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This photograph was published in the Illustrated Chronicle on the 2nd of July 1915.
During the Great War the Illustrated Chronicle published photographs of soldiers and sailors from Newcastle and the North East of England, which had been in the news. The photographs were sent in by relatives and give us a glimpse into the past.
The physical collection held by Newcastle Libraries comprises bound volumes of the newspaper from 1910 to 1925. We are keen to find out more about the people in the photographs. If you recognise anyone in the images please comment below.
Copies of this photograph may be ordered from us, for more information see: www.newcastle.gov.uk/tlt Please make a note of the image reference number above to help speed up your order.
Published in 1967 for the princely sum of two rupees. The original is of polyconic projection to the scale of 1 inch to 15.78 miles.
This photograph was published in the Illustrated Chronicle on the 20th of July 1915.
During the Great War the Illustrated Chronicle published photographs of soldiers and sailors from Newcastle and the North East of England, which had been in the news. The photographs were sent in by relatives and give us a glimpse into the past.
The physical collection held by Newcastle Libraries comprises bound volumes of the newspaper from 1910 to 1925. We are keen to find out more about the people in the photographs. If you recognise anyone in the images please comment below.
Copies of this photograph may be ordered from us, for more information see: www.newcastle.gov.uk/tlt Please make a note of the image reference number above to help speed up your order.
The Postcard
A postcard published by the Philco Publishing Co.
The card was posted in London on Saturday the 13th. October 1906 to:
Miss M. Sabourin,
28 Cadogan Terrace,
Victoria Park,
London NE.
The message on the back of the card was as follows:
"12.10.06.
Hello! How are you?
I think I owe you a p.c.
don't I?
Bert and I went over to
Miss Mellish's place the
other Sunday - had a
very decent time - but
Bert did not see Daisy!!!
Do you ever hear from
her?
Hope you are well.
Kindest regards,
Yours sincerely,
Will Rogers".
Philco
The Philco Publishing Co. of 1-6 Holborn Place, London were active between 1905 to 1934. They published many different types of artist-signed cards and photo-based view-cards.
They are noted for three large sets representing Faith, Hope, and Charity.
Most of their cards were printed in Germany, although a set of real photo birthday greeting cards were manufactured in Italy.
Miss Phyllis Dare
Phyllis Dare (15th. August 1890 – 27th. April 1975) was an English singer and actress, famous for her performances in Edwardian musical comedy and other musical theatre in the first half of the 20th century.
Born Phyllis Constance Haddie Dones in Chelsea, London, Dare first performed on stage at the age of nine, in the Christmas pantomime 'Babes in the Wood' (1899).
Later that year, she appeared as Little Christina in 'Ib and Little Christina'. She soon played Mab in the Seymour Hicks musical 'Bluebell in Fairyland', and at the age of 15, she took over the starring role of Angela in 'The Catch of the Season'.
In 1909, Dare created the role of Eileen Cavanagh in the hit musical 'The Arcadians', where she met the producer George Edwardes. This started a long association between the two, who collaborated on productions including 'The Girl in the Train', 'Peggy' and 'The Quaker Girl'.
In 1912, she starred in 'The Sunshine Girl'. In 1913 she joined the cast of 'The Dancing Mistress' as Nancy Joyce at the Adelphi Theatre, and continued to star in successful productions throughout the 1920's, including in the role of Mariana in 'The Lady of the Rose' (1922).
During her later career, she turned to straight plays, some of which included 'Aren't We All' in 1929, 'Words and Music' in 1932, and 'The Fugitives' in 1936.
Phyllis appeared occasionally in films, starring in 'The Argentine Tango and Other Dances' in 1913, 'Dr. Wake's Patient' in 1916, 'Crime on the Hill' in 1933 and 'Debt of Honour' in 1936.
In the 1940's she appeared in a tour of 'Full House', and was later cast in 'Other People's Houses'.
In 1949, Phyllis Dare opened as Marta the mistress in Ivor Novello's musical, 'King's Rhapsody'. The show ran for two years, and was Dare's last theatrical endeavour. She retired to Brighton in 1951, and died at the age of 84.
Joseph Samachson
So what else happened on the day that Will Rogers posted the card?
Well, the 13th. October 1906 marked the birth of Joseph Samachson. Joseph was an American scientist and writer, primarily of science fiction and comic books.
Joseph Samachson's Career
Joseph Samachson was born in Trenton, New Jersey. He was the son of Russian Jewish parents, Anna Roshansky and David Louis Samachson, a businessman.
After graduating from Rutgers University, he earned a Ph.D. in chemistry from Yale at the age of 23 before becoming an assistant professor at the College of Medicine, University of Illinois.
Joseph also headed a laboratory in metabolic research at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Hines, Illinois, a research unit dealing with diseases that affect the skeleton.
Samachson worked as a research chemist for the American Molasses Company until 1938, leaving to become a freelance technical writer.
Samachson wrote and translated a number of scientific papers. He also wrote science fiction and comics.
Science Fiction and Pulps
Samachson's novella "The Dragon Army", written under his "William Morrison" byline, was the cover story in the November 1952 issue of Fantastic Adventures.
Joseph wrote a number of science fiction works (under the pseudonym William Morrison), including two novels published in Startling Stories.
He also wrote the 1937 pulp title Murder of a Professor and short stories for a number of magazines, including Money from Heaven (1942). He also penned a couple of Captain Future pulp novels c.1941–1942 (under the house name "Brett Sterling"), and had work appear in the science fiction magazine Galaxy.
Joseph's young adult novel Mel Oliver and Space Rover on Mars was published by Gnome Press in 1954, and was also published in a Dutch translation.
Comics
Joseph began writing for DC Comics in late 1942, working on comic scripts for characters which notably included Batman. He also wrote scripts for comics and characters including Sandman, Green Arrow, Airwave and Robotman, as well as a string of 17 science-fiction stories in 1955 and 1956.
In 1955, he created (with artist Joe Certa) the Martian Manhunter in the pages of Detective Comics #225.
Don Markstein's Toonopedia suggests that Samachson wrote many subsequent appearances of J'Onn J'Onzz rather than just the first. Jerry Bails also lists Samachson as having co-created the historical DC character Tomahawk.
In 1943 Samachson also created the character Two-Gun Percy, which first appeared under the DC Comics imprint All Funny Comics and was drawn by Bernard Baily.
In 1975, DC Comics adapted an unused story that Joseph wrote in the 1940's featuring the Seven Soldiers of Victory into a six-part serial in Adventure Comics #438-443.
Television
Samachson also wrote scripts for Captain Video and His Video Rangers.
Joseph Samachson's Other Work
With his wife Dorothy Samachson, he wrote about theater ("Let's Meet the Theatre" and "The Dramatic Story of the Theatre"), music ("Masters of Music" and "The Fabulous World of Opera"), ballet, archaeology ("Good Digging") and a number of other titles, including Rome, a Rand McNally "Cities of the World" title.
In addition, Samachson was a frequent contributor to scientific journals and the author of "The Armor Within Us: The Story of Bone".
The Death of Joseph Samachson
Samachson died of complications from Parkinson's disease on the 2nd. June 1980 in Chicago, Illinois. Joseph was 73 years of age when he died.
He was survived by his wife, now deceased, a son, Michael Samachson, and a daughter, the photographer Miriam Berkley.
Published by Pembertons United Kingdom, Apr May Jun 1954
Stories by Ray Bradbury, Gardner Fox, Fox B. Holden
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Tre nuovi coach, Dolcenera, Emis KiIIa, Max Pezzali, e il grande ritorno di Raffaella Carrà per la quarta edizione dell’evento televisivo che premia la Voce. Da mercoledi 24 febbraio in prima serata su Rai2. Conduce Federico Russo.
Il ritorno della “signora” della Tv e tre nuovi coach - ciascuno con il proprio “marchio”, dal rap al pop - a caccia cli talenti: Raffaella Carrà, Dolcenera, Emis Killa e Max Pezzali. Saranno loro, da mercoledi 24 febbraio in prima serata su Rai2, a occupare le quattro poltrone rosse cli “The Voice of Italy”. Quattordici puntate per tornare alla ricerca cli talenti, partendo solo dalla voce. A condurre questa quarta edizione ci sarà ancora Federico Russo, mentre nei panni della V-Reporter sarà Angelina che mostrerà i retroscena e le curiosità, e interagirà con il pubblico da casa attraverso il sito ufficiale www.thevoiceofitaly.rai.it e i social network di “The Voice of Italy”. Il programma, inoltre, sarà seguito in diretta anche da Radio2 Rai con “The Voice of Radio2”.
Oltre i quattro coach, novità anche nello svolgimento delle quattro fasi della gara, durante la quale i talenti si esibiranno dal vivo con un’orchestra che eseguirà la grande musica italiana e internazionale. Le Blind Audition, le audizioni durante le quali i Coach non possono vedere il talento, passeranno da cinque a sei, mentre per le due Battle: i Coach dovranno scegliere tre componenti della propria squadra anziché due, e solo uno accederà alla fase successiva. Anche in questa edizione, inoltre, sarà valida l’opzione Steal, grazie alla quale i cantanti eliminati da un Coach, potranno essere recuperati da un altro. Seguirà la fase dei due Knockout, durante la quale i talenti si sfideranno con il loro cavallo di battaglia. Si arriverà cosî alla parte finale e più attesa dello show con i quattro Live, che decreteranno il vincitore cli “The Voice of Italy".
“The Voice Of Italy” è un programma realizzato da Rai2 in collaborazione con Talpa Italia, negli studi del Centro di Produzione Tv Rai in via Mecenate a Milano.
Published by Bedřich Kočí in Prague. Circa 1908.
Animated gif generated with StereoPhotoMaker, a freeware program by Masuji Suto & David Sykes.
The Columbus Metro Parks has included one of my photos (golden spider web at sunrise, take at Three Creeks Metro Park) in their Autumn edition of the Parkscope. Doing me cute happy dance : )
Suspended Animation Classic #215
Originally published February 7, 1993 (#6)
(Dates are approximate)
Two-Fisted Tales
By Michael Vance
You can’t go home again. What was revolutionary in 1951 is not today because the revolution succeeded. Risqué then, even Marilyn Monroe seems innocent now.
“Two-Fisted Tales” and EC Comics changed comic books forever. In 1951, they were startling; they set a new standard. That standard was adopted, and has now been surpassed many times.
Well, not entirely. The early issues of “Mad” magazine remain unequaled. Certain stories from “Tales from the Crypt”, “Weird Science” and other EC Comics are still classics. But the first issues of “Two-Fisted Tales” now being reprinted seem … tame.
An anthology comic, each issue featured four stories. In the second issue, five artists are represented that all became legends.
John Severin and Bill Elder’s “War Story” is set in the Korean War. “Jivaro Death!” by Harvey Kurtzman takes place on the Amazon River. Both use twist endings that were typical of EC, but atypical of Kurtzman’s later work.
Johnny Craig’s “Flight From Danger” travels to Germany during WWII. Aboard an 18th century ship, Wally Wood spins the tale of a man’s impression into the British navy in “Brutal Capt. Bull”. Craig’s tale of the attempted flight of a scientist to America and Wood’s adventure both fall short of the heights these artists were to reach.
But in ’51, they must have seemed as wild as Monroe.
They lack the sophistication of later “Two-Fisted Tales” stories because most ‘50s comics lacked the maturity that this title and other ECs would eventually inspire. In their day, EC would inevitably become so controversial that they helped trigger the near death of the entire industry under the pink eye of Senator Joseph McCarthy!
Genius has to start somewhere. Alas, genius never stands unchallenged. But don’t save your pennies for later, more innovative issues, or the complete series will never see the light of day. And, at one time, it was the light of day.
“Two-Fisted Tales #2/$1.50, 31 pages, published by Russ Cochran/available in comics shops.
Estilismo: Paulo Mendez
Makeup: Marcelo Celis, Coni Montenegro.
Modelos: Danae Barla y Joanna Ferrari.
Pelo: Cristopher Maldonado, Romina silva, Felipe Cardenas.
Foto: Pedro Quintana.
Asist. foto. Caro Albornoz, Mathias Sielfeld.
This week, I came home to find a plaque that featured one of my photos. In the Fall, my photo was selected from over 500 photos as a winner and lead photo of the Annual Fall Photo contest. The paper has a distribution of approximately 415,000. It was fun to get the call while at WDW. Thanks for looking.
P.S. I have nothing to do with the bomber on the right ;-)
I created a series of flower characters for a book titled Blossom Buddies, published by teNeues in 2009. The book includes 100 blossom buddies.
This photograph was published in the Illustrated Chronicle on the 10th of November 1915.
During the Great War the Illustrated Chronicle published photographs of soldiers and sailors from Newcastle and the North East of England, which had been in the news. The photographs were sent in by relatives and give us a glimpse into the past.
The physical collection held by Newcastle Libraries comprises bound volumes of the newspaper from 1910 to 1925. We are keen to find out more about the people in the photographs. If you recognise anyone in the images please comment below.
Copies of this photograph may be ordered from us, for more information see: www.newcastle.gov.uk/tlt Please make a note of the image reference number above to help speed up your order.
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Dopo l’anteprima di Imola, Laura Pausini sarà protagonista di quattro speciali appuntamenti live per i quali l’artista è già al lavoro con un team di professionisti e per cui sta definendo, insieme alla sua band, nuovi arrangiamenti e una scaletta pensata appositamente per questi concerti. L'ultima fatica discografica, Simili, della cantante italiana la porta in giro per gli stadi di tutta Italia con #pausinistadi. Non una, ma ben due date a San Siro, il 4 e 5 giugno.
Il lato destro del cuore o Lado derecho del corazón? Si può cantare sia in italiano sia in spagnolo il primo singolo estratto dall'album Simili. Famosa in tutto il mondo, in particolare in America Latina, Laura Pausini porta i successi del nuovo disco in tour in Italia e nelle capitali europee.
"La scaletta comprende 45 canzoni. Sono tantissime anzi alcune che volevo fare le ho tenute fuori perché lo spettacolo dura già 2 ore e mezza e poi a San Siro da una certa ora in poi in poi non si può più suonare. Il palco l'ho disegnato io, lo volevo imponente ma semplice. C’è tutta la passione di un lavoro serissimo che ho preparato con la mia squadra. Nello show c'è tutto l'amore che posso e che voglio portare in giro con trasporto e con tanto sentimento".
Non mancano ovviamente i successi storici, da La solitudine a Resta in ascolto, da Primavera in anticipo a Io canto. E insieme a lei canteranno tutti i suoi fan, nella doppia data a San Siro.
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Sono tornati! Tobias Sammet, frontman di Edguy, è tornato in studio al lavoro su un nuovo capitolo discografico dei suoi Avantasia. Si tratta del successore di “The Mystery Of Time”. Il nuovo album di Avantasia si intitola “Ghostlights” uscito a gennaio del 2016. Poi, a Marzo 2016, Avantasia saranno in tour che partirà da Berlino il 4 marzo e la tappa italiana è prevista per il 22 marzo all’Alcatraz di Milano.
Ospite della serata Michael Kiske, cantante tedesco, famoso nell'ambiente heavy metal e power metal per essere stato il cantante degli Helloween dal 1987 al 1993. Nella seconda parte della carriera si è dedicato invece a sonorità distanti dall'heavy metal e più orientate all'AOR, pur continuando a collaborare con band del calibro di Gamma Ray, Avantasia, Edguy, Timo Tolkki.
Tobias Sammet ha dichiarato: “Ho passato molti mesi in studio, lavorando segretamente ed in maniera ossessiva su qualcosa che rappresentasse un vero capitolo nella carriera di Avantasia. Devo dire che Avantasia sono una fantastica valvola di sfogo per la mia creatività. Il nuovo materiale scritto dalla band è dinamico e decisamente differente ma il marchio Avantasia è presente. Sono orgoglioso di quanto fatto finora. E non vedo l’ora di tornare on the road e calcare i palchi europei. In passato è stato molto difficile organizzare un tour con Avantasia, visti gli impegni di ciascuno di noi nelle altre band. Ma adesso tutto ciò si sta concretizzando e siamo prontissimi! Si tratterà di un grande show, della durata di tre ore abbondanti, che porterà i fan nel mondo di Avantasia. I brani che eseguiremo dal vivo comprenderanno tutte la storia del gruppo: a partire da ‘The Metal Opera’ fino a ‘Ghostlights’ e tutto ciò che c’è stato in mezzo!”
Tobias Sammet - voce
Michael Kiske - voce
Amanda Somerville - cori
Sascha Paeth - chitarra
André Neygenfind - basso
Michael Rodenberg - tastiere e cori
Felix Bohnke - batteria
"The Tarzan Twins," originally published in October 1927, was followed by "Tarzan and the Tarzan Twins, with Jad-bal-ja, the Golden Lion," in March 1936. The two books have also been published together under the title "Tarzan and the Tarzan Twins," in 1963. This edition, published by Wildside Press in 2005, reproduces the cover of the first edition from 1927.
This photograph was published in the Illustrated Chronicle on the 3rd of August 1915.
During the Great War the Illustrated Chronicle published photographs of soldiers and sailors from Newcastle and the North East of England, which had been in the news. The photographs were sent in by relatives and give us a glimpse into the past.
The physical collection held by Newcastle Libraries comprises bound volumes of the newspaper from 1910 to 1925. We are keen to find out more about the people in the photographs. If you recognise anyone in the images and have any stories and information to add please comment below.
Copies of this photograph may be ordered from us, for more information see: www.newcastle.gov.uk/tlt Please make a note of the image reference number above to help speed up your order.
Published by Usborne books in 1979, The Detectives Handbook (also published as 3 separate books) was quite simply my favourite childhood book.
Usborne are always known for the wealth of their illustrations, and these were no different. Pages of Colin King's artwork that made me want to go out and copy it, and above all, I wanted that detectives office!
Published by the B P Co., Ltd., London.
Postally unused.
One of a set of twenty-four postcards donated to Bournemouth Civic Society by Michael Rogers, Diocesan Archivist of the Anglican Church of South Queensland - having been collected by a former Archbishop who visited Bournemouth in the 1930's, scanned here with the images curated for online access, prior to donation to Bournemouth Libraries.
Description: Program published for the 1988 Ingleside Invaders baseball team. The programs were self-produced by the team under direction of their head coach Dan Harrington, with help from assistant coaches and other community members. Mr. Harrington has given his approval to the San Francisco Public Library for these publications to be reproduced here on Flickr in digital format. Mr. Harrington has written a description of these publications and the Ingleside Invaders baseball team...
"The last of the Sandlot League teams in San Francisco is the Ingleside Invaders, the only team to sign up in 1990 for the 18-and-under division of SF Rec-Park Baseball, the direct descendent of the Sandlot League known in the 1980s as the Neighborhood League. (I don't know when the Sandlot League started, but it is thought to have its origins before 1900).
"The Invaders ball club was a successful representative of the neighborhood, with players from many public, private and parochial high schools chipping in small amounts of money (no more than $25), getting to keep full uniforms; businesses donated funds (except for the Marines who still owe me fifty bucks!) while receiving ad-space for the team's self-produced publications showing stories about "the Greater Ingleside" history and contemporary times to the rest of San Francisco. The Invaders made some life-long friendships and fielded some good baseball teams!
"My recently passed father Richard Harrington took many of the photos, while my brother Richard Jr, who passed away in 1998, compiled some stats and kept book for many of the games. The 1986 paper stock was provided by the Coca-Cola bottlers on Bayshore Blvd. and printed by the team, complete with a team picture in the relatively new light rail vehicle (LRV) "streetcar" yard off Ocean Ave.
"Ingleside finished second in 1986, 87, and 88. Ingleside was surprised in a playoff game in 1989. But it did give the best example of multiple schools represented on the same summer team and a model to use for the RBI Baseball and Softball program run independently by Dan Harrington (calling in lots of favors for help) in 1997 at Crocker-Amazon and Balboa Park, and in conjunction with City College baseball courses (John Vanoncini) and Columbia Park and San Francisco Boys and Girls Clubs from 1998 to 2010."
--Dan Harrington, May 2014
Collection: Ingleside Branch Archives
Repository: San Francisco Public Library - Ingleside Branch
This photograph was published in the Illustrated Chronicle on the 8th of September 1915.
During the Great War the Illustrated Chronicle published photographs of soldiers and sailors from Newcastle and the North East of England, which had been in the news. The photographs were sent in by relatives and give us a glimpse into the past.
The physical collection held by Newcastle Libraries comprises bound volumes of the newspaper from 1910 to 1925. We are keen to find out more about the people in the photographs. If you recognise anyone in the images and have any stories and information to add please comment below.
Copies of this photograph may be ordered from us, for more information see: www.newcastle.gov.uk/tlt Please make a note of the image reference number above to help speed up your order.
Once again... VISION Magazine - the leading Art Fashion magazine in China- gave me a part including an interview in their project - me representing Moscow among some other world metropols which are Tokyo, Paris, Berlin, London and New York. The theme of the project was the characters of metropols and how the photograhers capture it. Why they chose me? I also asked this question. According to the Editor's words; my images show the real essence of the city not only by itself but through the moments and emotions of the inhabitants, all together defining a character to the city in an honest way. I'm highly honored and happy that I'm doing something right good. :) P.S : I definitely would select different pictures however they've asked 60-70 shots and finally these were chosen for the final layout.
© Jeanne Madic
This photo has been published in SHOTS Magazine n° 125. If interested, you can order a copy here: shotsmag.com/ci.htm
It is also available as a photo print on my e-store: store.vanishingtwins.co.uk/118-br%C3%BCges-la-morte-.html
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on friday, october 4, 2013, we had an exciting live performance by schoolly D, cypress junkies and imiskoumbria. supporting musicians were kostas karavolas, guitarist with prejudice reborn, don freaka of skull records, tiny jackal, all organized by george zervos at fuzz live music club.
you can see the complete set of pictures on my flickr set.
The Postcard
An S.B. Series greetings postcard published by Solomon Bros. Ltd. of Graphic House, New North Road, London.
The card was posted on Wednesday the 21st. June 1916 to:
Mrs. W. H. Clarke,
3 Newby St.,
Wandsworth Road,
Clapham,
London SW.
The message on the back of the card was as follows:
"Dear Horrie,
Just to wish you many happy
returns and good luck.
So sorry I have not written
before I am rather busy now.
Have you heard from Will?
I owe him a letter I think.
When does he come home?
Elsie is coming to see you
tomorrow evening.
Love from all, Kate".
The Battle of Carrizal
So what else happened on the day that Kate posted the card to Horrie?
Well, on the 21st. June 1916, close to 100 United States Cavalry and militia loyal to Venustiano Carranza clashed at the town of Carrizal, Chihuahua, Mexico.
The battle resulted in 14 Americans killed, 39 wounded and 24 captured, with 27 Mexicans being killed and 11 wounded.
Joseph Bamford
The day also marked the birth in Uttoxeter, Staffordshire of Joseph Cyril Bamford CBE, British business executive and founder of the multinational JCB manufacturing company, manufacturing heavy plant.
Biography of Joseph Bamford
Joseph Bamford was born into a recusant Catholic family which owned Bamfords Ltd., an agricultural engineering business.
Joseph's great grandfather Henry Bamford was born in Yoxall, and had built up his own ironmongery business, which by 1881 employed 50 men, 10 boys and 3 women.
Bamfords International Farm Machinery became one of the country's major agricultural equipment suppliers, famous for its balers, rakes, hay turners, hay wufflers, mangold cutters, and standing engines, which were exported all over the world. The company eventually ceased trading in 1986.
After attending Stonyhurst College, Joseph joined the Alfred Herbert company in Coventry, at the time the UK's largest machine-tool manufacturer, and rose to represent the firm in Ghana.
He returned home in 1938 to join the family firm, but in 1941 was called up by the RAF to serve in World War II. Working in supply and logistics, he returned to the African Gold Coast, to run a staging post for USAF planes being ferried to the Middle East.
JCB
On returning home in 1944, Bamford initially worked for English Electric developing electric welding equipment in Stafford. A short return stint with the family firm proved too stifling, and his Uncle Henry released him, saying he thought:
"Joe has little future ahead of him."
After selling Brylcreem for a short while, in October 1945 Bamford rented a 10 feet (3 m) by 15 feet lock-up garage for 30 shillings (£1.50) a week, and made a farm trailer from scrap steel and war surplus Jeep axles, using a prototype electric welder bought for £2-10s (= £2.50).
He opened for business on the day his first son, Anthony, was born, and sold the trailer for £45 and a cart, which he also repaired and sold for another £45.
Having no interest in taking over rival businesses, Joseph's philosophy was:
"Focus on what you do best, be innovative,
and re-invest in product development and
the latest manufacturing technologies."
His strategy resulted in a series of market-leading innovations:
-- 1948 – Introduced the first hydraulic tipping trailer in Europe.
-- 1950 – Moved to an old cheese factory in Rocester, Uttoxeter, where the workforce totalled six.
-- 1951 – Began painting his machinery yellow.
-- 1953 – Brought out his breakthrough product, the backhoe loader.
-- 1957 – Brought out the "Hydra-Digga", incorporating the excavator and the major loader as a single all-purpose tool which was useful for both the agricultural as well as construction industry, which JCB grew with.
-- 1958 -- Bought ten motor-scooters with the number plates JCB1 to JCB10, to get their number plates to transfer to his firm's vehicles.
-- 1991 – Brought out the JCB Fastrac high speed agricultural tractor.
With exports to the United States beginning, profits increased from 1960 onwards. JCB won seven Queen's Awards for Exports as its sales spread to more than 130 countries around the world, while Bamford himself was appointed a CBE for Services to Export in 1969.
In 1993, he became the first British citizen to be honoured in the Association of Equipment Manufacturers Hall of Fame, and remained the only British inductee until his son Anthony was inducted in 2008.
Marketing
What made Bamford different from many engineers was that he was also a marketeer. Bamford personally demanded to know daily from his staff how many "JCB Yellow" vehicles were off the road awaiting spares. Bamford created an image that JCBs were there to work, and if an owner-operator's machine was down, then Bamford wanted to know about it—which gained him 95% of the owner-operator market in the UK.
Bamford placed a 12 V socket into the cab of his vehicles, and delivered the first 100 personally, arriving in his Rolls Royce with number plate JCB1.
One of the first Lear jets in Europe was purchased to fly in non-UK customers (the fleet has since got larger), who were met by another European first, a stretched Cadillac with the same number of seats as the jet. Bamford also conceived the "Dancing Diggers," whose 1999 display in Las Vegas stopped the gamblers.
Personal Style
A non-smoking teetotaller, who was so careful with his money that he claimed his wife still made their own curtains, Bamford worked from 09:00 until 23:00 every day. He saw his role in life to be like the Nonconformist Cadbury and Lever families.
He built Rocester along the lines of Bournville and Port Sunlight into an effective marketing home for the company, and an efficient production centre and a virtual "home" for his employees.
He saw no need to recognise trade unions. The Rocester works were surrounded by 10,000 acres (40 km2) of landscaped grounds in which his company's employees could shoot, fish, swim, and sail.
Bamford paid more than fair wages, which rose regularly, and annual bonuses based on reports of individual worth. In 1967 Bamford stood on a farm cart and handed out personal cheques totalling £250,000.
This extraordinary focus in return gave unprecedented levels of workforce flexibility, with the average JCB employee through the strike-dominated 1970's and early 1980's, being seven times more productive than the average British manufacturing worker.
Retirement
In 1975, Bamford left his wife Marjorie (née Griffin – married 1941), handed over the business to their two sons, and set up home with his secretary, Jayne Ellis, in Switzerland as tax exiles.
He continued to design both boats and diesel engines. Bamford was awarded the honorary degree of a Doctor of Technology from both Loughborough University in 1989 and Keele University in 2000.
The Death and Legacy of Joseph Bamford
Bamford died at the age of 84 in a London clinic on the 1st. March 2001.
At his death, JCB was the largest privately-owned engineering company in Great Britain, employing 4,500 people and manufacturing 30,000 machines a year in 12 factories on three continents.
JCB had revenues of £850m in 1999, earned from 140 countries.
Joseph's portraits by Lucinda Douglas-Menzies and Leslie Smithers (whilst he was still the head of his JCB empire) are in the National Portrait Gallery.
William B. Ruger
Also born on that day was William B. Ruger, an American inventor who developed the Ruger Standard firearm.
William, who was born in New York City, was co-founder of Sturm, Ruger & Co. William died in 2002.
Published Author: Robert Boyd - as photographed for his book jacket - " The Road To Nowhere."
Robert's non-fiction book on Canadiana, was published in 06 or 07 by local publishing firm - Granvile Island Publishing.
My happy homeschooler loved the book and found it very fascinating!
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This photograph was published in the Illustrated Chronicle on the 2nd of October 1915.
During the Great War the Illustrated Chronicle published photographs of soldiers and sailors from Newcastle and the North East of England, which had been in the news. The photographs were sent in by relatives and give us a glimpse into the past.
The physical collection held by Newcastle Libraries comprises bound volumes of the newspaper from 1910 to 1925. We are keen to find out more about the people in the photographs. If you recognise anyone in the images please comment below.
Copies of this photograph may be ordered from us, for more information see: www.newcastle.gov.uk/tlt Please make a note of the image reference number above to help speed up your order.