Always Under Pressure: A History of North Thames Gas Since 1949

ISBN-13: 9780333468197 / Angielski / Miękka / 1988 / 219 str.

Malcolm E. Falkus

Opis

This non-technical, readable book traces the history of North Thames Gas from the nationalization of the gas industry in 1949 until privatization in 1986, a period which saw the industry change form a position in the 1950s where its survival was threatened.

Spis treści

North Thames Gas - history and tradition; the new enterprise; the struggle for survival; new technology and new markets; the Canvey experiment and the beginnings of conversion; the conversion of central London; organizational change and the time of troubles; a headquarters at last; the Staines era - renaissance and reformation.