Karl Pallo (1896–1986) was a New Zealand importer, manufacturing engineer and businessman. He was born in
Reinu,
Estonia
Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, a ...
in 1896. He was an early supplier of
petrol pumps to airports and became a manufacturer of pumps for service stations.
The pumps featured an innovative design including a dial that showed the amount of petrol delivered, easing the use of pumps for consumers.
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1896 births
1986 deaths
20th-century New Zealand businesspeople
Estonian emigrants to New Zealand
People from Saarde Parish
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