In 1866, Timothy purchased Bay 6 in the mutton section. All four of his sons joined their father to work at Glebe Island. Timothy’s grand-daughter, Grace Margaret, married Vincent Scott in 1921. He and Grace’s father began a wholesale and retail butchering business at 786 George Street, Sydney.

The partnership dissolved. Vincent’s initiative did not. He restarted the business from an old Studebaker truck. In 1933, Vincent Scott began to buy, slaughter and deliver cows and calves as a one man operation with three butcher clients.

By 1949, he had been joined by his son, Tibby, and son-in-law, Barry Noble. A small contingent of employees was hired shortly after. In 1952 GM Scott became a registered company. Barry Noble owned 52%. A growing wholesale business operated at Homebush in Sydney, 23 butcher shops were acquired and a large cattle property was purchased in Tumut, NSW. When Australia fell into recession in the 1980s, the business was astutely downsized. Barry Noble and his son, Peter, bought the remaining 48% of the business. A small country abattoir was acquired.

That abattoir is now the $25m p.a. operation known as GM Scott.