The Fremantle Gas and Coke Company was a Western Australian company based in Fremantle.
History
The Fremantle Gas and Coke Company commenced operation in 1885 to power and light Fremantle.[1][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.[3] The gasworks' main feature was its gas holding domes, which were removed in the 1970s.[4][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] In 1986, it was purchased by the State Energy Commission of Western Australia which later attracted the interest of the WA Inc royal commission.[7]
References
- 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, 1966, retrieved 9 December 2015^
- Fremantle Gas and Coke Coy Ltd State Library of Western Australia^
- Fremantle Gas & Coke Co. Ltd. factory construction of new gas producer 1952, retrieved 9 December 2015^
- Fremantle Gas and Coke Company [picture] 1958, retrieved 9 December 2015^
- Landgate Map Viewer Plus map-viewer-plus.app.landgate.wa.gov.au, retrieved 2025-04-28^
- - map of Public Utilities on page 51, stats from page 50 for the year 1965/1966 Perth: region & people Metropolitan Planning Authority, 1968, retrieved 9 December 2015^
- WA Inc hearings to open with Fremantle Gas and Coke deal Australian Financial Review 19 February 1991^