Fremantle Gas and Coke Company explained

Fremantle Gas and Coke Company Limited
Type:Public
Founder:RS Newbald[1]
Industry:Gas Production
Fate:Bought out by the Western Australian State Electricity Commission
Hq Location City:Fremantle
Hq Location Country:Australia
Area Served:Western Australia
Services:Gas

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.

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

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. The gasworks' main feature was its gas holding domes, which were removed in the 1980s.

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.[3]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Fremantle Gas and Coke Coy Ltd. State Library of Western Australia.
  2. for a sequence of newspaper reports about the annual general meetings see - http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/result?q=Fremantle+Gas+and+Coke
  3. - map of Public Utilities on page 51, stats from page 50 for the year 1965/1966