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The Scottish Australian Company Limited (1856 - )

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Summary

Established in 1840 and incorporated in England in 1856 as The Scottish Australian Investment Co Ltd, name changed in 1933. In 1972, jointly with Industrial Equity Ltd, acquired Pitt, Son & Badgery. (sold to Elder Smith Goldsbrough Mort in 1976). In 1972, on the transfer of the company's tax domicile from London to Sydney the name was changed to The Scottish Australian Holding Company. 1974 Scottish Australian merged with Marra Developments Ltd. The Company was delisted in 1984.

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Published resources

Books

  • MacMillan, David S., The debtor's war: Scottish capitalists and the economic crisis in Australia 1841-1846, F.W. Cheshire, Melbourne, Victoria, 1960, 90 pp. Details

Journal Articles

  • MacMillan, David S., 'The Scottish Australian Company and pastoral development in Queensland 1860-1890', Royal Historical Society of Queensland Journal, vol. 6, no. 2, 1959-60, pp. 454-478. Details
  • MacMillan, David S., 'The transfer of company control from Scotland to London in the nineteenth century: the case of the Scottish Australian Company', Business History, vol. 12, no. 2, 1970, pp. 102-115. Details

Bruce A. Smith

Created: 21 February 2000, Last modified: 6 April 2010