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Former power company in Perth, Western Australia

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 It had plant in East Perth that was constructed in 1886, and superseded by new operators and plant in 1922.

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

In the 1890s there were various governmental actions regarding the company.

The company was in liquidation in 1913.

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.

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(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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