Records [manuscript].

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Records [manuscript].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/225757107

Diaries, notebooks and memoranda, correspondence, specifications, reports, tables, blueprints and graphs, personal accounting records, photographs, pamphlets and newspaper cuttings. This is a collection of personal papers, strong in gas technology and its history, particularly in Australia as well as England and the Continent. Sub-groups include material concerning the Birmingham Gas Works, Metropolitan Gas Co., Melbourne, Colonial Gas Association Ltd., Australian Gaslight Co., Sydney, South Australian Gas Co. etc.

2 m. 40 cm.

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Australian Gas Light Company

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The Australian Gas Light Company was formed in Sydney in 1837. After equipment was brought from England and buildings constructed in Jenkins Street, Darling Harbour, operations were commenced in 1841. Demand for gas led to the laying of mains and the building of an additional manufacturing plant at Mortlake. In 1890 the company purchased the goodwill and property of the Parramatta Gas Company and thus further extend its operations. From the description of Records [manuscript]. (Libra...

Colonial Gas Association (Vic.)

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Birmingham Gas Works.

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Metropolitan Gas Company (Melbourne, Vic.)

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South Australian Gas Company (1861-1988)

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Hunt, Phillip Charles Holmes, 1874-1941.

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Gas engineer, consultant and Company Director. Superintendant City of Birmingham Gas Works 1899. Assistant Engineer Metropolitan Gas Co., Melbourne, 1902. 1913 Chairman and later Managing Director local board, Colonial Gas Association Ltd., and of the Head Office when transferred from London to Melbourne, 1924, until death. Director various companies. From the description of Records [manuscript]. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225757107 ...