Joseph Cyril Bamford CBE (21 June 1916 – 1 March 2001) was the founder of the JCB company, manufacturing heavy plant.
Joe Bamford was born into a Roman Catholic family from Uttoxeter in Staffordshire, which owned Bamfords Ltd, an agricultural engineering business. His great grandfather Henry Bamford was born in Yoxall, and had built up his own ironmongers business, which by 1881 it employed 50 men, 10 boys and 3 women. Bamfords International Farm...
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Joseph Cyril Bamford CBE (21 June 1916 – 1 March 2001) was the founder of the JCB company, manufacturing heavy plant.
Joe Bamford was born into a Roman Catholic family from Uttoxeter in Staffordshire, which owned Bamfords Ltd, an agricultural engineering business. His great grandfather Henry Bamford was born in Yoxall, and had built up his own ironmongers business, which by 1881 it employed 50 men, 10 boys and 3 women. Bamfords International Farm Machinery became one of the country's major agricultural equipment suppliers, famous for its bailers, rakes, hay turners, hay Wufflers, Mangold cutters, and standing engines, which were exported all over the world. The company eventually ceased trading in 1986.
After attending Stonyhurst College, Lancashire, Joe Bamford joined the Alfred Herbert company in Coventry, then the UK's largest machine- tool manufacturer, and rose to represent the firm in Ghana. He returned home in 1938 to join the family firm, but in 1941 was called up by the RAF...
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