Border Fine Arts. Essential Repairs, JCB back hoe. Limited Edition 1104/1750

  
Mechanical diggers may have a limited appeal to many people, but to the JCB. Company who build them, there is definitely another side to these huge spidery.

Bright yellow monsters who weigh anything up to seven or eight ton apiece. Week, it was 1945 and the man with the vision was Joseph Cyril Bamford. Would become a mark of quality recognised the world over.

He started out with a pile. Of war surplus material labelled as scrap and a second hand welding machine bought.

By the early 1950s they bought an old cheese works in Rocester and they. 1954 saw a major turning point when Bamford combined a hydraulic. Loader and excavator onto a single vehicle. The backhoe loader made full use of the.

Immense force of hydraulic power and people loved it. On the way home from a visit to the shops.

This curious young boy and his mother stop briefly to watch a workmen repair a burst water main. Turned the main supply off, allowing the water to drain away, the workman has cut through the tarmac with. His JCB disc grinder and is now using a hammer drill to break up the surface. Will then be used to clear the rubble, exposing the broken pipe.

This model is in excellent condition, no issues at all.