“Many times, people say that the backhoe-loader market is a declining market – it’s shrinking, backhoes are going away. And that’s not true,” says Diego Butzke, product manager, JCB. While he ...

A full‑size JCB Backhoe in a Box has arrived at King’s Cross, launching a UK tour and celebrating 70 years of the iconic British machine.

JCB was founded on October 23, 1945, by the late Joseph Cyril Bamford in a garage in the Staffordshire market town of Uttoxeter, UK. It was the same day as his son Anthony, now Lord Bamford, was born.

JCB's new Generation 214 backhoe-loader showed itself aggressive but fuel-efficient in trenching and excavating comparisons with its 214 Series-3 predecessor (background). The new machine, which rolls ...

In a new series, we take a look at some of the great machines that have built the world today, starting with the famous ‘dancing’ JCB. These days, no job would be complete without a backhoe loader ...

Two very different kinds of backhoe-loader buyers dominate sales of full-sized machines (dig depths of 14 feet and larger), and their very different expectations may have polarized the ...

JCB has this week unveiled its latest generation of backhoe loaders, with a large number of new features that aim to boost worldwide sales of the machine it launched 70 years ago. Richard Brooks, ...

STAFFORDSHIRE-based JCB has reached a major production milestone with the manufacture of its half millionth backhoe loader – the machine that made the company famous around the world. The first ...

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