The presentation marks a hat-trick of Queen’s Awards for this business and honours a 77 per cent growth in overseas sales over three years.

The JCB Loadall is the world’s top-selling brand of telescopic handler. Last year, JCB became the first construction equipment manufacturer in the world to build 100,000 telehandlers.

The Loadall Business Unit was among three within the JCB Group to be honoured with Queen’s Awards for International Trade in 2007. The others were JCB Compact Products, of Cheadle, Staffordshire, and Wrexham-based International Transmissions Ltd, the third party sales arm of JCB Transmissions.

In total, the JCB Group has won an impressive 21 Queen’s Awards since its first in 1969