Kensington and Knightsbridge Electric Supply Co
From Graces Guide
1891 Supplied electricity from 2 generation stations (at Kensington Court W, and Chapel Place, Knightsbridge), which was distributed by the d.c. system with accumulators at 200V[1]
1898 Rookes Evelyn Bell Crompton was engineer-in-chied[2]
1899 Kensington and Knightsbridge Electric Lighting Co and Notting Hill Electric Light Co started construction of the Wood Lane Power Station
1920 One of 9 London electricity supply companies who formed London Electricity Joint Committee (1920) in opposition to the schemes proposed by the Electricity Commissioners for London
1923 Main transmission lines were acquired by the London Electricity Joint Committee which also acquired the Wood Lane, Shepherd's Bush generating station[3].
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