B.E White was founded in 1899 by Bernard Edwin
White. Bernard White gained his knowledge of
electricity from working on the London
Underground in the late 1890's.  He was the first
person in Chobham to have electric lights and
soon he was installing lights for the local gentry. 
He worked from home in Chobham and then from
Brixton at the turn of the 20th century when his
company B.E. White Motor Haulage Contractor
and Electrical Engineer was thriving. He rented a
property in Pomeroy Street london until 1930 when
the present day factory was built in Tottenham.

The factory sits on a one acre site and took over a
year to build. There is a five ton gantry crane that
runs the length of the building, which is 300 ft long
by 50 ft wide.

The business has remained in the
family and now the forth generation is working
there.