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.^{[citation needed]} Three early Presscopy Letter books of Allen Taylor and Co are in the Noel Butlin Archives at the ANU ^{[citation needed]}.

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 ^{[citation needed]}
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

^ "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.

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[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.

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