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IN the War of 1914–18 the supply engineer put to the service of the State his knowledge of the habits and business of those who lived and worked within his area of supply, not only as an individual but also backed by all the resources of his undertaking. Faced to-day with a similar crisis, Mr. J. W. Beauchamp, of the Central Electricity Board, recalls in an article published in Electrical Industries of November, what the supply engineer did during 1914–18. His main object was to assist the Ministry of Munitions and the Coal Control by pooling stocks, giving help in repairing damage or speeding up power supplies and dealing with the more difficult problem at that time of retaining skilled staff. All theso were the subject of collective action.
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Function of the Electrical Supply Engineer in Wartime. Nature 144, 914 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144914a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/144914a0