Electricity before nationalisation : a study of the development of the electricity supply industry in Britain to 1948

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii Pioneers of Lighting and Power....Pages 1-35 The Years of Indecision....Pages 36-74 The Diagnosis of Failure....Pages 75-104 The National Grid and the Reform of Power Generation....Pages 105-149 Commercial Expansion and the Power Load....Pages 150-185 The Electrification of the Home: the Golden Age?....Pages 186-212 Distribution: the Drift into Stalemate....Pages 213-256 The Growth of Industrial Relations....Pages 257-288 War and Post-war Crisis....Pages 289-328 The Road to Nationalisation....Pages 329-356 Back Matter....Pages 357-467