Looking for info on William Toy and Cars that he built/imported to Australia

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Murray Stack comes up with e remarkable set of photos:
"These photos are from our family records and come from Victoria Australia. I am guessing that they date to around 1900 to as late as 1915 to 1920 as my morther recalled the first time that the car driven by her uncle Will Toy, arrived at Tarnagulla in central Victoria.  My mother was born 1910, so I am guessing that whe must have been at least 5 years old to have remembered the event.

I have have these photos of cars that were built by my mothers uncle William Toy.  The first two he (designed?) and built himself. William Toy was born in 1855 and in one photo, his daughter, Elizabeth Florence, (born 1882) was driving the car.

The inscription on the back of car 1 reads  
"William Toy and Son Builders. Dandenong. Speed 5 to 25 miles per hour. Run with Kerosene at a cost of 1/6 per 100 miles. Price on Application." 

The inscription of the car on the main picture above, only states:  "second car Will Toy made"

The Car number 3 comes with the inscription 
"Will Toy with his wife Elizabeth(nee Nicholls) and children Florence and Frank in his early model automobile" 

Any more information on the cars and Will Toy and his factory at Dandenong (just east of Melbourne) would be appreciated.

 

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