Download or read book Always under Pressure written by Malcolm E. Falkus and published by Springer. This book was released on 1988-06-18 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This non-technical, readable book traces the history of North Thames Gas from the nationalization of the gas industry in 1949 until privatization in 1986, a period which saw the industry change form a position in the 1950s where its survival was threatened.