THE JCB Fastrac celebrates its 10th birthday this year, but work on what was then called the High Mobility Vehicle or HMV was already underway in the mid-1980s after JCBs top management team had given ...
Founded in 1945, JCB is synonymous with tractors, excavators, tipping trailers, the whole nine yards. But JCB is also responsible for the fastest tractor in the world, a feat worthy of the Guinness ...
JCB is celebrating 25 years since the launch of the first-ever Fastrac models. The prototype was built in a secret hideaway beneath the office block at JCB Transmissions in Wrexham, North Wales, in ...
In October 1945, J. C. Bamford rented a garage in England, purchased a welder, and made an all-steel farm trailer from war surplus parts. Soon he added hydraulics to tip the trailer’s box. Next ...
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Based on JCB chairman Lord Bamford's conviction that a tractor could go even faster than 103mph, Fastrac Two is a very thorough evolution of the original record-breaker. While distinctly different ...
This comes a week after the 335hp tractor, which is JCB’s biggest ever model, was launched in its home country, the UK. Australia’s eastern states will have to wait until the New Year before the ...
A modified JCB Fastrac has set a new world tractor speed record of 135.191 mph (217.570 km/h), which was the average of two high-speed runs conducted at Elvington Airfield in the United Kingdom and ...
Based on JCB chairman Lord Bamford's conviction that a tractor could go even faster than 103mph, Fastrac Two is a very thorough evolution of the original record-breaker. While distinctly different ...