Fremantle Gas and Coke Company

Fremantle Gas and Coke Company was a Western Australian company based in Fremantle that was bought out by the Western Australian State Electricity Commission in 1986—a component event of the WA Inc issues of the time.

Fremantle Gas and Coke Company Limited
Type Public
ASX: FGC
IndustryGas Production
FateBought out by the Western Australian State Electricity Commission
FoundedJuly 29, 1885 (1885-07-29)
FounderRS Newbald[1]
Defunct1986 (1986)
Headquarters
Fremantle
,
Australia
Area served
Western Australia
ServicesGas

It commenced operation in 1885 to power and light Fremantle.[2][3]

The company had a siding from the Fremantle railway marshalling yard in the early twentieth century.

In 1952 the company constructed a new gas producer.[4] The gasworks' main feature was its gas holding domes, which were removed in the 1980s.[5]

In the 1960s the Fremantle Gas and Coke company served 14,440 customers in a separate market zone from the State Electricity Commission, which provided the rest of the Perth metropolitan area.[6]

Notes
  1. "Fremantle Gas and Coke Coy Ltd" (PDF). State Library of Western Australia.
  2. Uren, Malcolm (1966), Let there be light and heat and power : the history of the Fremantle Gas and Coke Company Limited (1885-1953), Fremantle Gas and Coke Co, retrieved 9 December 2015
  3. for a sequence of newspaper reports about the annual general meetings see - http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/result?q=Fremantle+Gas+and+Coke
  4. Illustrations Ltd; HRRC (1952), Fremantle Gas & Coke Co. Ltd. factory construction of new gas producer, retrieved 9 December 2015
  5. Illustrations Ltd; HRRC (1958), Fremantle Gas and Coke Company [picture], retrieved 9 December 2015
  6. Western Australia. Metropolitan Region Planning Authority; Harvey, Frank, 1913-; Perth (W.A. : Municipality). Town Planning Department (1968), Perth: region & people, Metropolitan Planning Authority, retrieved 9 December 2015CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - map of Public Utilities on page 51, stats from page 50 for the year 1965/1966
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