Company History The story of electricity and the history of Johnson & Phillips have been linked for almost one and a quarter century. Johnso & Phillips started as a small company in London suburb, in 1875, for the manufacture and the sale of telegraph cable and the associated equipment’s. As the use of electricity increase, J&P expanded its activities to meet the need of this new industry, as early as 1905, J&P handled its first large switchboard contract, consisting of 6.6.KV remote control oil Circuit breaker. By 1918, they had a complete range of high tension oil circuit breakers and low tension. Switchboards. Some of the great supplied by J&P in 1918 is still in operation. Operating in Pakistan since 1948, the company was renamed Johnson & Phillips (PAKISTAN) Limited in 1958, and incorporated as a public limited Company, 1961.