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 166,627 pages of information and 246,591 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Tinker, Shenton and Co

From Graces Guide
110-year old boiler Queen Street Mill Museum
One of a pair of boilers at the National Waterways Museum, Ellesmere Port
June 1888. Duplex boiler.
December 1889.

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July 1895.

of Hyde Boiler Works, Hyde

John Shenton, Richard Shenton and George Tinker

1851 Company established.

1872 Incorporated as a Limited Company by James Shenton, Richard Shenton and George James Tinker.

1887 George Tinker left the company to set up with his brother James the company Tinkers

1914 Specialities: High-pressure Steam Boilers, Boiler Fittings etc. Employees 250. [1]

1930 Business and premises advertised for sale.[2]

1930 Company placed into voluntary liquidation.[3]

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Sources of Information

  1. 1914 Whitakers Red Book
  2. Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - 11 January 1930
  3. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/33621/page/4135