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Australian Mercantile Land & Finance Company Limited (1910 - )

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1910
Functions
Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing and Finance and Insurance

Summary

The Australian Mortgage Land & Finance Company was registered in England in 1863, the first Australian Office being opened in Brisbane (as Central Northern Queensland Land Company). The Queensland operations proving unsuccessful, the business was moved to Melbourne with the purchase of Ronald Gibbs & Co in 1865. The Brisbane branch was reopened in 1903, and a Townsville Branch in 1924 (to 1934). The Company's name was changed in 1910 to Australian Mercantile Land & Finance Co (AML&F). In 1981 AML&F acquired the pastoral agency business of Australian Estates from CSR Ltd.

In 1971 AML&F was acquired by Woodhall Trust plc (UK), which in turn was taken over by Elders IXL in 1982.

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Timeline

 1857 - 1875 C.J. Dennys & Company
       1875 - 1881 Dennys Lacelles & Company
             1881 - 1912 Dennys Lacelles, Austin & Company
                   1863 - 1910 Australian Mortgage Land and Finance Company Limited
                   1912 - 1978? Dennys Lascelles Limited
                         1910 - Australian Mercantile Land & Finance Company Limited

Archival resources

John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, (formerly John Oxley Library, Manuscripts and Business Records Collection)

  • Australian Mercantile Land & Finance Company Limited records, 1921 - 1960, OM.AW; John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, (formerly John Oxley Library, Manuscripts and Business Records Collection). Details

Noel Butlin Archives Centre, Australian National University, (formerly Archives of Business and Labour)

  • Australian Mercantile Land & Finance Company Limited records, 1856 - 1984, Various, contact Archive for details; Noel Butlin Archives Centre, Australian National University, (formerly Archives of Business and Labour). Details

Published resources

Books

  • Bailey, John Donnson, A hundred years of pastoral banking: a history of the Australian Mercantile Land and Finance Company, 1863-1963, Oxford University Press, London, 1966, 292 pp. Details
  • Ronald, H.B., Wool before the wind: a history of the Ronald family and the Australian Mercantile Land and Finance Company, Landvale Enterprises, South Yarra, Victoria, 1987. Details
  • Ronald, Heather B., Wool before the wind: a history of the Ronald family and the Australian Mercantile Land and Finance Company, Landvale Enterprises, South Yarra, Victoria, 1987. Details

Book Sections

  • Linton, J. Eddis, 'Some background to the history of a pastoral company', in Birch, Aland and Macmillan, David S. (eds), Wealth & Progress. Studies in Australian Business History, Angus & Robertson, Australia, 1967, pp. 149-159. Details

See also

  • Cannon, Michael, The Land Boomers. The complete illustrated history, Lloyd O'Neil Pty Ltd, South Yarra, Victoria, 1986, 409 pp. Details

Bruce A. Smith

Created: 1 December 1999, Last modified: 14 October 2010