Allen Taylor & Company

Allen Taylor & Company is a company in Australia, which is a subsidiary of Boral Timber.[1] The company was founded by Allen Arthur Taylor in 1893, based at Rozelle.

By the time Taylor was knighted in 1911, he was on the board of numerous companies. He was an Alderman and Mayor of the Annandale Borough, an Alderman and Lord Mayor of Sydney Municipal Council and a Member of the NSW Legislative Council. Three early Presscopy Letter books of Allen Taylor and Co are in the Noel Butlin Archives at the ANU .

The company once owned a number of ships as part of its timber business.

Former ships

Ship Built Builder Service Gross Tonnage Notes
Ability 1910 140 tons Scuttled in 1960.
Allenwood 1920 Ernest Wright, Tuncurry 1920–1951 398 tons Beached upon Bird Island Beach, New South Wales in 1951 and broken up in situ.
Annandale 1899 108 tons 1907 Floundered at sea on a voyage from Sydney to Bellinger river
Australia 1897 112 tons
Bellinger 1902 229 tons
Boomerang 1898 228 tons
Candidate 1885 86 tons
Pyrmont 1903 215 tons Wrecked near Dedele, New Guinea in April 1913.
Comboyne 1911 John Wright (Snr) & Ernst Wright, Tuncurry 1911–1920 281 tons Wrecked off Bass Point, Shellharbour, New South Wales on the 27 November 1920.
Croki 303 tons
Tottie 1890 74 tons
Wandra 1907 Denis Sullivan, Coopernook 1907–1915 164 tons Wrecked off Drum and Drumsticks, Jervis Bay, New South Wales on 15 November 1915

Notes

  1. "Allen Taylor & Company Ltd (a subsidiary of Boral Timber) - proposed acquisition of J & JL Davis Pty Ltd". Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. Retrieved 25 November 2011.