Chairman JCB
Innovation milestones
- 1949: JCB Major Loader revolutionises agriculture
- 1952: JCB backhoe loader is born with the Mk 1 Excavator
- 1963: JCB 3C takes backhoe performance to new levels; a design classic
- 1964: JCB 7 becomes JCB’s first crawler excavator
- 1971: JCB 110 hydrostatic crawler loader proves our pioneering spirit
- 1977: JCB 520 telescopic handler, a new concept, takes the industry by storm
- 1980: JCB 3CX marks the construction industry’s largest investment in a single machine
- 1990: JCB Fastrac becomes the world’s first fully suspended, high-speed draught tractor
- 1993: JCB robot skid steer loader becomes the world’s safest skid steer
- 1997: JCB Teletruk takes the industry by storm
- 2006: 2 JCB 444 diesel engines power the JCB Dieselmax to the diesel word land speed record
- 2010: JCB Eco machines take machine efficiency and productivity to new world-beating levels