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[[Image: Clabour01.jpg|thumb| 1906 40 HP engine running on compressed air at Bradford Industrial Museum]]
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of Guiseley, near Leeds
J B Clabour of Guiseley, near Leeds


* Established 1874
* Established 1874

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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

J B Clabour of Guiseley, near Leeds

  • Established 1874
  • 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).


Sources of Information

  • Canadian Journal of Commerce, 6th December 1901
  • Stationary Steam Engines of Great Britain by George Watkins. Vol 10
  1. 'Stationary Steam Engines of Great Britain: Volume 1: Yorkshire'. Landmark Publishing Ltd., 2000