IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/pal/palchp/978-1-349-10316-4_4.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

New Technology and New Markets

In: Always under Pressure

Author

Listed:
  • Malcolm Falkus

    (University of New England)

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.

Suggested Citation

  • Malcolm Falkus, 1988. "New Technology and New Markets," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Always under Pressure, chapter 4, pages 61-88, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-10316-4_4
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-10316-4_4
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-10316-4_4. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.palgrave.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.