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Fremantle Gas and Coke Company Limited

The factory on Cantonment Street in 1953
Company type	Public
Traded as	ASX: FGC
Industry	Gas Production
Founded	29 July 1885
Founder	RS Newbald
Defunct	1986
Fate	Sold to State Energy Commission of Western Australia
Headquarters	Fremantle, Western Australia
Area served	Western Australia
Products	Gas

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.

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. In 1986, it was purchased by the State Energy Commission of Western Australia which later attracted the interest of the WA Inc royal commission.

References

1. 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
2. "Fremantle Gas and Coke Coy Ltd" (PDF). State Library of Western Australia.
3. Illustrations Ltd; HRRC (1952), Fremantle Gas & Coke Co. Ltd. factory construction of new gas producer, retrieved 9 December 2015
4. Illustrations Ltd; HRRC (1958), Fremantle Gas and Coke Company [picture], retrieved 9 December 2015
5. 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 2015{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - map of Public Utilities on page 51, stats from page 50 for the year 1965/1966
6. WA Inc hearings to open with Fremantle Gas and Coke deal Australian Financial Review 19 February 1991

• Companies based in Perth, Western Australia
• Companies formerly listed on the Australian Securities Exchange
• Defunct electric power companies of Australia
• Defunct energy companies of Australia
• Defunct utility companies of Western Australia
• Energy companies established in 1888
• Energy companies disestablished in 1986
• Fremantle
• Natural gas companies of Australia
• 1888 establishments in Australia
• 1986 disestablishments in Australia