A history of the British gas industry / Trevor I. Williams.
By: Williams, Trevor Illtyd.
Material type: BookPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1981Description: xvii, 304 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. + hbk.ISBN: 0198581572.Subject(s): Gas industry -- Great Britain -- HistoryDDC classification: 338.47665Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 338.47665 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00076646 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part I: The beginnings -- The prehistory of the gas industry -- The first commercial projects -- Part II: Development of the industry up to the first world war -- Manufacture and distribution -- The early structure of the industry -- Appliances -- Development of government control -- Management and workers -- The first world war -- Part III: The inter-war years -- Technical changes -- Changes in the structure of the industry -- Part IV: The second world war and moves towards nationalisation -- The gas industry and the second world war -- Plans for post-war reorganisation -- Part V: Nationalisation and its aftermath: the modern industry -- The post-war nationalisation programme -- Introduction of new manufacturing processes -- Natural gas -- North sea exploration and development -- Conversion -- Marketing North sea gas -- A new structure for a new industry -- Relations with government -- Industrial relations -- The industry and its customers -- Gas and the energy pattern.