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1906 Horizontal single cylinder 40 HP steam engine, driving workshop machinery at Hearl, Heaton and Co., Crown Street Works, Liversedge. Photographed by George Watkins in 1966 <ref>'Stationary Steam Engines of Great Britain: Volume 1: Yorkshire'. Landmark Publishing Ltd., 2000</ref>.  Now preserved at [[Bradford Industrial Museum]] (see photo).
1906 Horizontal single cylinder 40 HP steam engine, driving workshop machinery at Hearl, Heaton and Co., Crown Street Works, Liversedge. Photographed by George Watkins in 1966 <ref>'Stationary Steam Engines of Great Britain: Volume 1: Yorkshire'. Landmark Publishing Ltd., 2000</ref>.  Now preserved at [[Bradford Industrial Museum]] (see photo).
1917 A 10 HP J. B. Clabour horizontal engine was included in the dismantling sale at Victoria Chemical Works and Timber Yard, Clarence Road, Hunslet. <ref>Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Saturday 17 March 1917</ref>


1923 A 50 HP J. B. Clabour horizontal engine was included in the sale of [[Chald Lane Colour Works]], Wakefield <ref>Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Saturday 14 July 1923</ref>  
1923 A 50 HP J. B. Clabour horizontal engine was included in the sale of [[Chald Lane Colour Works]], Wakefield <ref>Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Saturday 14 July 1923</ref>  
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1927 An engine by Clabour was included in the sale of equipment at Cantley Mill, near Doncaster.<ref> Leeds Mercury, 20 May 1927 </ref>
1927 An engine by Clabour was included in the sale of equipment at Cantley Mill, near Doncaster.<ref> Leeds Mercury, 20 May 1927 </ref>


1929 'MR. J. A. CLABOUR, GUISELEY. The death occurred yesterday of Mr. James A. Clabour, of Oxford House, Guiseley, principal the firm of J. B. Clabour, engineers, Guiseley. Mr. Clabour, who was in his 59th year, was apparently in his usual health on Tuesday, and became ill early yesterday. The business with which he was associated was established by his father, the late Mr. J. B. Clabour. He leaves a widow and one son and daughter.'<ref> Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, 2 May 1929</ref>
1929 'MR. J. A. CLABOUR, GUISELEY. The death occurred yesterday of Mr. [[James Arthur Clabour|James A. Clabour]], of Oxford House, Guiseley, principal the firm of J. B. Clabour, engineers, Guiseley. Mr. Clabour, who was in his 59th year, was apparently in his usual health on Tuesday, and became ill early yesterday. The business with which he was associated was established by his father, the late Mr. J. B. Clabour. He leaves a widow and one son and daughter.'<ref> Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, 2 May 1929</ref>


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1885 5 HP engine running on compressed air at Bradford Industrial Museum
1906 40 HP engine running on compressed air at Bradford Industrial Museum
Promotional literature from J. B. Clabour
Promotional literature from J. B. Clabour

J. B. Clabour of Guiseley, near Leeds

Established 1874

Early owners were James Bowling Clabour and James Arthur Clabour

Steam engines and steam-driven vacuum pumps

1885 5 HP horizontal steam engine. Formerly drove machinery in mechanics' workshop of T. D. Whitfield and Sond of Oak Lea Mill, Bradford. On display at Bradford Industrial Museum (see photo).

1906 Horizontal single cylinder 40 HP steam engine, driving workshop machinery at Hearl, Heaton and Co., Crown Street Works, Liversedge. Photographed by George Watkins in 1966 [1]. Now preserved at Bradford Industrial Museum (see photo).

1917 A 10 HP J. B. Clabour horizontal engine was included in the dismantling sale at Victoria Chemical Works and Timber Yard, Clarence Road, Hunslet. [2]

1923 A 50 HP J. B. Clabour horizontal engine was included in the sale of Chald Lane Colour Works, Wakefield [3]

1927 An engine by Clabour was included in the sale of equipment at Cantley Mill, near Doncaster.[4]

1929 'MR. J. A. CLABOUR, GUISELEY. The death occurred yesterday of Mr. James A. Clabour, of Oxford House, Guiseley, principal the firm of J. B. Clabour, engineers, Guiseley. Mr. Clabour, who was in his 59th year, was apparently in his usual health on Tuesday, and became ill early yesterday. The business with which he was associated was established by his father, the late Mr. J. B. Clabour. He leaves a widow and one son and daughter.'[5]

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Sources of Information

  1. 'Stationary Steam Engines of Great Britain: Volume 1: Yorkshire'. Landmark Publishing Ltd., 2000
  2. Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Saturday 17 March 1917
  3. Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Saturday 14 July 1923
  4. Leeds Mercury, 20 May 1927
  5. Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, 2 May 1929
  • Canadian Journal of Commerce, 6th December 1901
  • Stationary Steam Engines of Great Britain by George Watkins. Vol 10