Australian Estates Company Ltd

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Agent TypeOrganisationIdentifierUMA-AG-000001460Activities & OccupationsStock and station agentsHistoryIn 1884 the business William Sloan & Co. (est. in Melbourne in 1858) became the Union Mortgage & Agency Co. of Australia Ltd (UM&A). The firm's domicile was transferred in 1886 to the UK, where a new company under the same name was formed and the old company liquidated. Originally wool and produce-selling brokers and stock and station agents, it moved into the sugar industry.
Registered in England during 1894 as The Australian Estates & Mortgage Co. Ltd. with its Australian head office in Melbourne, the company acquired by takeover assets in New South Wales and Queensland formerly held by the Union Mortgage and Agency Co. of Australia Ltd. Operations extended to sugar, wool, livestock and property selling, together with merchandising, insurance and general agency work in all eastern Australian states. The present name was adopted in 1936.
After World War 2 it underwent extensive expansion and growth. Australian Estates was taken over by CSR Ltd in 1975.
One of the most prominent and certainly the longest serving executive was G.S. Colman, the Australian General Manager from 1928-1969.
William Taylor was also a director of the company, and when he died in 1903, the company ran his estate in trust. Taylor had interests in various properties, including Overnewton at Keilor (and now the site of Taylor’s Lakes in Victoria), Euston on the Murray River, and Manfred, Garnpang, Salisbury Downs, and Bootra, all in NSW.Search records of this agent

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Date1894-1975

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Other NamesAustralian Estates & Mortgage Co. Ltd

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