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Chapter 2 in Engineers, Managers and Politicians, 1982, pp 7-22 from Palgrave Macmillan Abstract: Abstract Within a few months of Labour’s election victory, Herbert Morrison, who had overall charge of Labour’s nationalisation programme, confirmed the Government’s intention of nationalising electricity and other fuel industries. Emmanuel Shinwell, the Minister of Fuel and Power, started on the legislation for nationalising coal, and electricity nationalisation was relegated to the 1946/7 session of Parliament.1 The Electricity Bill then introduced followed in broad outline the plans foreshadowed by wartime working parties on the future of the industry, and, to the relief of the industry, confirmed that it would remain independent of coal and gas, and not be part of a National Fuel and Power Board. The 200 companies and 369 local authority undertakings, together with the Central Electricity Board and the nearly 300 power stations owned and operated by these organisations, were to be transferred to a new public body, the British Electricity Authority. (The industry unsuccessfully requested that ‘Supply’ should be included in the title to avoid confusion with the other ‘BEA’, British European Airways.) Keywords: Civil Servant; Labour Relation; Central Authority; Organise Committee; Chief Engineer (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-03446-8_2 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-03446-8_2 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Palgrave Macmillan Books from Palgrave Macmillan |
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