New Technology and New Markets

Malcolm Falkus
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Malcolm Falkus: University of New England

Chapter 4 in Always under Pressure, 1988, pp 61-88 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In the early 1950s few could have foreseen an era when coal would not form the basis of gas manufacture. In 1956 a report by the Chief Engineer, Jim Burns, on future plant requirements at Beckton still envisaged the necessity for new coal carbonisation plant into the foreseeable future. Even in 1960 the overwhelming bulk of North Thames gas was made from coal or coke. Yet, within the space of a very few years, the whole picture was transformed. New technology had made possible the use of oil feedstocks in revolutionary new types of plant, and by the second half of the decade coal was supplying a rapidly dwindling proportion of town gas. By this time, too, still further developments were under way with imported and domestic natural gas.

Keywords: Central Heating; Chief Engineer; Domestic Sale; Coal Carbonisation; Deputy Chairman (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1988
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-10316-4_4

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