Always Under Pressure. A history of North Thames Gas since 1949
Details:
- Author(s) Falkus, Malcolm E
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1988
- Pages 219pp; illus
- Publisher Macmillan
- Place Published Basingstoke
Topics:
- Name Public ownership & control inc nationalisation, municipalisation & privatisation
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Scholarly commissioned history, the only one to cover an individual gas board / region. Deals with it from nationalisation to privatisation. A broadly chronological account dealing with its inheritance from the private sector including a chapter largely devoted to Gas Light & Coke Co; introduction of national gas and the conversion programme; structural reorganisation under British Gas Plc; pathway to privatisation; etc