The King was greeted by cheering crowds and waving flags as he visited the world headquarters of JCB in Staffordshire, to mark the company's 80th birthday.Charles met employees, apprentices and their families and toured the construction equipment company's factory in Rocester on Monday.He was greeted by Lord and Lady Bamford before walking the assembly line of the backhoe loader, a digger invented by JCB's founder, the late Joseph Cyril Bamford.He helped fit a tyre to the machine before being sh

The King was greeted by cheering crowds and waving flags as he visited the world headquarters of JCB in Staffordshire, to mark the company's 80th birthday.Charles met employees, apprentices and their families and toured the construction equipment company's factory in Rocester on Monday.He was greeted by Lord and Lady Bamford before walking the assembly line of the backhoe loader, a digger invented by JCB's founder, the late Joseph Cyril Bamford.He helped fit a tyre to the machine before being shown how to refuel JCB's recently developed hydrogen-powered combustion engine.