JCB Insurance Services is a fully owned subsidiary of JCB that provides insurance for customers with funding from another fully owned subsidiary, JCB Finance. The design and marketing contract was awarded to Data Select in 2010, which then lost the exclusive rights in 2013. JCB also licenses a range of rugged feature phones and smartphones designed for construction sites. JCB also makes a range of military vehicles, including the JCB HMEE, that have been a source of criticism for the company due to their purchase by Israel for use in the demolition of Palestinian homes. Its JCB Fastrac range of tractors, which entered production in 1990, are notable for being able to drive at speeds of up to 75 km/h (40 mph) on roads and was featured on the BBC television programme Tomorrow's World, and years later as Jeremy Clarkson's tractor of choice in Top Gear. The company also produces wheeled loading shovels and articulated dump trucks. Many of the vehicles produced by JCB are variants of the backhoe loader, including tracked or wheeled variants, mini and large version and other variations, such as forklift vehicles and telescopic handlers for moving materials to the upper floors of a building site. JCB-based memes have also become prevalent in India. In 2014, it was reported that three out of every four pieces of construction equipment sold in India was a JCB, and that its Indian operations accounted for 17.5% of its total revenue. In 2013, JCB set up its fourth manufacturing facility in India. JCB shed 2,000 jobs during the 2008 global financial crisis in 2010 it rehired up to 200 new workers. Its factory at Ballabgarh in Haryana was to become the world's largest backhoe loader manufacturing facility. During that year, JCB announced plans to make India its largest manufacturing hub. Planning of a new £40 million JCB Heavy Products site began following the launch of an architectural design competition in 2007 managed by RIBA Competitions, and by the next year, the firm began to move from its old site in Pinfold Street in Uttoxeter to the new site beside the A50 the Pinfold Street site was demolished in 2009. In the same year, the firm opened a new factory in Pudong, China. In 2005, JCB bought a company, purchasing the German equipment firm Vibromax. Two years later, a JCB factory was completed in Pooler near Savannah, Georgia, in the US, and the next year a factory was opened in Brazil. In 1991, the firm entered a joint venture with Sumitomo of Japan to produce excavators, which ended in 1998. The next year, JCB started its operation in India. In 1978, the Loadall machine was introduced.
The next year, the first 360-degree excavator was introduced, the JCB 7. īy 1964, JCB had sold over 3,000 3C backhoe loaders. In 1957, the firm launched the "hydra-digga", incorporating the excavator and the major loader as a single all-purpose tool useful for the agricultural and construction industries. It was designed by Derby Media and advertising designer Leslie Smith. In 1953, his first backhoe loader was launched, and the JCB logo appeared for the first time. A year later, he began painting his products yellow. In 1950, it moved to an old cheese factory in Rocester, still employing six. In 1948, six people were working for the company, and it made the first hydraulic tipping trailer in Europe. The Fossor (1979) by Walenty Pytel, made from parts of JCB vehicles, at the headquarters in Rocester The first trailer and the welding set have been preserved. At one time he made vehicles in Eckersley's coal yard in Uttoxeter. On the same day as his son Anthony was born, he sold the trailer at a nearby market for £45 (plus a part-exchanged farm cart) and at once made another trailer. The trailer's sides and floor were made from steel sheet that had been part of air raid shelters. In it, using a welding set which he bought second-hand for £2-10s (= £2.50) from English Electric, he made his first vehicle, a tipping trailer from war-surplus materials.
He rented a lock-up garage 3.7 by 4.6 m (12 by 15 ft). was founded by Joseph Cyril Bamford in October 1945 in Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, England.
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