World's biggest gasworks stops production. Gas production at Beckton gasworks the largest in the world was suspended last night (Sunday). The strike of 2000 maintenance engineers at 11 , London gas works has caused nearly all available stocks gas to be exhausted, and London housewife this morning abandoned the normal Monday clothes wash. Some cafes were unable to provide hot meals, others improvised emergency cooking arrangements on oil stoves and feel kitchens. Photo shows, a view of the gasworks at Beckton, this morning , (Monday), showing deflated gas holders, almost emptied of gas. 12 August 1946