JCB celebrates £500k backhoe order
STAFFORDSHIRE digger manufacturer JCB has won a £500,000 order to supply a fleet of backhoe loaders to a civil engineering firm.
The firm will hand over ten JCB 3CX Sitemasters to Fred Mence Construction, which is based in Washington, Tyne and Wear. The firm is carrying out a fleet replacement programme.
The deal comes just days after Rocester-based JCB celebrated 60 years of making its famous backhoe loaders.
Company founder Joseph Cyril Bamford invented the concept of the backhoe and the first JCB model was manufactured in 1953 after he combined a lightweight backhoe with a major loadall tractor loader. It created, for the first time, a single machine which combined a front shovel and rear excavator arm.
Under the leadership of current JCB chairman Lord Bamford, the company has gone on to manufacture the machines in the UK, India and Brazil and to date more than half a million JCB backhoes have rolled off production lines around the world.
