JCB has pictures too: http://www.jcb.co.uk/products/construc/index.htm Regards, Ben ================================================================== Ben Knox ben@dircon.net Direct Connection On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, 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

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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-