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the UK gas industry and 1,064 privately owned and municipal gas companies were merged into twelve area gas boards each a separate body with its own management structure. Under the Gas Act 1948 the area boards were charged with three duties:
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To develop and maintain an efficient, co-ordinated and economical system of gas supply for their areas and to satisfy, so far as it is economic to do so, all reasonable demands for gas within their area.
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From the early 19th century the gas supply industry in the United
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To develop and maintain the efficient, co-ordinated and economical production of coke, other than metallurgical coke.
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was passed. The area boards became regions of the
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government reshaped the gas industry, enacting the Gas Act 1948. The act
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in 1913. The gas used in the 19th and early 20th centuries was
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but in the period 1967–77 coal gas supplies were replaced by
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The chairman of each area board was a member of the
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881:A History of the British Gas Industry
101:Reorganisation under the Gas Act 1972
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883:. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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499:East Midlands Gas Board
457:West Midlands Gas Board
432:of Yorkshire (including
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274:Public relations officer
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416:North-Eastern Gas Board
377:North Western Gas Board
110:British Gas Corporation
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268:Controller of services
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911:on January 21, 2012
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321:Name of area board
162:Gas and coke supply
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293:British Gas
289:Gas Council
210:natural gas
186:Gas Council
176:enacted by
153:natural gas
124:Area served
78:1 May 1949
63:Predecessor
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817:Supporters
811:Escutcheon
523:Derbyshire
486:Birmingham
474:Shropshire
398:Shropshire
394:Derbyshire
390:Cumberland
382:Lancashire
359:Cumberland
136:Key people
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702:Hampshire
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588:Wiltshire
564:Berkshire
460:Parts of
277:Secretary
106:Successor
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915:July 17,
861:July 17,
738:Somerset
580:Somerset
552:Cornwall
537:and the
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404:and the
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365:and the
338:Scotland
256:Chairman
220:In 1948
206:coal gas
198:coal gas
159:Services
149:Coal gas
145:Products
52:Industry
769:and of
665:Suffolk
657:Norfolk
610:and of
511:Rutland
192:History
90:Defunct
75:Founded
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799:Notes
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448:Wales
426:North
971:2021
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