West Midlands Gas Board
Former UK state-owed utility
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The West Midlands Gas Board was a state-owned utility area gas board providing gas for light and heat to industries and homes in parts of Cheshire, Herefordshire, Leicestershire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire (including Birmingham) and Worcestershire.
| State-owned utility overview | |
|---|---|
| Formed | 1 May 1949 |
| Dissolved | 1 January 1973 |
| Type | Gas board |
| Status | Dissolved |
| Headquarters | Wharf Lane, Solihull |
It was established on 1 May 1949 under the terms of the Gas Act 1948,[1] and dissolved in 1973 when it became a region of the newly formed British Gas Corporation, British Gas West Midlands, as a result of the Gas Act 1972.
Existing gas suppliers taken over
Under the Gas (Allocation of Undertakings to Area Boards and Gas Council) Order 1949 (SI 1949/742), the West Midlands Gas Board took over existing local authority and privately owned gas production and supply utilities in its area:[2]
- Albrighton Gas Company
- Atherstone Gas Light and Coke Company
- Bewdley Gas Company
- Bilston Gas Light and Coke Company
- Birmingham Corporation
- Bridgnorth Corporation
- Bromsgrove Gaslight and Coke Company
- Bromyard Gas Company
- Cannock District Gas Company
- Chasetown Gas Company
- Cheadle and Churnet Valley Gas Company
- Church Stretton Gas Company
- Colwall Gas Company
- Congleton Corporation
- Coventry Corporation
- Cradley Heath Gas Company
- Droitwich Corporation
- Dudley Brierley Hill and District Gas Company
- Ellesmere Urban District Council
- Gas Consolidation
- Halesowen Gas Company
- Henley in Arden Gas Coal and Coke Company
- Hereford Corporation
- Hinckley Urban District Council
- Iron Bridge and District Gas Company
- Kidderminster Gas Company
- Kidsgrove Gaslight Company
- Leamington Priors Gas Company
- Ledbury Gas, Coal, and Coke Company
- Leek Urban District Council
- Leominster Gas and Coke Company
- Lichfield Gas Company
- Ludlow Union Gas Company
- Malvern Urban District Council
- Market Drayton Gas Company
- Newcastle-under-Lyme Corporation
- Newport (Salop) Urban District Council
- Nuneaton Gas Company
- Oldbury Corporation
- Oswestry Gas Light and Coke Company
- Redditch Gas Company
- Rowley Regis and Blackheath Gas Company
- Rugby Gas Company
- Rugeley Gas Company
- Sedgley Urban District Council
- Shifnal Gas Light Coke Company
- Shipston-on-Stour Gas, Light, Coke and Coal Company
- Shrewsbury Gas Light Company
- Smethwick Corporation
- Solihull Gas Company
- South Staffordshire Mond Gas Company
- Stafford Corporation
- Stoke-on-Trent Corporation
- Stone Gas Light and Coke Company
- Stourbridge Corporation
- Stourport Gas Company
- Stourvale Gas Company
- Stratford-upon-Avon Corporation
- Tamworth Gaslight and Coke Company
- Tenbury Union Gas Company
- Tipton Corporation
- Upton-on-Severn Gas Company
- Uttoxeter Gas Works
- Walsall Corporation Warwick Gas Company
- Wellington (Salop) Gas Company
- Wem Gas-Light and Coke Company
- West Bromwich Corporation West
- Staffordshire Gas Company
- Willenhall Gas Company
- Wolverhampton Gas Company
- Worcester New Gas Light Company
