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3 unusual facts about Joseph Cyril Bamford


Joseph Cyril Bamford

Bamford also conceived the "dancing diggers," whose 1999 display in Las Vegas stopped the gamblers.

He built Rocester along the lines of Bourneville and Port Sunlight into an effective marketing home for the company, and an efficient production centre and a virtual "home" for his employees.

Working in supply and logistics, he returned to the African Gold Coast, to run a staging post for USAF planes being ferried to the Middle East.


JCB Academy

The school pupils and teachers are divided into three houses, named Bamford (after JCB founder Joseph Cyril Bamford), Arkwright (after industrialist Richard Arkwright) and Royce (after Rolls-Royce founder Henry Royce).


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