Fremantle Gas and Coke Company

The Fremantle Gas and Coke Company was a Western Australian company based in Fremantle.

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

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]