This week we spent an interesting afternoon as guests of JC Balls & Sons at Ambergate, Derbys, completing the filming of Tim Starkey-Smith's history of the JCB backhoe loader. For more details see blog 24 August.
Here we found a JCB3 under restoration (left).It was first registered in Edinburgh in 1960.
Importance of this machine was that it was the first of the JCBs to incorporate a side shift (above).
The JCB's engine and transmission had been taken out of the machine during restoration. Here it was - a Fordson Diesel Major, the skid unit that JCB received.
Traces of Fordson blue still to be seen.
Restorer and demonstrator David Whittle showed us a special piece of equipment in the corner of the yard. This was one of the original trailers made by JC Bamford in 1945-6. The tinwork came from redundant Anderson shelters and the tail-lift was still by a screw mechanism.
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