JCB at 70: Memories of a tour guide...
Oct 26, 2015, 10:19 AM
(Broadcast on BBC Radio Stoke, October 2015)
JCB's twelve thousand employees are all getting an extra day's holiday to celebrate the company's seventieth anniversary.
The digger-maker was founded on October 23rd 1945 in a small garage in Uttoxeter.
Seven decades on it sells machinery two one hundred and twenty companies across the world.
BBC Radio Stoke's EMMA THOMAS has been to the World Headquarters in Rocester this week where she met two of the firm's longest serving employees, LES HUMPHRIES and IVAN DYCHE...