Plant hire group places £2.5m order with JCB
Staffordshire excavator manufacturer JCB has secured an order worth more than £2.5m from a Shropshire plant hire business.
Oswestry-based Ridgway Rentals, originally trading as RAJ Mechanisations, is a family-owned plant hirer which can trace its links with JCB back over more than half a century.
The business was founded by the late Bob Jones in 1961 as a dealer for JCB machines. He forged a strong relationship with JCB founder Joseph Cyril Bamford, who personally delivered the first JCB 7 crawler excavator the company ordered in 1964.
Now led by Bob’s son, Tim Jones, the Shropshire company changed course in 1977 to become a plant hirer and today remains one of JCB’s longest standing customers.
The company’s latest investment is in 26 high specification excavators. The models include a JCB Hydradig, JS131 and JS220 tracked excavators, JS145W, JS160W and JS200W wheeled excavators and eight tonne, zero tailswing 85Z-1 midi excavators. They have been supplied by dealer Gunn JCB.
Stuart Jones, managing director, Ridgway Rentals said: “This latest investment sees us strengthen our excavator fleet with high spec JCB models.”
While based in Shropshire, the plant hire firm operates across the UK supplying the highways, engineering, rail, forestry, quarrying, demolition, waste management, agricultural and horticultural industries.
