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Quite simple really, domestic use and market share. Many properties which are rented do not allow high pressure cylinders and many actually banned all gas cylinders from their properties and this was challenged in court as many people had motorhomes or caravans, gas barbeques and even gas powered camping lanterns and domestic blow torches, just before it went to court several councils relented and set a precedent by action and allowed gas cylinders, many followed a set pressure cap and welding gas suppliers adapted and supplied gases just below this pressure. Many put maximum cylinder sizes also as they were allegedly trying to prevent large industrial cylinders being used in domestic homes; it was also claimed (allegedly) by large industrial gas suppliers that many of their bottles were being stolen to order and being sold to private users, hence the chipping of bottles.
I'm calling BS on this one...Not really Parm as the case was submitted to the High Court and accepted for a hearing, but dropped before it got there so High Court records may show it, I know locally the council had to tear up many tenancy agreements and remove these clauses from council house tenants and I did actually see some of them as a previous employer had many employees from a nearby council estate and it was the talk of the premises for several weeks.
These contracts were rewritten with a clause restricting maximum bottle pressures to 175 bar with a maximum volume of 15 litres water capacity.
I am also aware that another employee living in a housing association property also had the clauses removed from his contract and his stated that this was inline with recent council amendments but his were limited to 175 bar with a water capacity of 20 litres.