JCB celebrates 50 years of the loading shovel

摘要

Although JCB is notable for its development of the backhoe loader, it's history in the loader market also goes back a long way. To 1968, in fact, when it acquired UK-based Chaseside Engineering, along with its seven rigid axle machines. JCB relocated the production lines from Blackburn in Lancashire to its headquarters in Rocester, Staffordshire and, during 1969, completed 298 models of its first wheeled loading shovels.