellow diggers on building sites?
Well you're not wrong, but there's lots of other great stuff you can find out about our company and machines. And it's all here, on your very own JCB explore website.
The very first machine that Mr JCB built was a tipping trailer he made using a £1 welding set and sold at the local market for £45! That was in 1945.
In 1948, there were 6 people working for the company which then made a hydraulic tipping trailer - the very first in the whole of Europe.
In 1953, along came the first machine to be stamped with the JCB logo you see on machines today. This was a Backhoe Loader (what we all call a digger!) and it's the machine that everyone nowadays calls a JCB.
In the 1960s, Mr JCB began the tradition of cool JCB stunts to publicise the company name. This is how the world-famous Dancing Diggers started. If you've never seen the Dancing Diggers before please view our quick movie.
Today, JCB has over 7,000 employees and we make 279 different machines. But we're still based in the Midlands so we've got our own JCB jet and helicopter that we use to fly in our customers.
JCB Around the World
The JCB company began in Rocester in Staffordshire but we now have huge manufacturing plants on four continents:
JCB sells over 279 different types of machines in over 150 countries. So wherever you go in the world, you'll always find a JCB machine!
Mr JCB
Everyone's heard of JCB, but do you know how the company got its name? Well, if we tell you that it all started with one man, Joseph Cyril Bamford, you can probably work it out for yourself!
Yes, Mr JCB gave his company his own initials. He started everything off in 1945, right at the end of World War II, in a garage measuring 3.66 metres by 4.57 metres - probably about the same size as your bedroom!