JCB giant logo marks 75th anniverary
A huge artwork was carved into a Staffordshire stubble field to mark JCB’s impending 75th birthday.
The giant logo was created in a field eight miles away from the company’s world headquarters at Rocester and covered almost eight acres – equivalent to four football pitches.
The birthday ‘75’ tribute is so distinctive it is claimed it can be seen by imaging satellites orbiting high above the earth.
The special artwork was created ahead of JCB’s 75th anniversary on October 23 by one of the company’s most famous products, the Fastrac tractor, which was equipped with a hi-tech precision guidance system.
A team of JCB employees was behind the larger-than-life creation which was close to the market town of Uttoxeter, where the late Joseph Cyril Bamford founded JCB in a lock-up garage on the same day as his son Anthony, now Lord Bamford, was born.
The team comprised Fastrac sales engineer Peter Williams, of Acton Trussell, near Stafford; senior Fastrac sales engineer James Coxon, of Marchington, near Uttoxeter; JCB agriculture product and marketing manager David Timmis, of Haughton, near Stafford and Fastrac product specialist Tom Mowforth, of Stafford.
