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SIR HAROLD HARTLEY chairman of the British National Comittee and International Executive Council of the World Power Conference, has accepted the chairmanship of the Electricity Supply Research Council set up by the British Electricity Authority. Other members who have accepted invitations to serve are: Sir Edward Appleton, Prof. F. E. Simon, Sir David Brunt, Prof. H. W. Melville, Sir Geoffrey Taylor, Mr. V. A. Pask and Mr. C. W. Marshall. Additional nominations will be made to represent the Electricity Boards. The terms of reference of the Council are: (a) to advise the central authority and area boards on specific problems relating to electricity supply ; (b) to keep under review matters affecting the supply of electricity and to advise the central authority and area boards on programmes and planning of research carried out over the whole field ; and (c) to make recommendations to the central authority on research which the Council considers it desirable to initiate.
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Electrical Supply Research Council. Nature 164, 214 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164214e0
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