Engineers, Managers and Politicians: The First Fifteen Years of Nationalised Electricity Supply in Britain

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction....Pages 1-4
Front Matter....Pages 5-5
Citrine’s Way....Pages 7-22
Meeting the Capacity Crisis....Pages 23-28
Half-Price Electricity?....Pages 29-38
Front Matter....Pages 39-39
Ministers and Mandarins....Pages 41-59
System Expansion: The Area Boards....Pages 60-75
Commercial Development: Pricing for Growth....Pages 76-93
Generation: Centralisation and Conservatism (1948–53)....Pages 94-110
Generation: The Brown Revolution (1954–7)....Pages 111-122
Labour Management under Public Ownership....Pages 123-138
Retrospect: Citrine, Self and the Management of Change....Pages 139-148
The North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board (1943–60)....Pages 149-157
Front Matter....Pages 159-159
Devolving Power....Pages 161-167
Coal, Oil and Nuclear Escalation....Pages 168-182
The New Men....Pages 183-190
Front Matter....Pages 191-191
The Electricity Council: Federalism and Finance....Pages 193-207
Area Boards: Independence, Overexpansion and the New Rationality....Pages 208-217
Incomes and Productivity: Planning for Growth?....Pages 218-227
Hinton: The Nuclear Retreat....Pages 228-244
The CEGB in Practice....Pages 245-265
Front Matter....Pages 191-191
A Scottish Alternative? (1955–64)....Pages 266-277
Epilogue....Pages 279-288
Back Matter....Pages 289-336