END OF AN ERA AS PRODUCTION SWITCHES TO NEW £40 MILLION FACTORY
The curtain today fell on almost 140 years of manufacturing history in Uttoxeter as the final machine to be made at JCB's Heavy Products factory rolled off the production line.
The site on the edge of the town has been linked to manufacturing since 1871 when the agricultural machinery makers Bamfords Ltd opened for business. Bamfords Ltd went into liquidation in 1980 and in 1989 JCB bought the site in Pinfold Street and began production of its famous machines. >>>