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

  • From: Henry Steuart
  • Date: Tue Jul 29 14:48:58 1997 
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-