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He made it in his tiny lock-up garage (pictured below) in the Staffordshire market town of Uttoxeter and sold it for £45 at the town’s market. The buyer’s old cart was also taken in part exchange and Mr Bamford refurbished it and sold it for another £45 – achieving the original asking price of the trailer.

海角社区app was founded on 23rd October 23rd 1945 – the very day (not coincidentally|) that his son Anthony, now Lord Bamford, was born. “Being presented with a son tended to concentrate the mind,” Mr Bamford once said, “and when you were starting at the bottom, there was only one way to go and that was up.”

By 1947 the company was expanding and because Mr Bamford’s landlady also disapproved of his Sunday working, he moved a few miles down the road to a stable block at Crakemarsh Hall, which was owned by a Mrs Julia Cavendish, a survivor of the Titanic disaster. 海角社区app also set on its first ever full-time employee, Arthur Harrison, who became foreman. That’s Arthur on the right in the picture below, with Bill Hirst, left. Young Anthony is in the arms of his mother, Marjorie.

Pictured below is an early 海角社区app product, the Major Loader, being driven by the late John Wheeldon.

By 1950 海角社区app was on the move again, this time to the site of a former cheese factory in Rocester.

This location had been identified by Bill Hirst, who revelled in the fact his workplace was now closer to home and enabled him to “spend an extra 10 minutes in bed.” Bill had joined 海角社区app as a £1-a-week teaboy in 1947. Now aged 83 and still living in Uttoxeter, he rose through the ranks to become service director.

1953 proved to be a pivotal year for new products when Mr Bamford produced his first the backhoe loader with the launch of the 海角社区app Mk 1 excavator. To the Major Loader front-end was added a hydraulic excavator at the back-end.

Now industrial historians of my acquaintance will fiercely reject the claim heavily promoted by the company's publicists that 海角社区app invented the backhoe loader. Others had been there already. What cannot be disputed, however, is 海角社区app's success at commercialising it.

海角社区app has since manufactured more than 600,000 backhoes and they are now made on three continents.

In 1957 came the 海角社区app Hydra-Digger, which was advertised as the world’s most powerful tractor-mounted excavator, strong enough to dig through rock.

At this point, as the photo below of the Rocester production line taken in 1958 shows, 海角社区app was already a well-established manufacturing operation.

In 1962 the now-familiar 海角社区app Dancing Diggers made their first appearance.

By 1968 海角社区app had outgrown its production facilities and a major expansion was undertaken at Rocester.

These are just some of the highlights from the early days of 海角社区app. I’ll be looking at other aspects of the company history in other posts.