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Exhibition of JCB designed to generate new sales all over the world

A walk by the ‘History of JCB'

Editorial Interempresas11/06/2013

Previously to the visit to the new Centre of Innovation of JCB in Rocester, JCB Machinery organised for the delegation of the technical presses Spaniard a route by the new exhibition ‘History of JCB', an only and permanent sample that shows the bonds of this company with the industry from the year 1820.

The president of JCB, Sir Anthony Bamford, expressesed recently his pride by the development of the new ‘centre of experiences of customers', the exhibition ‘History of JCB', valued in 5 million euros, and by the important paper that will play these installations in the obtaining of new sales, especially in the emergent markets.

First part of the exhibition with products developed by the family Bamford in the 19th century.

“Treats of a development very ilusionante. It is the first time that narrates the history of our company and the roots of my family in the industry of the manufacture in the form of a permanent exhibition. We are an innovative company and our success during the last 66 years has based in the innovation, the key of the 'History of JCB'. In this exhibition shows our history, that is only, and something of what can be all very proud”, signalled Sir Anthony Bamford.

“The exhibition ‘History of JCB' is also a powerful tool of sales for our customers, especially in the emergent markets, where the appreciate by our origins and our prestige will help them to understand our company and the reason by which are the correct election for his needs of machinery en el futuro", added the president of JCB.

Recreation of the workshop where the family Bamford developed his first tow agricultural.

Some origins that trace back to almost 200 years

The exhibition has a surface of 2.500 m² and includes 14 zones that carry to the visitor in a trip through the time, with start in the year 1820 when the members of the family Bamford were smiths in Uttoxeter, until our days with the range JCB ECHO of machines that save power.

Includes a section that stands out the skill in engineering of Bamfords Ltd, the company of agricultural engineers with headquarters in Uttoxeter, and in which it includes a note of farewell of his director Henry Bamford to his nephew Joseph Cyril Bamford in which it said that “no longer they needed his services”.

One of the first products developed with the name of JCB.

The back success of Bamford and the immense global growth of the company under the administration of his son Sir Anthony, president during almost 36 years, remains patent in the different zones.

The area assigned to the exhibition ‘History of JCB' was occupied by the Centre of Design of JCB and the Office of Planes of Production from 1970 until the starts of the years 1980, when they entered the units of specific business of each product and relocated to the designers and delineantes.

Manipulador Telescopic JCB 520-4, developed in the year 1981.

In the actuality, the visitors of this exhibition go through the ancient office of the Mr. Bamford, where worked from 1970 until his retirement in 1975. Always in the centre of the design and development of engineering, there had of a complete vision of the world of JCB. From this side of his office could access to his steering of design and to the delineantes and from the window of the rear part could see the progress of the development of production in the workshop of investigation situated below. In the office still find the original desk of the Mr. Bamford, the chairs and the table of conferences. The visitors also can see a bust of bronze of Mr JCB in his desk, a gift of the workers of JCB in 1954, the year in that it presented more than 250.000 pounds of bonos of productivity to his personnel.

Retrocargadora 3C MK 3, created by JCB in 1977.

Likewise, the exhibition includes 10 of the most famous machines of JCB through the years, and that they had to happen through the roof according to the exhibition went taking form. It includes one of the first products of the Mr. Bamford, a tow basculante hydraulics, and the retrocargadora JCB 3 of 1962, previously restored.

One of the main attractions of the exhibition is a gigantic skeleton of an excavator of orugas JCB JS200 built with bars of steel of 8 mm and created by the prestigious artist Benedict Radcliffe, some of whose works can admire in the Museum Victoria and Albert of London. They were necessary five months of work for the final setting of the work of art, using roughly a kilometre of bar of ironinging, with an approximate weight of two tonnes, a tenth part of the weight of the real machine that represents.

Skeleton of an excavator of orugas JCB JS200 built with bars of steel of 8 mm and created by the prestigious artist Benedict Radcliffe.

The exhibition also covers sections on the way in that the name JCB turned into a global mark; the ethology of the design and innovation of JCB; the expansion until arriving to be a global manufacturer; his growth like manufacturer of agricultural machinery; the world-wide network of service and pieces of JCB; the products JCB for defence and the development of the engine JCB and the vehicle Dieselmax, record of speed.

JCB Dieselmax, vehicle with which the company beat the record of the world of speed with engine diesel.

JCB Gives the welcome in the actuality to an approximate number of 15.000 visitors and expects that this figure arrive to 20.000 from the next year, like result of the development of the exhibition. they are doing The preparativos to open the exhibition to the workers of JCB and his families in the next months.

In the final part of the exhibition the visitors can confirm the commitment of JCB with the environingingment.

Visit to the World-wide Centre of Spare parts of JCB

The day organised by JCB Machinery for the Spanish technical presses included also a visit by the World-wide Centre of Spare parts that the company has in Staffordshire (England) and that has turned into a model of efficiency in the supply of all type of pieces and components, being able to guarantee the delivery of 95% of the references in less than 24 hours in any part of the world.

These imponentes installations receive daily the materials of the different providers with which works JCB, store in his shelves all the references of agile and intuitive form to accelerate the deliveries and suppose finally the point of exit of all the spare parts for the rest of points of storage that has delivered JCB by different countries or for the final customer.