Generation: The Brown Revolution (1954–7)

Leslie Hannah
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Chapter 9 in Engineers, Managers and Politicians, 1982, pp 111-122 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract When Sir John Hacking decided to retire from the deputy chairmanship at the end of 1953, the old CEB promotional ladder would have indicated Pask as his successor, but Central Authority members opposed this and the Minister (who made the appointment) decided to bring in new blood from outside the BEA headquarters. The appointment went to Josiah Eccles, then chairman of the Merseyside and North Wales Board. He had a first in engineering from Queen’s University, Belfast, and before nationalisation had served as the head successively of the Edinburgh and the Liverpool Corporation electricity undertakings, gaining more experience of generation design and construction than his ex-CEB predecessor and colleagues. The CEB group which still dominated the chief engineer’s department found Eccles a more difficult taskmaster and sometimes resented his presence, but he was to prove a breath of fresh air, giving top level support to those within the department who were seeking changes over a wide range of policies. The time was, moreover, now ripe for considerable rethinking: the more serious capacity problems had been overcome and steel and other materials were more freely available, as the economy generally seemed to be achieving a full postwar recovery.

Keywords: Capital Cost; Central Authority; Technological Frontier; Steam Condition; High Thermal Efficiency (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1982
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-03446-8_9

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