Tinker, Shenton & Co

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

{{Infobox company

| name = Tinker, Shenton and Company

| logo =

| logo_caption =

| image =

| image_caption =

| type =

| traded_as =

| industry = Boilermaking

| fate =

| predecessor =

| successor =

| foundation = {{Start date|1872}}

| founder =

| defunct = {{End date|1928}}

| location_city = Hyde, Cheshire

| location_country = England

| key_people =

| products =

| brands =

| production =

| owner =

| num_employees =

| parent =

| divisions =

| subsid =

}}

Tinker, Shenton and Company, based at Hyde Boiler Works, Hyde, Cheshire (now in Tameside), England, were a firm of boilermakers, founded in 1872. The firm was at that date incorporated as a Limited Company by James Shenton, Richard Shenton and George James Tinker.{{cite web|url=http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Tinker,_Shenton_and_Co|work=Grace's Guide|access-date=10 May 2014|date=19 January 2014|title=Tinker, Shenton and Co}}

Initially based at a workshop on John Street, Hyde, the firm soon moved to Hyde Boiler Works on Furnace Street in the Flowery Field area,{{Cite book|url=http://cheshiredirectories.manuscripteye.com/pdf/1910/04a/section.pdf |title=Kelly's Cheshire professional and trades directory|year=1910|page=811}} from where they operated until the closure of the firm in 1928.{{cite journal|last=McEwen|first=Alan|title=Brass for the boiler|journal=Old Glory|date=May 2011|pages=62–64|url=http://www.oldglory.co.uk/}}

File:Queen Street Mill - Boiler House - geograph.org.uk - 528569.jpg ]]

Tinker, Shenton and Company manufactured Lancashire and Cornish steam boilers. Well-preserved examples of their Lancashire boilers exist at both the Ellesmere Port Boat Museum and the Queen Street Mill Textile Museum in Burnley, Lancashire, which has a pair.