“Many times, people say that the backhoe-loader market is a declining market – it’s shrinking, backhoes are going away. And that’s not true,” says Diego Butzke, product manager, JCB. While he ...

JCB was founded on October 23, 1945, by the late Joseph Cyril Bamford in a garage in the Staffordshire market town of Uttoxeter, UK. It was the same day as his son Anthony, now Lord Bamford, was born.

Back in 2005, the heavy equipment manufacturer JCB set out to build the world's fastest diesel-powered land speed record vehicle and dubbed it the JCB Dieselmax. With a tuned tractor engine jetting ...