The British Electricity Authority (BEA) was established in 1948 with the nationalisation of the UK's electricity supply industry, as a result of the Electricity Act 1947. The BEA took over the operations of over 600 small power companies to form 14 area boards. 1948 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... Nationalization is the act of taking assets into state ownership. ... 1947 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
The new area boards were:
East Midlands Electricity Board (EMEB)
Eastern Electricity Board (EEB)
London Electricity Board (LEB)
Merseyside & North Wales Electricity Board (MANWEB)
Midlands Electricity Board (MEB)
North Eastern Electricity Board (NEEB)
North Western Electricity Board (NWEB)
South East Scotland Electricity Board
South Eastern Electricity Board (SEEBOARD)
South Wales Electricity Board (SWALEC)
South West Scotland Electricity Board
South Western Electricity Board (SWEB)
Southern Electricity Board (SEB)
Yorkshire Electricity Board (YEB)
As a result of the Electricity Reorganisation (Scotland) Act 1954, and partly to end confusion with the other BEA (British European Airways), the British Electricity Authority was replaced on 1 April 1955 by the Central Electricity Authority (CEA). At the same time, the two Scottish Area Boards were merged into the South of Scotland Electricity Board (SSEB). For alternate usages of BEA see Bea (disambiguation). ... 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Central Electricity Authority (CEA) (at first, for a brief period, known as the British Electricity Authority or BEA) was the body that ran the UKs newly nationalised electricity supply industry from 1947. ...
Reference
UK Competition Commission Report on South of Scotland Electricity Board, 1986
The electricity supply industry in Britain was nationalised by the Electricity Act of 1947, as part of the sweeping programme of nationalising the 'commanding heights' of the economy carried out by the 1945-51 Labour Government under Prime Minister Clement Attlee.
Following the war, the electric utility industry in Japan was vertically integrated into nine core utilities, each devoted to a system to ensure a stable supply of high-quality electricity.
The history of Britishelectricity supply from the late nineteenth century to 1968 is summarised in R. Kelf-Cohen, Twenty Years of Nationalisation: The British Experience, Macmillan, 1969, especially Chapter 4.
On top of this, the British have still to end the organised crime around Basra, which is terrifying the city's largely Shia Muslim inhabitants and preventing the rehabilitation of the great oilfields around the city.
British soldiers are called in to fix sewage leaks and water-supply pipes.
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