JCB backhoe restoration

Following a request from JCB earlier this year Tyneside were proud to support JCB by supplying them with a full set of glass for a vintage backhoe loader restoration for one of their long-standing customers.

Following a request from JCB earlier this year Tyneside were proud to support JCB by supplying them with a full set of glass for a vintage backhoe loader restoration for one of their long-standing customers.

See the following story and pictures of the machine before and after its restoration was complete.

One of JCB’s longest-standing customers has unwrapped a unique present – a vintage backhoe loader restored to its former glory to mark the digger maker’s approaching 75thanniversary.Lincolnshire-based Eric Carnaby & Son has been a customer since 1959 and over the following six decades has bought more than 150 JCB machines. Now JCB has said thank you to the firm for its loyalty by restoring the Carnaby family’s cherished 1964 JCB 1 backhoe.

The project was kept a closely guarded secret until George Bamford – grandson of JCB Founder Joseph Cyril Bamford CBE – sprung the restoration surprise during a visit to the company’s base in Immingham, near Grimsby, to collect the machine. Now six months later the backhoe has been handed back to the company after a team at JCB’s World HQ in Rocester, Staffordshire spent hundreds of hours lovingly restoring it.