BURNING TO SERVE
Written by Francis Goodall
Published by Landmark Publishing
in 1999
ISBN: 1901522652
BURNING TO SERVE
Written by Francis Goodall.
Stock no. 2106732
1st.
1999.
Hardback.
Slightly better than very good condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.
Selling Gas in Competitive Markets. Green boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos and illustrations. ISBN: 1901522652. Base of spine bumped else fine.
Front cover
Contents
- Origins of the gas industry: 1792 to the 1870s
- The challenges: 1870s and 1880s
- The structure of the industry in the 1880s
- Tentative moves to find new markets: 1875-1890
- Prepayment meters and the growth of the working class mass market from the 1890s
- Municipal trading in gas and electricity - early years
- Welsback lighting revitalises the gas lighting market
- The role of the appliance makers in creating new markets before 1914
- Financing expansion; was the appliance business profitable?
- Making better appliances: the role of research
- The gas supply industry between wars
- Between the wars: the appliance makers
- Prospects for structural change: 1930s and 1940s
- Nationalisation and other