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BURNING TO SERVE

by Francis Goodall

Published by Landmark Publishing. 1st. 1999

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.

Base of spine bumped else fine.

ISBN: 1901522652
Stock no. 2106732

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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

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