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Tariff structures
The rate of conversion - a study of costs outside the conversion division
The effect of temperature and seasonal pricing on the sales of coke to merchants
Control room decision making - aspect 1 - calculation of marginal costs - an aid to scheduling
Control room decision making - aspect 2 - Mark I forecasting model
Preliminary findings of the industrial survey
An experiment in cold-canvassing for domestic appliance sales
The bulk supply tariff: an exercise for North Thames Gas Board
Off-peak contract - the Slough trading estates power station
Control room decision making aspect 3 - control room organisation, operation and staff duties
The allocation of staff to showrooms by queuing theory - a technical report
An interruptible supply contract - the Slough trading estate's power station
An economic evaluation of the proposal to bring forward the conversion date for the Slough trading estate
Pre-conversion: an economic appraisal
Control room decision making - aspect 4: examination of a proposed simple hourly forecasting model
An investigation of price response in the domestic demand for gas
Control room decision making - aspect 5 - a simple computer based method for obtaining efficient forecasts of daily gas demands
Retail outlet project - first report
First report on the sales information system project
Retail outlet project second report costs and revenues
Problems in implementing a linear programming system for plant scheduling
Conversion and reversion of migrant appliances
An analysis of service and escapes on appliances converted to natural gas
Corporate planning department - an economic appraisal of moving Southend ICR and Mill Hill ICR into central London
Sales information system - second report
The development of rules at times of plant breakdown
How to use the linear programming solution to determine a day's plant schedule
Post-conversion call-backs and sweep-ups from domestic premises
Telephone switchboards in centralised service units
An analysis of appliance models and complaints from the post-conversion call-back enquiry form
Retail outlet project - review of progress
The economics of reversion
Vehicle scheduling
The merchandising effect of showrooms management report
The merchandising effect of showrooms - data report
The merchandising effect of showrooms - technical report
Conversion costs and sell-outs allowances
A study of the future gas plant requirements of the North Thames Gas Board
Control room decision making - aspect 9: risk analysis in towns gas production
The three -part bulk supply tariff and LNG
Warehouse location
A tentative assessment of the effects of relocating entral stores and appliance parts stores on the site of a possible new warehouse
Retail outlets project - guidelines for evaluating the retail outlet network
Retail outlets project - costs and revenues 1969 - 71
Determination of the size of a manual telephone switchboard
Transport working party report - summary
As above - part II
A stock control study in the central appliance parts store
A stock control study in the central appliance stores (technical report)
Problems in defining a measure of security
An economic leakage control policy for North Thames Gas Board
Report of the working party on project documentation
A stock control study into appliance parts held in conversion unit stores
Retail outlets project - an evaluation of the Board's retail outlet network
Management Services Directorate - Operational Research Department - plan of work
Domestic appliance sales statistics, 1968 - 72
Short-term plant scheduling - part 1: an introduction to linear programming
Short-term plant scheduling - management report
Issue priorities classification
Proposals for the location of district depots on Central Division
Evaluation of tenders for the 1973 leakage repair contract
[No report - distribution list only]
Project handbook
The problem area map
Plan of work, December 1972
An appraisal of the proposed Chobham Common to Laleham pipeline investment scheme
Diurnal storage planning
Operational Research contribution to the central stores project
Location of district depots on western areas
Location of district depots on north western area
Proposals for the location of district depots on eastern area
OR Department proposals of work for the Personnel Directorate
Plan of work, July 1973
Computer scheduling report
An attempt to re-schedule regular service contracts for Essex area
Results on the monitoring of the leakage repair contract LR 72
Operational Research in customer service
Proposals for the location of district depots for North Thames region
Education and training for management services
Vehicle replacement policy for small vans at North Thames Gas
Rates - a program to evaluate the effects of changes in take on stock levels of natural gas - user manual
Plan of work, March 1974
Evaluation of tenders for the distribution general works contract
Bromley-By-Bow central vehicle workshop and transport headquarters
Bromley-By-Bow central mainsland pipeline store
Bromley-By-Bow central vehicle workshop and transport headquarters
Bromley-By-Bow central mainland pipeline store
District depot - Kensal Green
District depot - Kensal Green - new building
Kensal Green area store
Kensal Green transport service centre
Grays district depot
Customer accounting replacement vehicles
Deployment of manpower in customer service
Criteria for the selection of lines for quality control
The evaluation of the leakage survey contract
The evaluation of the customer service directorate service contract 1975/6
Assessment of contractors' tenders
Plan of work, March 1975
Manpower planning work within the Operational Research Department
Deployment of customer service manpower - second report
Vehicle replacement policy
Centralisation of out-of-hours radio control
Operational Research Department - plan of work
An analysis of some manpower strategies
Vehicle costs
Manning levels
The costs associated with recruitment
Stanbdy fleets size
Plan of work
Customer service workload/manpower matching program user guide
Customer service workload/manpower matching program supervisors manual
Assessment of sessions
DGC 77 worksheet processing alternative computer systems
`Not written'
Profitability of central heating maintenance schemes
'Customer service - district staffing' (revised)
Plan of work
The strategy evaluation program - a management report
'Customer service district - staffing results for 1978/9' (highly confidential)
Customer service telephone bank manning levels for 1978/9
Evaluation of tenders for the 1978 customer service contract
'An investigation into INCA stock control' (no original)
'OR staff in North Thames Gas from 1967' [list of names, dates joined, dates left, length of service, subsequent employer]
Standby fleet size
Plan of work
Customer service telephone bank manning levels
Customer service district staffing - results for 1979/80
PET demonstration model (bulk appliance and meter store)
Vehicle replacement policy
Plan of work
Customer service telephone bank manning levels for 1980/81
Customer service district staffing report 1980 -81
Vehicle repair limits
Plan of work
Standby fleet size (revised)
Proposals for improving the performance of the print room
Review of employee absence
Vehicle replacement policy and repair limits
Review of stores strategy: a preliminary report
Microcomputer developments in North Thames Gas
Customer Service District Staffing - Results For 1981/82
Proposals for improving the performance of the print room
Customer service telephone bank manning levels for 1981/82
Vehicle replacement policy and repair limits
Weekend firm gas demand
Plan of work
Analysis of winter 1981/82
Analysis of proposed incentive bonus schemes
Computer bureaux usage 1981/82
Not deposited
Gas supply strategy winter 1981/82
Review of stores strategy: proposals for eastern area
Distribution maintenance stores requirements
Customer service telephone bank manning levels for 1982/83
Regional stores strategy: transmission material requirements
Review of stores strategy: proposals for Essex area
Plan of work
Analysis of winter 1982/83
Cost effectiveness of out-of-hours work in customer service
Telephone bank manning levels for 1983/84
A preliminary investigation of distribution workload planning
Gas supply strategy winter 1983/84
Evaluation of appliance delivery methods
Vehicle workshops resource planning
Vehicle workshops resource planning
ISIS forecasting and stock control - feasibility study
ISIS forecasting and stock control - feasibility study
Evaluation of appliance delivery methods - final report
Evaluation of appliance delivery methods - final report
Plan of work
Involvement in the 1985 distribution general works contract
Appliance stockholding costs
Monitoring DGC 82 summary of results
Review of INCA parameters
Telephone bank review 1984/85
ISIS forecasting, stock control and modelling - progress report
Centralisation of marketing emergency control
Stock level strategy for gas supply winter 1984/85
Documentation of distribution workload planning systems
Distribution workload planning recommendations and examinations of associated issues
A review of stock management
Economics of pre-assembly
Vehicle service centre catchment area
Updated documentation of distribution workload planning systems
Distribution workload planning recommendations and examination of associated issues
Estimation of trends in demand of stock items
Plan of work
Customer service telephone bank manning levels for 1985/86
Determination of appliance parts to stock at depot stores
Not deposited
Central vehicle workshop workload planning interim report
Investigation into possible models to assist in the evaluation of appliance purchasing and sales strategies
Customer service telephone bank short term forecasting of manning requirements
Operational Research Department Customer Service Telephone bank Standards of Service
Distribution material requirements - a final report
Vehicle replacement policy - 1985 review: technical report
District representation manning level study - analysis of data collected during the monitoring exercise
Vehicle replacement policy - 1985 review: management summary
Stock level strategy for gas supply winter 1985/86
Appraisal of INCA parameter review
Investigation into materials issue at Mill Hill depot store
Centralisation of out-of-hours radio control
Investigation into the uses of visual interactive simulations
Evaluation of the appliance delivery quota system trial
Central vehicle workshop: workload investigation
Plan of work
Evaluation of supplies priorities for future ISIS developments: interim report
Evaluation of supplies; priorities for future ISIS developments; final report
Operation of emergency control following districtisation
Service telephone review 1986/87
Review of tool stocking policy: interim report
Aspects of distribution transport problems
Appliance parts forecasting - method suitability
Ferrying, transporting and recovery study
Fleet sizing for towable compressors
Stock level strategy for gas supply winter 1986/87
Monitoring and control of new vehicle work
Appliance purchasing agreements 1986/87 - an interim monitoring system
Implementation of revised criteria for selecting appliance parts forecasting methods
Investigation into out-of-hours manning levels
Plan of work with appendices
Manning levels - interim report
Appliance sales forecasting feasibility study
Not deposited
Integrated district office manning levels Eastern Group report
Study into alternative strategies for the delivery of appliances - summary report
Study into alternative appliance delivery strategies
Clerical manning levels - a rule of thumb
Plan of work
Customer accounting clerk analysis
Monitoring Distribution General Works Contract (DGC) 87
Strategy Evaluation Program (SEP) - a guide to the structure
Results from the radio simulation model
Variability in gas bill production
briefing on analysis of diurnal swings for SEP
Report on strategies to use regional storage to absorb the cost of forecasting errors
Importing SEP
Not deposited
Transferring appliance sales phasing programs from the ICL
Expansion of the same day service unit on Richmond District
Estimating the demand in 2000/1
Effects of the new system of diurnal swing equations on the regional storage requirements
Note reads `never entered into the system'
Diurnal profiles
Plan of work
Cost of a change of DGC contractor
Strategies for the use of regional storage
Production of a benchmark tender for Engineering Period Contract (EPC) 90
North Thames/South Eastern (NT/SE) joint development demand forecasting project - OR report
Review of gas demand forecasting
Plan of work
An overview of the current methods for estimating accounts
Cash flow forecasting model
PRE patterns - initial investigation
Monitoring of the DGC87/EPC90 Changeover
PRE patterns - initial investigation
TQM - Managing into the `90s'
Criteria for return of appliance parts
Some observations on outage
Review of the Diurnal swing model after Winter 1990/91
Plan of work
'Plan of work' - Appendices A1, A2, A3, A4
Review of the Bayesian forecasting model after Winter 1991
The August 1991 wet gas pumping test: description, results and conclusions
Oil filming of water-sealed gas holders: recommendations based on other regions' experiences
Appliance parts stock control models - review of parameters
Standards of reports
Monthly low pressure storage requirements for 1994
Plan of work
'Plan of work' - Appendices A1, A2, A3, A4
Second visits
The development of debtors forecasting models and making provisions for bad debt
Strategy evaluation program [SEP] - report for the transmission design group
MEG conditioning: individual fogger analysis
Strategy evaluation program, second report for the transmission design group
Strategy evaluation program, third report for the transmission design group
Pumping of wet gas
SEP - Fourth report for the transmission design group
SEP - Fifth report for transmission design group
SEP - Summary report for transmission design group
The cost of time slot appointments