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Albert Toll

Albert Toll

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Albert Frederick Toll (1865–1960) was the founder of Australia and New Zealand's largest transport company, Toll Group and Toll NZ and a former mayor of Wickham, New South Wales.[1][2]

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He founded Toll in 1888, when he hauled coal with a horse and a cart.[3]

He was the father of Australian novelist Dora Birtles and founding president of Lake Macquarie Yacht Club, Victor Toll. A street in the Lake Macquarie suburb Valentine, Albert Street, was named after him.[4]

An A.F. Toll marked Albion vehicle, when the business operated out of Sydney, Newcastle and Cessnock
Opening of A.F. Toll's Storage Depot. 1933

References

  1. [1]
    Moore, Deirdre (1991). Newcastle made him : a memoir of AF Toll. Bob James.
  2. [2]
    Kirkwood, Ian (2015). "Toll Holdings Newcastle roots". Newcastle Herald.
  3. [3]
    Watson, Chad (16 April 2006). "$150m for Corrigan, not two cents for Toll family". The Sydney Morning Herald. Fairfax Media. Archived from the original on 9 October 2007.
  4. [4]
    "Albert Street". Lake Mac Libraries.


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