£500k order for JCB digger fleet
Staffordshire digger giant JCB has won an order worth more than £500,000 for a fleet of new diggers.
The deal for the backhoe loaders has been made with civil engineering specialist Fred Mence Construction based in Washington, Tyne and Wear.
It comes just days after JCB celebrated 60 years of making backhoe loaders – a machine invented by company founder Joseph Cyril Bamford in 1953.
More than half a million of the machines have been manufactured since then.
The firm will hand over 10 JCB 3CX Sitemasters to the North East company which is carrying out a fleet replacement programme.
The cabs for the machines, which are made at JCB's world headquarters at Rocester, next Uttoxeter, are manufactured at JCB Cab Systems in Rugeley.
The chairman of JCB, Lord Bamford, will next year celebrate a half century with the company his father founded.
