Earth-moving trivia (was "RE: "1997, the Year of the Backhoe" ...Re: Fiber Cut In Sterling VA.""

[Henry Steuart <jhs () ueno egenius org>]

At 09:19 AM 7/29/97 -0700, Bill Woodcock wrote:
>          Peter Galbavy writes:
>        > Thanks for that folks.
>        > I now know that "backhoe" == "JCB". :)
>    
>    So please indulge those of us unfamiliar with the finer points of
>    British outside-plant cable-management...  What does "JCB" stand for?
>  
>                         -Bill 
In case the UK has got bored and gone home....

Literally "Joseph Charles Bamford", who's company, nestled in the Staffordshire countryside near a place called 
Rocester ("Rowster" for those unfamiliar with the vaguaries of English pronunciation!), produces swarms of bright 
yellow "diggers" for use the world over.  

(FYI - they have been sighted this side of "the pond" in both Virginia and Missouri!)

-H-