Australian Kerosene Oil Company or 'A.K.O' mined and processed oil shale to produce kerosene, paraffin wax and candles, lubricating oil and greases, and other petroleum-based products, in New South Wa
Joadja works (c.1885).
Incline at Joadja, c.1885 (August Tronier)
John Fell (industrialist)
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John Wilson Fell was an industrialist involved in the shale oil operations at Newnes, New South Wales and the establishment of two early oil refineries, on Gore Bay at Greenwich and at Clyde, both sub
Australian Kerosene Oil Company
…associated with John de Villiers Lamb (1833-1900) and his partners began to buy out other separate mining leases. In 1876, the partners brought in James Walter Fell (1847–1882), an expert in the shale oil industry, as a consultant at Joadja. Fell had been manager of Western Kerosene Oil Co. at Hartley Vale, manager…
John Fell c.1917.
Shale oil extraction plant at Newnes. The retorts are in the centre.
Advertisement of Australian-made 'motor spirit' (petrol), May 1917.
Oil tanks and pier at Tarakan,