'Electricity supply, electrical engineering and the Scottish economy in the interwar years' in A J G Cummings & T M Devine (eds), Industry, Business and Society in Scotland since 1700. Essays presented to Professor John Butt

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Examines the development and influence of the electricity supply industry from its beginnings in c1880 until 1930. In three sections which examine, viz: 1] growth of the industry, especially 1924-1930 and comparatively within the UK; 2] its influence on both the economy and society and especially its impact on major industrial sectors, 1924-30, and coal extraction; 3] the 'pattern of development' of the Scottish electrical engineering industry, 1924-30, and issues which explain its significant decline relative to the rest of UK