Summary

Registered in England in 1905, control of the company transferred to Australia in 1921. At the same time the company acquired the electricity related rights of the Electric Lighting and Traction Company of Australia in Adelaide and Port Adelaide.

The company was "nationalised", that is, it became a South Australian state government authority and was delisted from the Stock Exchange in 1947.

Related entries

Timeline

  South Australian Electric Light & Motive Power Company
       1899 - 1921 Electric Lighting and Traction Company of Australia
             1905 - 1947 Adelaide Electric Supply Company Limited
                   1947 - Electricity Trust of South Australia

Archival resources

State Records of South Australia

• Adelaide Electric Supply Company Limited/Electricity Trust of South Australia records, 1897 - 1998; State Records of South Australia. Details

Published resources

Books

• Jubilee souvenir of public electricity supply in South Australia 1899-1949: S.A. Electric Light & Motive Power Co, the British Electrical Engineering Co Ltd, Electric Light & Traction Co, Adelaide Electric Supply Co Ltd, the Electricity Trust South Australia: 1899-1949, Advertiser Printing Office, Adelaide, 1949, 16 pp. Details
• Wakelin, D, Fifty years of progress : Being a history of the foundation and developments of the Adelaide Electric Supply Co, Adelaide, 1946. Details