Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,259 pages of information and 244,500 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

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A. Blackburn and Co

From Graces Guide

A. Blackburn and Co of Tofts Mill, Cleckheaton, Yorkshire. Machine makers and produced a few cars.

See Abel Blackburn and Joseph Roberts Tetlow

1906-08 They built 10 hp two-cylinder and 20hp four-cylinder bus chassis for three years until 1908.

Also built twelve Norfolk cars. These had 10 or 12 h.p. engines.

1910 Advertising as machine makers.[1]

1915 Registered as a private company. 'A. Blackburn and Co. (Limited) have been registered as a private company with a capital of £10,000 in £1 shares, to take over the business carried on at Tofu Mill, Cleckheaton, by J. R. Tatlow and A. Blackburn as A. Blackburn and Co., and to act as card setting and other machine makers, founders, engineers, tool makers, metal workers, etc. The first directors are A. Blackburn and others to be nominated by Critchley, Sharp and Tetlow, (Ltd.); S. Haley and Sons (Ltd.); Watson Brothers, of Halifax; and A. Duckworth and Sons, Rochdale.'[2]

1921 A. Blackburn and Co, High Street Mills, Cleckheaton. [3]

1923 Engineers and Fine Machinery Makers. [4]

1924 Card Clothing and Belting acquired part of the company.[5]

Early Motor Registrations


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Sources of Information

  1. Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Monday 07 February 1910
  2. Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Tuesday 12 October 1915
  3. Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Wednesday 12 January 1921
  4. Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Friday 24 August 1923
  5. Halifax Evening Courier - Monday 17 March 1924
  • Ian Allan - British Buses Since 1900 - Aldridge and Morris