Perth Gas Company was a gas producer in Perth, Western Australia. It had plant in East Perth that was constructed in 1886, and superseded by new operators and plant in 1922.[1]

The company conducted a range of improvements and modifications to its works.[2]

In the 1890s there were various governmental actions regarding the company.[3][4]

The company was in liquidation in 1913.[5]

It was the predecessor to the East Perth Gas Works which established its operations a decade later.

Records of the company have survived in archival institutions.[6][7][8]

References

  1. ↑ Edmonds, Leigh (2000), Cathedrals of power : a short history of the power-generating infrastructure in Western Australia 1912-1999, University of Western Australia Press, ISBN 978-1-876268-42-8
  2. ↑ Hogarth, Clement (1908), Perth town lot P8, showing improvements, Registrar of Titles (?)], retrieved 7 June 2018 - noting from details in trove: Plan of lot no. 1 of Perth town lot P8 showing improvements (ground plan of Perth Gas Company's works), scale 1 in. = 10 links; Pencil sketch of Perth Gas Company's works with additional building interior information; Perth Gas Company's buildings (pencil sections of engine and boiler house workshop and store, side and end plans of cooling tower), scale 1/8[links?](ca. 1:63)
  3. ↑ Western Australia. Select Committee Appointed to Consider the Perth Gas Company's Act Further Amendment Bill; Leake, George, 1856-1902 (1897), Report of the Select Committee of the Legislative Assembly Appointed to Consider the Perth Gas Company's Act Further Amendment Bill, Govt. Printer, retrieved 7 June 2018{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  4. ↑ Western Australia. Laws, statutes, etc (1898), Private Acts of Parliament [connected with the] Perth Gas Company, Limited, W.A, Sands & McDougal, printers, retrieved 7 June 2018{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  5. ↑ "PERTH GAS COMPANY". The Observer. Vol. LXIX, no. 5, 413. South Australia. 30 November 1912. p. 56. Retrieved 7 June 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
  6. ↑ Perth Gas Company (1909), Records, 1909-1913, retrieved 7 June 2018
  7. ↑ Perth Gas Company (1908), Legal documents, 1908, retrieved 7 June 2018
  8. ↑ Perth Gas Company (1882), Minute books, 1882-1883, retrieved 7 June 2018
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